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Abhijnan Rej

Abhijnan Rej

Abhijnan Rej was Security & Defense Editor at The Diplomat and Director of Research at Diplomat Risk Intelligence.

His primary areas of interest are Southern Asian security, Indian defense and foreign policies, emerging technologies and military strategy.

Rej’s work has appeared in The Washington Quarterly, the US Army War College’s online journal War Room, War on the Rocks, the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter, National Interest (online), Global Policy (online), Wired (online), Journal of Physics: A, and Contemporary Mathematics, along with numerous think-tank occasional papers, policy briefs, and book chapters. He was previously Senior Fellow, Strategic Studies, at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. Rej also has significant work experience as a quantitative researcher in academia and the corporate sector.

He has written for virtually all major Indian English-language media outlets, and has been quoted by the Economist, Reuters, Voice of America, CNBC, The Nation, The Australian, China Global Television Network, and Dawn, among others.

Twitter: @AbhijnanRej

Posts by Abhijnan Rej
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November 17, 2020

Are Robot Dogs Coming to Your Street Anytime Soon? Probably Not.

By Abhijnan Rej
Robotics firm Boston Dynamics is changing hands again, highlighting the difficulties of commercializing all-terrain mobile robots.
November 14, 2020

DARPA Awards Contract to 5 Companies Under Aerial Combat Evolution Program

By Abhijnan Rej
This follows the August AlphaDogfight trials which saw an AI system beat a human pilot in a simulated dogfight.

November 13, 2020

Military AI: In Deep Learning We Trust?

By Abhijnan Rej
The Pentagon has ambitious plans for riding the AI wave – but some of it sounds familiar.

November 12, 2020

Pompeo to Embark on Foreign Tour Again

By Abhijnan Rej
The U.S. secretary of state’s Europe and Middle East tour comes amid baseless insinuations about the November 3 election made by Trump – and Pompeo himself.

November 11, 2020

US Marine Raiders Arrive in Taiwan to Train Taiwanese Marines

By Abhijnan Rej
Marine special forces – both Taiwanese but also American – will play a crucial role in defeating a large-scale Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
November 10, 2020

A Former US Army Officer Examines the World View of the Indian Military

By Abhijnan Rej
In a new book, a former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency officer dissects perceptions and beliefs of Indian armed forces officers – and comes to some stark conclusions.

November 10, 2020

Checkbook in Hand, India Continues its Maldives Outreach

By Abhijnan Rej
The Indian foreign secretary’s visit to the Maldives is to follow up on India’s deepening commitments in the island nation.
November 09, 2020

Australia Combats China’s Interference Amid Deep Discord in Relations

By Abhijnan Rej
The recent arrest of a community leader on a foreign interference charge comes as Australia-China commercial relations inch toward the rock bottom.

November 07, 2020

India and the Philippines Must Focus on Climate Change and Disaster Management

By Abhijnan Rej
Greater cooperation and dialogue around softer issues will pave way for greater strategic cooperation.

November 07, 2020

Pakistan Peoples Party Leader Disavows Nawaz Sharif Comments About the Army

By Abhijnan Rej
With this latest development, the future of the 11 opposition parties’ alliance looks bleak.

November 05, 2020

US Plans to Patrol the Moon – Though Not Literally

By Abhijnan Rej
The Cislunar Highway Patrol System experiment seeks to extend space domain awareness to deep space, as the United States eyes the moon.
November 05, 2020

German Defense Minister Continues Her Indo-Pacific Campaign

By Abhijnan Rej
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer imagines a larger role for her country in the region, though in prudent terms.

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