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@article{185474,
        author = {Shivam Jaiswal},
        title = {Political Economy of National Security Communication: Reporting Conflict, Defence Procurements, and Strategic Deals steering Operation Sindoor},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {5},
        pages = {1557-1564},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=185474},
        abstract = {In the evolving theatre of the twenty-first-century Republic, where the rhetoric of sovereignty entwines with the circuitry of communication, the Political Economy of National Security Communication emerges as a locus of profound contestation between knowledge, power, and representation. This inquiry ventures into that intricate interstice wherein the reportage of conflict, the narration of defence procurements, and the orchestration of strategic deals converge to fabricate a discursive edifice of state legitimacy. The spectacle of Operation Sindoor, a tri-service trans-frontier retaliation sanctified by media acclamation becomes not merely an episode in martial history but a paradigmatic emblem of how contemporary defence journalism transubstantiates warfare into ideology, technology into theology, and information into instrumentality.
Through the prism of the Political Economy of Communication, Critical Military Studies, and the Media–Industrial Complex, this study anatomises the processes by which the media does not merely chronicle the logic of deterrence but consecrates embedding militarism within the cultural psyche as a civic virtue. The coverage of Operation Sindoor, suffused with exaltations of “Atmanirbhar warfare” and paeans to technological nationalism, betrays an epistemic choreography wherein the press becomes both witness and architect of the state’s self-narration. Herein, the journalist’s pen functions not as a sceptical scalpel but as an anointing brush, baptising national security with the varnish of moral inevitability.
This analysis contends that defence journalism in India operates as an ideological relay within the triadic nexus of state, media, and industry, a triune apparatus that perpetuates the mythos of strategic autonomy even as it obscures the dialectics of dependence and dissent. The invocation of Operation Sindoor in public discourse exemplifies how communicative practices morph into instruments of power reproduction: manufacturing consent, normalising exorbitant military expenditure, and aestheticizing the machinery of war under the banner of patriotic modernity. The narrative of deterrence thus becomes the lingua sacra of the Republic’s political economy, wherein the flows of capital, technology, and affect converge to sustain both the commerce of arms and the commerce of belief. The study situates the national security communication within a broader civilisational prerogatives of nationalism wherein the logos of security are mediated through the idioms of spectacle and sanctity, reconfiguring the architecture of democratic accountability.},
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        month = {October},
        }