Sri Lanka, Aug. 19 -- President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's directive to integrate the research and development arms of the Army, Navy, and Air Force marks a long-overdue shift toward modernising Sri Lanka's national security architecture. For a strategically located island nation confronting hybrid risks-from maritime trafficking and cyber threats to geopolitical friction in the Indian Ocean-fragmented intelligence is a vulnerability. Expanding this tri-service fusion into a multi-agency National Research Centre will preserve crucial institutional memory, bridge operational silos, and convert decades of hard-won lessons into proactive, evidence-based foresight

"Better Late Than Never"

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's direction to i...