<h1>Information warfare reshapes joint warfighting and strategic posture, affecting Europe's stability and India's diplomatic balancing.</h1> A defence monograph assesses the Russia-Ukraine conflict's effects on Europe and India, highlighting geopolitical realignments, energy security challenges, Indo Russian relations, India's diplomatic balancing and NATO's Indo Pacific orientation. The accompanying journal issue analyzes information warfare's role in joint warfighting-cyber, psychological and electronic operations-examining AI and cyber tools, adversarial tactics, national security challenges and the need to integrate information warfare into C4ISR for enhanced joint force effectiveness.