The year 2022 arrived as a harried harbinger of tidings of war and woe in the Indo-Pacific — a geo-strategic region central to the security calculus of both, regional and extra-regional play... Read more
Make In India: Imperatives to promote dual use technology industries to propel defence manufacturing
The “Make in India” program was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 September 2014. Since then, from within the 25 targeted sectors, the Defence Manufacturing sector has received... Read more
Indian borders have been under a state of strategic flux ever since the British moved out leaving behind unresolved boundary issues leading to five major wars. The areas under dispute with C... Read more
Introduction Technology has been at the forefront of India’s external security management, both in the civil and military domain. Indian expertise in utilisation of satellite technology for... Read more
DRDO’s vision and primary mandate is to establish a world class science and technology base; a task it has been doing so far and will continue to pursue tomorrow. Some of the goals of the Ma... Read more
Very often, even in the informed circles, the nomenclature Integrated Defence HQ, is less known. It is often confused with one of the Integrated Service HQ. Subsequent to Kargil Committee re... 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
From 8th to 10th December, Manohar Parrikar made his first visit to the United States as the Indian Minister of Defence. While the visit had some value as a stock-taking exercise, and some m... Read more
“Guns, shots and shells fortunately do not deteriorate from climate. As a general principle, therefore, I would advocate that guns, shots and shells and small arms of all kinds should be obt... Read more
