Securing India’s Digital Frontier: Building Cyber Resilience, AI-Driven Defense, and Digital Sovereignty in an Era of Great Power Competition

Introduction: Strategic Context Cyberspace has emerged as one of the defining battlegrounds of twenty-first century geopolitical competition. Alongside land, sea, air, and space, the cyber domain now shapes military operations, intelligence collection, economic competitiveness, technological leadership, and national resilience. State-sponsored cyber campaigns, ransomware syndicates, supply-chain compromises, information warfare, and AI-enabled cyber operations have transformed cybersecurity…