Ashish Puntambekar
An Open Letter: India’s Next Defence Secretary … From “Outside” the IAS
30th April, 2016 Kind Attn : Shri. Manohar Parrikar Defence Minister, Government of India Sir, It may be time for the Next Secretary of Defence, Government of India … to…
Restructuring Defence Procurement Procedure
A major show stopper in India’s efforts to become self-reliant in weapons production is the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP). The current DPP (2013) is a 361-page document which serves to confuse entrepreneurs…
The Fall of the Dragon
Why should developments in the American housing / subprime market in 2007 and currently continuing into 2008 be of any interest to the defense analyst ? Well … probably…
Possible Collapse of Pakistan: Quantifying the Fallout
The overall situation appears to be quite hopeless, and under these conditions, it is only the army that can keep the country together. A military state of emergency is therefore…
