Publications

India’s AI Power in a Distributed and Uneven Technological Order: 

Boundary Control, Strategic Autonomy, and Cognitive Security 

This research report examines India’s emerging AI power through the interaction of usable national capacity, technological dependence, boundary control, strategic autonomy, and cognitive security. It argues that India’s position is best understood as a distributed and vertically uneven mixed-control system: strong software capacity, digital public infrastructure, multilingual public technology, a large technical workforce, expanding compute access, and globally distributed technical networks coexist with dependence on externally controlled upstream technologies. The report distinguishes access from mobilizable capability, territorial presence from control, boundary power from boundary autonomy, and systemic influence from narrower bilateral effects. It concludes that India’s long-term AI power will depend on conversion, substitutability, resilient public infrastructure, selective boundary control, and the ability to preserve agency without full technological autarky.

From Detection to Depletion: 

Cost-Exchange Limits in the Russia–Ukraine Drone War

This research report develops a Minimum Viable, Auditable framework for evaluating counter-drone sustainability in the Russia–Ukraine drone war. It shifts assessment from intercept-centric measures toward cost-exchange sustainability, loss suppression, and mission-outcome preservation, using indicators such as CER, OLER, CER*obs, CPLAobs, KAPR, and KAPS.