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2013.
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That the chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), Shyam Saran, has seen fit to provide reassurance about India's nuclear deterrent through the media (Indian Express 3 October 2013) is a long-overdue but very comforting gesture. While he rightly assails the sceptics who label India's nuclear deterrent as a measure of prestige rather than a security imperative, he spares the national-security establishment whose egregious silence over the past 15 years has allowed such doubts to take root and prosper.
It is true that a reduction of conventional forces, as many seem to expect, may not be an automatic consequence of the induction of nuclear weapons. However, it is also a fact that a nation's political and military postures as well as manner of conducting international relations must undergo substantive change on acquiring the status of a nuclear-weapon state (NWS). Not only has this not happened in India's case, but the structure of its conventional forces as well as their command & control systems and the pattern of its huge defence spending remain ad-hoc and haphazard; as if we are trapped in a debilitating time-warp.
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2013.
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The commissioning of the ex Gorshkov as INS Vikramaditya last month, was not just path breaking for the Indian Navy (IN) but more significantly for this important maritime nation. Many prophets of doom had predicted a 'dead bargain' and 'unrealistic time and cost overruns' as the forerunner of uncertainty for the future of naval aviation. They stand proven wrong.
Vikramaditya is not about keeping the art of carrier-aviation 'alive' for India (that was never in peril); nor was it a mere case of the current carrier being replaced. The 45,000 tonne Vikramaditya is about power projection, as against just air defence of the fleet, and, force projection that Light aircraft carriers are capable of. So, where are we and what does Vikramaditya bring with her? Well, we are somewhere there and she will surely be a game changer after a long, long time.
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2014.
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In the run-up to the voting on the budget, detailed demands for grant(DDGs) presented by various ministries to the Parliament are examinedby the departmentally-related standing committees. As Parliamentcannot possibly examine more than 100 DDGs presented to it everyyear, these committees are required to examine them in detail and reportback to the Parliament. One such committee is the Standing Committeeon Defence. This article looks at the manner in which this Committeeexamined the DDGs of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) over a 10-yearperiod from 2004-05 to 2013-14, and the impact of its recommendationson the trajectory of the overall defence budget. This is the first oftwo articles which focuses on the tenure of the 14th Lok Sabha from2004-05 to 2008-09. The second part would cover the tenure of the15th Lok Sabha from 2008-09 to 2013-14.
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