Operation Sindoor and its Aftermath

About the book: India’s Operation Sindoor, in response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, marked a decisive inflection point in India-Pakistan strategic dynamics. Articulating a new security doctrine, the Indian armed forces deployed advanced capabilities to strike the terrorist infrastructure and military installations in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. This was the most extensive military exchange between the two countries since the 1971 India-Pakistan war. The robust military campaign also underscored diplomatic challenges for India’s foreign policy establishment. In this curated volume, experts from the Observer Research Foundation offer incisive analyses of the strategic, military, and diplomatic facets of developments in April-May 2025. ABOUT THE EDITORS Professor Harsh V Pant is Vice President - Studies and Foreign Policy at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is a Professor of International Relations with King’s India Institute at King’s College London. He is also Director (Honorary) of Delhi School of Transnational Affairs at Delhi University. Professor Pant’s current research is focussed on Asian security issues. His most recent books include India and the Gulf: Theoretical Perspectives and Policy Shifts (Cambridge University Press), India and Global Governance: A Rising Power and Its Discontents (Routledge), Politics and Geopolitics: Decoding India’s Neighbourhood Challenge (Rupa), America and the Indo-Pacific: Trump and Beyond (Routledge), New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (Cambridge University Press), India’s Nuclear Policy (Oxford University Press), The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy (Palgrave Macmillan), and Handbook of Indian Defence Policy (Routledge). He writes regularly for various Indian and international media outlets. Sameer Patil is Director, Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation. Based out of ORF’s Mumbai centre, his work focuses on the intersection of technology and national security. Additionally, he researches India’s national security priorities, counter-terrorism, and regional security. He serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity and RUSI UK’s Global Partnership for Responsible Cyber Behaviour Advisory Board. He is also the dissertation advisor at the Naval War College, Goa. Dr Patil has previously worked at the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India and Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations.