Defence Notes
Opinion: Can India escape the morass of bungled procurements?
With India hosting its biennial DefExpo exhibition early next month, in yet another new and inconvenient location, it is a timely reminder to consider the morass of Indian defence procurements, a tangled ball of red tape for India’s long-suffering armed forces.
DefExpo 2020 is being held in Lucknow, following ...
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