Gurpreet S. Khurana

Maritime Security Expert, Indian Ocean and Indo-Pacific

Captain (Ret.) Dr. Gurpreet S. Khurana served 35 years in the Indian Navy as a gunnery and missile warfare specialist and commanded two warships, retiring in January 2023 as Professor and Directing Staff at the Naval War College in Goa. Commissioned in July 1988, he took part in operations during the Sri Lanka civil war from 1987 to 1991 and in the 1999 Kargil War, and in 2002 he was the first commanding officer of the fast attack craft INS Tarmugli. He worked at the Maritime Doctrine and Concept Centre in Mumbai from 2009 to 2014 and compiled the Indian Maritime Doctrine 2009. He was Executive Director of the National Maritime Foundation in New Delhi from 2014 to 2019, holds a doctorate in defence studies, and is the author of Porthole, a reference work on geopolitical, strategic and maritime terms.