Articles By Gp Capt Vinay Kaushal (Retd.)
The Need for a Mid-Term Review of the 13th Defence Five Year Plan
By: Gp Capt Vinay Kaushal (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 16 Aug , 2018
The defence planning process has been historically linked to the national five year planning process, which began in 1951. While the 1st Five Year Defence Plan (1964–69) was initiated in the...
Defence Budget 2017-18: What the Macro-Economic Factors Foretell
By: Gp Capt Vinay Kaushal (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 01 Feb , 2017
The Union budget is being presented for the first time on February 1 instead of the last working day of February. 2016-17 was also the last year of the 12th Plan. With the five-year Plan process...
Defence Modernisation: A Silver Lining in the Dark Clouds?
By: Gp Capt Vinay Kaushal (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 29 Jan , 2017
For defence modernisation that has seen bad times in the recent past, some new developments have kindled hopes for better times. First came the news on January 23, 2017 of the Hon’ble Supreme...
Union Budget 2016-17: Deciphering the Defence Budget
By: Gp Capt Vinay Kaushal (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 12 Mar , 2016
It probably is the first time that there was no mention of ‘Defence’ in the Finance Minister’s February 29 budget speech. To make the task of the strategic community tougher, the Demands...