Interview with Bharat Verma, Editor Indian Defence Review

‘We saw the globe (and India) through foreigners’ eyes’

IDR Interview: Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State for Defence Production

  “…it is not correct to state that the progress of participation of  the private sector in defence production has been stalled.”

The process of opening the Indian defence industry to the private sector commenced in 2001. It gathered pace with the constitution of the Kelkar Committee. In the recent past, the Ministry of Defence has [...]

IDR Interview: Lt Gen S S Mehta, Director General, CII

  “…all competencies in the country, both in the public and the private sectors must be optimally harnessed.”

With a membership of close to 7500 manufacturing companies, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has been in the forefront in the promotion of defence-industry partnership. It has strived hard to bring various stake holders in the defence industry [...]

The Fall of the Dragon

Why should developments in the American housing / subprime market in 2007 and currently continuing into 2008 be of any interest to the defense analyst ? Well … probably it’s because what’s happening in subprime today has military implications and have the potential to change the balance of power globally. It is also the reason [...]

Iran-US Confrontation

The world has watched most of the last year and the one preceding, the Iran-US confrontation, at times with baited breath as the two seemed to be on hair trigger alert from time to time. The battle of nerves has ebbed and flowed over the last two years and mostly away from the US. Thanks [...]

End-Use Monitoring Regime

The United States has always been very apprehensive of its exported defence equipment falling in the hands of elements inimical to US interests. The inability of the US Government to account for all the exported Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles has been a major cause for alarm. There is the ominous possibility of some of the [...]