Category: Defence Acquisition
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India’s Defence Budget : A Discussion in Jaipur Dialogues
Mr Sanjay Dixit and I discuss and analyse Defence Budget.
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The Xi of Everything by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Published in The Financial Express @ The Xi of everything Xi believes that he has a mandate from heaven to lead his nation to the pinnacle of the international system. He has preordained himself to be the greatest Chinese to be born. He has scripted his history yet to be lived. October 25, 2022 1:25:59…
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The Big Military Drift by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Also published in The Financial Express @ The Big Military Drift Our erudite External Affairs Minister with his sharp-witted interjections has put many doubting interlocutors in their place. India has overtaken its erstwhile colonial master as the fifth largest economy and is on course to be the third largest by 2030. The world seems to…
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Institutional Talk on China's Civil Military Fusion at C3S
This is the recording of a talk I gave on China’s Civil Military Fusion on 16 Jan 22 as part of the Institutional Dialogue at Chennai Centre for China Studies. The Q&A session of the talk was very interesting and thought provoking. The talk is based on an Article I had written earlier @ Civil Military…
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CORPORATISATION OF OFB – HIGH TIME FOR ACTION BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
Also Published @ https://thedailyguardian.com/corporatisation-of-ofb-high-time-for-real-action/ The OFB is similar to the Boeing 737 Max aircraft which was flying with the wrong software and ultimately crashed Anonymous Earlier Articles In Series Corporatisation of The OFB- The Unknown Angel @ https://www.gunnersshot.com/2020/05/corporatization-of-ofb-unknown-angel-by.html Why Corporatisation of Ordnance Board is a Must @ https://www.gunnersshot.com/2020/08/on-16th-may-2020-government-announced.html The recent ‘barrel burst’ of the 155 mm ATAGS Gun during trials sets…
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A LANDSCAPE FOR DEFENCE EXPORTS By LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
Also published in The Daily Guardian and CENJOWS @ https://cenjows.in/article-detail?id=395 A birds eye view indicates conflict zones are in Africa, Middle East, West Asia, South Asia and the South China Sea. Major defence spenders will also be in this region. India is central to these zones. Recent Chinese aggression and assertion has driven up security…
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DAP: Examination of the Strategic Partnership (SP) Model By Lt Gen PR Shankar (R)
Also published @ https://cenjows.in/article-detail?id=372 And https://thedailyguardian.com/defence-acquisition-needs-to-be-streamlined-now/ The Indian Army is making incremental, but confused, progress in upgrading its depreciated artillery profile that has languished gravely since the import of Bofors howitzers in the late 1980s as per Rahul Bedi in Hindu in 2014. In 2020, the same Hindu reports that the Defence Ministry will introduce import embargo…
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Why Corporatisation of Ordnance Board is a Must By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Published @ https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2020/aug/11/why-corporatisation-of-ordnance-board-is-a-must-2181746.html On 16th May 2020 the Government announced the decision to corporatize OFB to improve its autonomy, accountability and efficiency. It evoked overwhelming response from the Armed Forces who felt that the step was overdue but suboptimal. Almost everyone wanted the OFB to be privatised on a PPP model. Simultaneously there were discordant notes from within OFB. The feedback indicated…
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FDI IN DEFENCE : SOME THOUGHTS BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
Original Article @ https://www.vifindia.org/article/2020/june/20/fdi-in-defence-some-thoughts When our Finance Minister announced the raising of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit in the defence sector under the automatic route from 49% to 74%1 it was reported as a ‘big push’ for Make in India. It was simultaneously reported that it will encourage multinationals to set up manufacturing bases in India or…
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