The National Maritime Foundation (NMF) hosted Mr Nico Lange, Senior Fellow at the Munich Security Conference @munsecconf, and the Centre for European Policy Analysis @cepaorg, accompanied by Mr Adrian Haack, Director of @kasinindia, and Mr Ashish Gupta (Head of Programme, KAS India). VAdm Pradeep Chauhan (Director-General, NMF), delivered a compelling presentation on #Indian #Maritime Imperatives […]
The National Maritime Foundation was honoured to host, for the first time, Mr Thorsten Benner (Director, Global Public Policy Institute – GPPi) and Mr Jakob Hensing (Researcher, GPPi), for an engaging discussion on the protection of critical maritime infrastructure—ranging from undersea cables to pipelines—and the role of emerging technologies in the maritime domain. Commodore Manish […]
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The National Maritime Foundation was honoured to host the French delegation comprising Colonel Emmanuel Peltriaux (Defence Attaché), Commander Bui (Naval Attaché), and Mr Ilan Gasser (Intern at the Embassy of France in India). Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan (Director General, NMF), Commodore Manish Sinha (Executive Director, NMF), and Ms Saaz Lahiri (Research Associate) engaged in a […]
The fifth of April of each year is commemorated as National Maritime Day and seeks to draw global attention to issues principally related to the multiple facets of mercantile shipping and fishing. This article seeks to draw the attention of its readers to a somewhat lesser-known phenomenon that is nevertheless intimately related to the mercantile […]
Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan, AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Retd), Director-General, National Maritime Foundation, delivered a presentation and engaged in an insightful interaction with the visiting delegation from the US National War College (NWC), led by Mr Greg Macris, Department of State Instructor, and Capt Timothy Brosnan. The discussion focused on deepening India-US maritime cooperation, […]
Rear Admiral RS Dhaliwal, NM, IN, delivered an insightful lecture on “1971 India-Pakistan War: Maritime Resource Mobilisation and Strategic Perspective,” providing a deep dive into the strategic and operational aspects of maritime resource mobilisation during the war. His analysis offered valuable perspectives on India’s naval strategy, highlighting key lessons in maritime security and preparedness.
The National Maritime Foundation (NMF), in partnership with the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam (DAV), successfully conducted the inaugural NMF-DAV Seminar in Ha Noi on 27 March 2025. Focused on “Promoting Maritime Security and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific,” the seminar marked a key milestone in the growing partnership between the two institutions under the 2024 […]
Mr Soham Agarwal, Associate Fellow, National Maritime Foundation, participated in a panel at the NATO–India Youth Conference, where he shared insights on potential opportunities for NATO–India collaboration and underscored the importance of youth-led discourse in shaping strategic partnerships.
Ms Saaz Lahiri, Research Associate at the National Maritime Foundation (NMF), had the privilege of presenting the NMF’s Track 1.5 perspectives on India–EU maritime security cooperation during the working lunch of the Fourth Track One India–EU Maritime Security Dialogue. As a longstanding knowledge partner of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India, the […]
Rear Admiral Monty Khanna (Retd) – ‘Dabolim Diaries’ Issue No 12 dated 25 Mar 2025 In 2015, Pakistan signed a contract with China Shipbuilding & Offshore International Co. Ltd (CSOC), for eight S-26 Class submarines at an estimated cost of between four to five billion U.S. dollars. Termed as the Hangor Class Submarine Programme, this […]
Author: Helen Scales. Grove Press UK, 2024. 266 pages, Rs. 948, ISBN: 978-I-8047I-051-7 The book, What the Wild Sea Can Be, which has been longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, has been authored by Dr Helen Scales, who is a marine biologist, writer, and broadcaster, and whose books have been adapted for stage and […]