Captain Ranendra Singh Sawan was commissioned in the Indian Navy on 01 July 1996. He is a graduate of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, and has specialised in Navigation and Direction (ND). He has served on four Indian Navy ships as Navigating Of􀃞cer and has also been the Executive Of􀃞cer of a Missile Vessel. His sea command assignments include an Interceptor Craft of the Indian Coast Guard, and an Antisubmarine Patrol Vessel. He has also served in operational appointments ashore which includes a staff tenure at the Naval Headquarters in New Delhi. He has also been a Directing Staff at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, India. Captain Sawan has contributed papers and articles in various professional journals and was also selected as a Visiting Navy Fellow at the Sea Power Centre, Australia in 2020. He participated in the Comprehensive Security Cooperation Course (CSC 22-3) in 2022 at the DKI-APCSS, Hawaii. He is a Ph.D. (Defence and Strategic Studies) candidate at the Naval War College, Goa, and is working on a thesis titled ‘India’s Minimum Deterrence Posture in the South Asian Context: A Study on Credibility and Quanti􀃞cation’. He also holds an MPhil (Defence and Strategic Studies) degree from the University of Madras. He is currently appointed at the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi as a Research Fellow. His areas of research interest include maritime security cooperation in the Indo- Paci􀃞c, military strategic and operational concepts applicable to the maritime domain, and nuclear deterrence.