Parwinder SandhuNew Delhi, March 2 -- Emphasising that decades of field experience form the backbone of his organisation's strategic foresight, Tobby Simon, Founder and President of Synergia, has said the think tank's predictions and policy interventions are rooted in hands-on operational work rather than purely academic research.

"About 40 years ago, most of our work that we did for the first 20 years was in the field. This means that a lot of the insights that we have built comes from the work that we have done as a practitioner, be it in offence, defence, intelligence, counterintelligence, security, human security," Simon said on Monday.

Simon was addressing the media ahead of the 10th edition of the Synergia Conclave 2026, slated to b...