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06/11/2022

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04/11/2022

With the vision of our government, which has kept some aggressive but achievable targets like $25 billion turnover of our defence industry and $5 billion exports by the year 2025 which can make us net exporter.

All these targets can't be achieved by just the participation and growth of the private sector. These would require a double engine growth that also requires the participation of PSUs and ordnance factories.

The manufacturing powers of these PSUs and ordnance factories combined with the competitive mindset of private companies would be a deadly combination for the overall growth of this defence industry.

03/11/2022

The Indian IT industry could help us achieve what can take us leaps and bounds ahead of our competitors. The IT giants like TCS, WIPRO, INFOSYS, TECH MAHINDRA etc are cash-rich companies and with fresh talents from premier institutes of India, can lead our way into providing defence and national security solutions, which include military readiness and intelligence analysis the way IBM provides to US government.

02/11/2022

India is the 2nd largest country in the number of startups only behind the USA. Though the gap is wide the youth of India will fill it and our engineering bravados will lead to startups catering to our defence needs.

And we are worldwide famous for our low-cost high-quality products. So these startups will fill the required space in our defence industry with their passion for work, love for the country and young blood.

Entry of Indian big giants into the defence industry. Companies like Bharat Forge, L&T, Tatas, Mahindra & Mahindra etc are already into the defence industry through their subsidiaries. These corporate giants have grown into their respective fields and have contributed a lot to the Indian economy.

With top quality management, love for their country and resources at their disposable. They can leave a mark in this industry. With the involvement of such giants, the competition in the industry would rise, which would leave no reason for average products, so companies would spend hefty amounts of resources on their research and developments.

01/11/2022

Being the third-largest spender on defence in the whole world i.e($70 billion). The amount in absolute term is huge but when we see the breakup of expenditure, then you will realize that out of the whole amount only around 25% is utilised for capital expenditure i.e(procurement of new equipment and upgrade of existing military equipment).

More than 55% of our defence budget is devoted to the salary and pensions of our defence personnel. We shouldn't reduce it but we should instead raise the budget allocation for capital expenditure. Though the revenue constraints are there for the government, this should be the main focus as our economy and government revenue grows.

10/05/2022

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11/04/2022

In geopolitics, even though we need to be selfish as the game of geopolitics describes, we sometimes tend to hurt other countries while following our interests. If the countries are less powerful than us, then we can somewhat bypass them or can take a stance against them firmly but when we have a dilemma with superpowers economically or militarily, then we need to think wisely and very carefully.

We need to predict both the worst and the best-case scenarios for our decisions and need to be prepared for them. All these tensions can many times lead to, somewhat compromising with our principles and ideologies to suit our needs. So to counter this and avert such pressure and always be free to follow our principles and ideologies we need to gain "STRATEGIC AUTONOMY".

Theoretically, only a lone superpower in a unipolar international order truly possesses "STRATEGIC AUTONOMY" since it is the only country that would wield overwhelming economic, industrial, military and technological capabilities and thus the power to resist pressure from all other states.

Even superpowers become susceptible to the pressure exerted by their superpower peers in bipolar or multipolar order, which means that their ability to be strategically autonomous is not absolute but relative.

We as a country have at least gained strategic autonomy to resist external pressure to change or moderate our core issues of national security and interest like our stance on Jammu and Kashmir but we may likely alter our policy on non-core issues by external pressure for example India voting against Iran in International Atomic Energy Agency by the influence of the USA. Hence, we need to strengthen our strategic autonomy so as not to mend our policies easily.

This can be achieved with help of strengthening and making our economy, industries, technology and most important defence of our country self-reliant i.e ("ATMANIRBHAR").