Brigadier Arun Sahgal, PhD is a retired Indian Army officer and a leading national security strategist. He is the Executive Director of the Forum for Strategic Initiative and a Distinguished Fellow at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE)’s School of Geopolitics. He served 36 years in the Indian Army, focusing on long-term strategy and military planning. He has been  the head of the Centre for Strategic Studies and Simulation at the United Service Institution of India (USI), and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). He was also a member of the National Task Force on Net Assessment and Simulation, of the Indian National Security Council (NSC), and continues to support them through consultancy assignments. He holds a PhD in Strategic Studies and conducts strategic gaming and simulation exercises.