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.
