For repetitive cycles of strategic behaviour to be broken, there either must be a ‘Black Swan’ event, or the infusion of a radically different strategy that is accompanied by a raised-risk component.
It doesn’t matter now who would’ve won the single engine fighter contract. What matters is the difficult road ahead, and that’s why the F-35 makes sense.
The IAF is not fundamentally opposed to theatre command or an empowered CDS. There needs to be better understanding between the three services.
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Flexibility, concentration of effort & centralised control are essential for best utilisation of the IAF. These could be compromised under theatre commands.
The defence squeeze is particularly difficult to understand because the BJP has traditionally been more security-oriented than other political parties.
Delivering the 12th R. N. Kao memorial lecture in New Delhi, Vohra stressed on India's need for a holistic national security policy as well as ministry.
WhatsApp privacy policy case is among a string of matters involving practices like restrictive platform rules, pricing & billing policies, reflecting India’s tight scrutiny of market dominance.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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