The New ‘Make’ Procedure: A Retrograde Step

Prior to the issuance of Defence Procurement Procedure – 2006 (DPP-2006), all proposals categorised by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) as ‘Make’ cases were handled by the Defence R&D Board (Def R&D Bd). The Department of Defence R&D had evolved a procedure that had adequate inbuilt flexibility for R&D application. Expenditure was debited to the [...]

“Is war around the corner?”

A few month’s back, Bharat Verma, Editor of the Indian Defence Review, in an article, had predicted that China may attack India by 2012. Frankly, at that time, I did not agree with this prophecy, because in my opinion China would not want a war till it becomes a true super power by 2050,and in [...]

Bows, Arrows and Nuclear Weapons

Just few years before India got its independence an unhealthy collision took place between the worlds of physics and politics. In 1945 the Americans nuked Japan. Since then in some parts of the world national security has become synonymous with nuclear weapons. Subsequently, during the Cold War era these weapons did succeed in bringing stability. [...]

Incursions, Now and Then

Chinese incursions have been making headlines in the Indian media. Unfortunately, the Indian leadership prefers to mitigate the facts, to not “hurt feelings of the Chinese” or “make things worse”. After all, they say, that China is our neighbour for a long time to come and we have to learn to live with it!