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IDD Bureau “Brexit” or Britain leaving the European Union – the biggest political and largest commercial union of the world– will be a windfall for China, aiding its rise further and posing problems, militarily, for others in the Indo-Pacific region. India, the US, Japan and Australia – notably all part of a ‘Quad’ – would
IDD Bureau India has announced a change in its military structure. A new rank called the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) has been added. A uniformed four-star rank General will be the CDS. The same person will also head the Department of Military Affairs (DMA), a newly created entity under the Ministry of Defence. These
IDD Multiple cyber agencies working under several ministries are likely to be folded under a “single authority or agency responsible” for the entire spectrum of defensive cyber operations in the country. Recently, Kudankolam Nuclear power plant was victim to vicious cyberattack, so were officials at the critical Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). In both cases
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has voiced the government’s desire to encourage private industry investment in defence sector, while also strengthening defence PSUs and the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). Addressing CEOs of top defence and aerospace companies at a roundtable with the theme ‘Make in India in Defence Industry’, Singh said defence companies have huge opportunities
IDD Bureau India has taken ‘very few of the necessary steps’ to address problem of defence industrial indigenisation, it faces a number of ‘dilemmas’ towards its reform process, says a latest report of think-tank Brookings, India Chapter. It goes on to suggest that without corrective steps being taken, India will continue to struggle in its
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