Rear Admiral Shrikhande is a graduate of the Soviet, Indian and US Naval War colleges and has commanded three ships and been defense attaché in Australia and South Pacific. In flag rank he headed naval intelligence, was chief of staff of the Indian Navy’s training command and part of the strategic forces command. He teaches at several PME and other institutions on strategy, operational art, force planning, military history and the Peloponnesian war and has participated in track 2 conferences. He was a senior Maitri fellow at ANCORS, Wollongong University in 2024–25 researching cooperative maritime trade protection.

Articles by Sudarshan Shrikhande

A nonbinding 2019 U.N. vote to restore Diego Garcia to Mauritius has cast doubt on the future of the U.S. air base

The Indian Ocean Region 2019

By Rear Admiral Sudarshan Shrikhande, Indian Navy (Retired)
June 2025
China is here to “stay, play, and have a say” (as this author has written elsewhere). The intertwining of continental and maritime strategies underwritten by the scale and ambition of ...