Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam is an accomplished military historian and the author of India's Wars: A Military History, 1947-1971 and its sequel India's Wars: Full Spectrum, 1972-2020. Subramaniam was the President's Chair of Excellence in National Security Affairs at the National Defence College, New Delhi from February 2021 to March 2023, and a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Asia Center and the Changing Character of War Programme, Oxford University and Visiting Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is currently a Visiting Faculty at Kautilya School of Public Policy, Hyderabad and several war colleges across the three services.