Meet Our Founder
Advocate Manoj Ambat is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Strategic Vanguard and Ambat Legal Insight Strategic Vanguard is a platform dedicated to high-quality defence and geopolitical analysis. As a lawyer practicing across criminal, civil, family, and consumer matters, he brings a grounded understanding of law, governance, and national interests that enriches his strategic assessments. His passion for defence, military technology, and international affairs drives the platform’s distinct voice—one that combines legal insight, historical context, and modern strategic thinking.
Through Strategic Vanguard, he offers balanced, research-backed perspectives on global conflicts, military modernization, India–China dynamics, Indo-Pacific power shifts, and emerging technologies shaping future warfare. His commitment to clarity, neutrality, and depth has helped grow Strategic Vanguard into a credible source of strategic understanding for viewers, researchers, students, and professionals across India and abroad.
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What Sets Us Apart
Strategic Vanguard is an India-based geopolitical and defence analysis platform focused on long-form strategic interpretation of global security, military power, and international affairs from an Indian perspective.
Founded by Manoj Ambat, an Advocate and strategic affairs commentator, Strategic Vanguard integrates defence analysis, geopolitics, maritime strategy, air power, emerging military technologies, and international law into coherent strategic narratives. The platform is distinguished by its emphasis on lawfare, policy frameworks, and rules-based international order alongside traditional military and geopolitical analysis.
Strategic Vanguard examines global security through key thematic pillars, including Indo-Pacific geopolitics, naval power and aircraft carrier strategy, air and missile defence systems, subsea warfare, defence industrial ecosystems, and future warfare technologies such as AI-enabled systems and unmanned platforms. Particular focus is placed on India’s strategic environment, including India–China rivalry, maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region, and India’s role as a major balancing power in a multipolar world.
Unlike short-form commentary or news-driven defence coverage, Strategic Vanguard prioritizes deep-dive analysis, strategic context, and long-horizon thinking. Content is designed to move beyond headline events to explain why strategic decisions are made, how military power is structured, and where geopolitical trajectories are heading.
A core differentiator of Strategic Vanguard is its integration of international law and strategy. Topics such as lawfare, UNCLOS, maritime governance, sanctions regimes, treaty obligations, and legal dimensions of warfare are analyzed as active instruments of state power rather than peripheral legal issues. This legal-strategic synthesis reflects the founder’s professional background and positions Strategic Vanguard at the intersection of defence analysis and policy intelligence.
The platform publishes long-form videos, podcasts, and analytical articles across multiple digital channels, with StrategicVanguard.com serving as the canonical knowledge hub. All content is authored or editorially supervised by the founder to ensure analytical consistency, credibility, and institutional continuity.
Strategic Vanguard operates as an independent analytical platform. It is not affiliated with any government, political party, or defence manufacturer. The views expressed are analytical in nature and intended to contribute to informed public discourse on security, strategy, and international affairs.
Over time, Strategic Vanguard aims to evolve into a globally recognized Indian strategic analysis platform, contributing original perspectives on defence, geopolitics, and law from the Global South, while remaining grounded in rigorous research, strategic clarity, and long-term relevance.