Indian Maritime Doctrine 2025:
The Chief of the Naval Staff released the Indian Maritime Doctrine 2025 on India Navy Day, aligning it with India’s long-term strategic vision and maritime priorities. The Indian Maritime Doctrine 2025 is the Navy’s apex guidance document that defines how India plans, prepares, and operates across the entire maritime conflict spectrum. It outlines the Navy’s strategic principles, roles, force employment, capability development, and its approach to emerging maritime challenges .First issued in 2004 and updated in 2009 and 2015, the 2025 edition reflects major changes in India’s maritime environment and strategic outlook over the past decade 2025 Edition: Formally recognises “no-war, no-peace” as a distinct operational category, acknowledging the grey zone between peace and conflict as a critical space where contemporary maritime competition increasingly occurs. The doctrine prioritises jointness and interoperability among the three services to support theaterisation. Integrates lessons on grey-zone, hybrid, and irregular warfare, and multi-domain threats. The doctrine emphasises emerging domains like space, cyber, and cognitive warfare. Promotes adoption of uncrewed systems, autonomous platforms, and advanced technologies.
