Should MoD Persist with Defence Offsets? - IDSA
The draft Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2020, released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on March 20, exempted foreign vendors from discharging offset obligation in all ‘Buy (Global)’ cases exceeding Rs 2,000 crore other than those processed on the single-vendor basis under specific Inter-governmental Agreements (IGAs), including the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme of the US ...
CAATSA Sanctions and India - MP-IDSA
Ever since the Countering American Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) was enacted on August 2, 2017, there had been much speculation in India about its potential impact on India-Russia defence relations especially in the context of India’s possible purchase of …
Mahabharata: A Strategic Overview - MP-IDSA
Summary. The Mahabharata is not a prescriptive text nor is it a myth or a tale, nor is it merely a story about war and warfighting. The epic is guided by the overarching principle of idealism and its functional implementation through realism.
Offset Absorption Roadmap for the Indian Air Force - MP-IDSA
Offsets in some form or the other have been practiced in many countries over a long period of time. Even in India, licensed production contracts and technology transfer contracts with… Continue reading Offset Absorption Roadmap for the Indian Air Force
BRICS and the China-India Construct: A New World Order In …
This monograph BRICS and the China-India Construct: A New World Order in Making? portrays to understand and contribute to the strategic analyses of foreign, security and economic policy issues that are attached to the rise of BRICS. This is not only a study about BRICS per se; but is also about China and India, the two most vital powers of this grouping.
The Articulated Strategy to Fight the Islamic State: Is It Self ...
President Barack Obama has detailed his strategy to degrade, defeat and ultimately destroy the Islamic State (IS) (the IS is also referred to as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS]) currently considered the most threatening of the various terrorist …
India Rising: A Multilayered Analysis of Ideas, Interests, and ...
For many years now, India’s position as a rising power has been a topic of discussion revolving around questions such as what are the factors that shape India’s conduct at… Continue reading India Rising: A Multilayered Analysis of Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
A Year-end Security Review of Southern Asia - MP-IDSA
The year gone by saw both China and Pakistan become militarily more assertive on India’s borders than ever before in the last decade. While China launched a major incursion into the DBO sector of Ladakh and took several weeks to take the PLA troops back across the LAC, Pakistan repeatedly violated the cease-fire agreement and once again stepped up infiltration of terrorists across the LoC to ...
Making ‘Make-in-India’ Move in Defence Production - IDSA
The ‘Make-in-India’ drive of the government has created a conceptual parallax in so far as the defence manufacturing sector is concerned. Foreign companies, and even governments, seem to view it… Continue reading Making ‘Make-in-India’ Move in Defence Production
The Need for Renaissance of Military History and Modern War …
The paper makes a case for the need for a renaissance of military history, and modern war studies in India. There is a wide gap in knowledge base of contemporary military history and war studies in India compared to advances made at global level.