Editor’s Note The strategic partnership model has been announced after considerable delay since the time when Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016 was released in the public domain. Howe... Read more
Editor’s Note The Standing Committee for Defence has the onerous role of advising about the right amount of allocation under the Defence Head and optimal utilisation of allocated funds by th... Read more
Editor’s Note The armed forces are faced with a high degree of obsolescence in their inventories. The combat potential of the forces have suffered a serious downslide over the years. The bud... Read more
Editor’s Note The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) clearing projects at the trot after years of sloth is no doubt very heartening news. But, Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) isn’t exactly the... Read more
Editor’s Note The Strategic Partnership model was to be a part and parcel of DPP-2016 when it was released at DefExpo earlier this year in Goa. However, even after entrusting it to a task fo... Read more
There is something quite inexplicable about management of capital budget allocated to the armed forces. As a result, despite spending more than 5 lakh crore between 2002-03 and 2015-16, crit... Read more
Inadequacy of budgetary allocation for defence is a perennial refrain in the strategic discourse in India. For a country that faces multiple security challenges, defence spend of less than 2... Read more
