Category: UNDERSTANDING DEFENCE ACQUISITION
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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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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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Defence Acquisitions: Integration of the Achilles Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/defence-acquisitions-integration-of-the-achilles-heel/ March 01, 2018; By: LT GEN P R SHANKAR (RETIRED); 1 Print Email Editor’s Note Our acquisition system suffers from working in silos with little inter-connectivity between the silos. It’s not project driven. The entire machinery in the chain thrives on finding flaws rather than facilitating acquisition to progress. This article is the third in the series…
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Defence Planning: Covering the Achilles’ Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/defence-planning-covering-the-achilles-heel/ April 25, 2018; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired) Print Email Editor’s Note This article is the fourth in the series of articles on Defence Procurement by the author. His earlier articles Defence Procurement – Strengthening Our Achilles’ Heel, Knowledge of Defence Acquisition – Educating Our Achilles’ Heel and Defence Acquisitions: Integration of the Achilles Heel have already been published on…
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Defence Procurement – Strengthening Our Achilles’ Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/defence-procurement-strengthening-our-achilles-heel/ January 09, 2018; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd); 2 Print Email EDITOR’S NOTE There was much hope in the strategic and defence communities when the current dispensation in Delhi moved at a fast pace on aspects concerning modernization of the armed forces and acquisitions to achieve it. However, the story so far has been patchy at best. The…
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Knowledge of Defence Acquisition – Educating Our Achilles’ Heel
https://bharatshakti.in/knowledge-of-defence-acquisition-educating-our-achilles-heel/ February 13, 2018; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired); 2 Print Email Editor’s Note The author had alluded to the fact of ‘Knowledge levels of the entire procurement chain being below par’ https://bharatshakti.in/defence-procurement-strengthening-our-achilles-heel , in one of his previous articles on the issue of defence acquisitions, published in BharatShakti. In this article, the General goes on to identify the…
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Human Angles Of Defence Procurement
Image Courtesy: Ministry of Defence https://bharatshakti.in/human-angles-of-defence-procurement/ March 22, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar ( Retd); 13 Print Email Editor’s Note DPP 2016 was hailed as a path breaking document. It was meant to loosen the reins of an overbearing bureaucracy, usher in transparency, speed up the procurement process, provide impetus for FDI in defence and a…
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Defence Planning – Different Approaches
https://bharatshakti.in/defence-planning-different-approaches/ December 02, 2016; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retired) Print Email Editor’s Note The new DPP 2016 has been hailed as a path breaking document that will provide the right set of procedures and processes to drive our defence acquisition at the desired pace. However, it hasn’t quite been able to generate the momentum that…
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