India, March 1 -- Within sections of India's strategic and intelligence establishment, a quiet but increasingly structured debate is underway over what some describe as a structural gap in the country's national security architecture. The concern is not about kinetic capability or counter-terror response, both of which are regarded as institutionally mature, but about the absence of a dedicated, centralised institutional mechanism for information and disinformation warfare at the strategic level.

These discussions have gained more traction post Operation Sindoor with some sections suggesting that while India won the war decisively and achieved its stated objectives, the same was not achieved as far as conveying this to the domestic and g...