Pranoti Bankar holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Defence and Strategic Studies from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. Her research interests include international relations, geopolitics, strategic affairs, space security, defence policy, and emerging technologies. Her Master's dissertation, ‘A Study of China's Space Strategy and Its Implications on Global Security’, examined the strategic dimensions of China's expanding space capabilities. She completed a research internship with the Centre for New Age Warfare Studies (CNAWS), where she contributed to the Pakistan Political Developments Team and published an article on the Pakistan–China strategic nexus. She also served as a Research Content Writer Intern at The Indian Netizens (TINS), authoring a research article on India's space strategy that is currently awaiting publication. She is committed to producing rigorous, evidence-based, and policy-oriented research on contemporary security and strategic issues.
Contemporary conflict increasingly features a mix of cyber tools, disinformation, psychological operations, other sub deeper instruments shilling economic pressure with traditional military capabilities. In a digitally linked country such a...
