Abhijit Singh is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. Commissioned in the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy in July 1994, he is a specialist in Gunnery and Weapons Systems and has served onboard frontline ships. An erstwhile Research Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation, Cdr Abhijit also assisted the late Vice Admiral GM Hiranandani (Retd) in the authorship of the third volume of Indian Naval History, “Transition to Guardianship”. He has written extensively on littoral security in the Indian Ocean Region, including papers on the Iranian and Pakistani naval forces and the evolution of the Indian Navy’s expeditionary outlook.