Articles By Ashish Puntambekar
An Open Letter: India's Next Defence Secretary ... From "Outside" the IAS
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Date: 04 May , 2016
30th April, 2016 Kind Attn : Shri. Manohar Parrikar Defence Minister, Government of India Sir, It may be time for the Next Secretary of Defence, Government of India … to come from outside the...
Restructuring Defence Procurement Procedure
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Issue: Vol. 30.3 Jul-Sep 2015 | Date: 19 Dec , 2015
A major show stopper in India’s efforts to become self-reliant in weapons production is the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP). The current DPP (2013) is a 361-page document which serves to...
Indian Energy Security
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 09 Feb , 2014
Talking about energy security has become a fashion. Every now and then there is a conference on the subject or someone writes a scholarly article. The flavour of the season could be “equity...
Indian Energy Security-II
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
The Indian Need India is growing fast. Last year, a survey of some 600 companies by the NCAER found that an astonishing 96 percent of them were operating at close to their optimal levels of...
Indian Energy Security-III
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 29 Dec , 2010
The Pipelines SPV The pipelines Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV 2) will be a consortium of Indian energy companies and strategic investors some of whom will be investing primarily for tax purposes....
The Fall of the Dragon
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
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...
Possible Collapse of Pakistan: Quantifying the Fallout
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 27 Feb , 2008
The overall situation appears to be quite hopeless, and under these conditions, it is only the army that can keep the country together. A military state of emergency is therefore definitely on...