Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at IDSA from September 2016 to June 2018

Colonel Vikrant Suresh Deshpande joined IDSA as a Research Fellow in September 2016. He is a serving Army officer from the Infantry and has significant experience in various Counter Insurgency and Counter Terrorism operations in the North East and Jammu & Kashmir. He has also served as an Assistant Military Attache in the Indian Embassy in Nepal. An MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Devi Ahilyabai University, his research focuses on ‘Notions of Victory and its Implications on Capability Development of the Armed Forces’.