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Sudhir PillaiThePrint |
India's oceans have been getting nastier for some time, but our public discourse has struggled to move beyond familiar reference points.
The physical arteries of India's economic rise depend on a single legal principle that Iran's conduct during this crisis has put under serious...
India is today immeasurably better resourced to make such bets than it was in 1950 or 1954. It has the credibility across divides that Pakistan can...
Neither Indigenous Design nor Indigenous Content makes India immune to global supply chains. Advanced design tools remain tied to international...
IndiGo showed how a single point of failure can ripple across a sector. In defence, where there is no external fallback, the consequences are far more...
Vivek Rae committee highlighted the deficiencies that persist even today: Fragmented authority, weak accountability, and the absence of dedicated...
India spends heavily on defence but does not finance it. That distinction separates mature defence-industrial economies from those trapped in yearly...
India has long spoken of self-reliance, yet delays have repeatedly necessitated stopgap imports, including Jaguars, Mirages, Su-30MKIs, MiG-29Ks, and...
On paper, the idea of theaterisation is elegant. In practice, it is paralysed by ambiguities of rank and command.
War is not a staff college exercise. Battles are messy, losses mount, and the fog of war thickens. The safeguard is not temperament at the top but...
India has paid a steep price for HAL’s unchecked dominance, evident in the MiG-era overhauls, the decades-long Tejas saga, and the troubled ALH...
Lofty goals cannot obscure a complex reality: when the need arises to unsheathe the sword, we must already have it sharpened, maintained, and ready...