
Navy Capt R.S Sawan
Navies and Security Provision

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 Ofcer and has also been the Executive Ofcer 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 Quantication’. 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- Pacic, military strategic and operational concepts applicable to the maritime domain, and nuclear deterrence.
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Wednesday 16th Oct. 2024
NAVIES AND SECURITY PROVISION
INDIA
The evolving role of the Indian Navy in the Indian Ocean: Focus on NW Indian Ocean