Thirty-three years ago Prime Minister Indira Gandhi decided to by pass the seniority principle and appointed an armoured corps officer, Lt Gen AS Vaidya as the chief of army staff supersedin... Read more
Editor’s Note The new DPP 2016 has been hailed as a path breaking document that will provide the right set of procedures and processes to drive our defence acquisition at the desired pace. H... 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 author brings to fore the affects of the Pakistani military’s relationship with the jihadi establishment in building an asymmetric capability that continues to bleed India.... Read more
PART II: ANALYSIS OF CHAPTER III OF DPP-2016 & MISC ISSUES Editor’s Note DPP 2016 is a remarkable document, as Brig Anjum Shahab opines in his prologue to this two part analysis. However... Read more
Part I EDITOR’S NOTE The new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2016, released at Goa during the last DefExpo is undoubtedly a path breaking document. However, it falls short in not address... Read more
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 To be a world power one has to be self reliant economically and in the field of Defence manufactu... Read more
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
