Make In India: Maximising The Dividends
MAKE IN INDIA: MAXIMISING THE DIVIDENDS Editor’s Note The Ministry of Defence has shed its image of being an organization that was infamous for cancelling RFIs and blacklisting companies. It... Read more
Need for Indigenization Of Defence Technology and 100 Per Cent FDI In Defence Manufacturing
Need for Indigenization Of Defence Technology and 100 Per Cent FDI In Defence Manufacturing To be a world power one has to be self reliant economically and in the field of Defence manufactu... Read more
Pervasive Intangible Challenges for the Indian Navy
Editor’s Note The author expresses the apprehension that while tangible challenges that the Indian Navy’s new Chief of Naval Staff faces are issues that often find great focus, intangibles o... Read more
Enhanced FDI In Defence : A Game Changer
Editor’s Note The Defence Public Sector Undertakings have not been able to satisfy its clients, the Indian Armed Forces, with its products. With policies that have neither found favour with... Read more
Wider Connotations Of Surgical Strike In Our Environment
Editor’s Note A strategic riposte across the border, actuated by a Pakistani attack on the Indian Army’s base at Uri, J&K, has shattered some myths and bluffs that have governed India-Pa... Read more
Editor’s Note The recently conducted raids by the Indian Special Forces is an expression of India redefining its strategy in dealing with Pakistan. While bleeding even now from the 1000 cut... Read more
Retribution: Made In India, Felt By Pakistan
Editor’s Note The cross-border raids across the Line of Control in J&K by Indian Special Forces undertaken by a country that has practiced enough restraint in its riposte to Pakistani pr... Read more
Imperatives of Plucking the Low Hanging Fruit to Boost Defence Manufacturing
Editor’s Note The author’s prime argument is that the enthusiasm shown in making our procedures far more efficient and attractive for the private sector to foray into defence equipment manuf... Read more
How Indian Negotiators Brought Down The Price Of Rafale Jets
If India has not bought a single piece of artillery for over 28 years, the story is as dismal for the fleet of combat jets. No new fighter planes have been procured by the Indian Air Force (... Read more
The story behind the story on Rafale that I broke
Last year in April, I almost ignored one of the biggest tip-offs I have received as a journalist but managed to put it up on my blog 12 hours after I first heard about it. The story begins o... Read more