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Nationalistic pride is warping India’s strategic analysis. This essay exposes the danger of comparing future Indian projects with an adversary’s current
A Challenge to Doctrine: Questioning the Inevitability of the Tank
A Response: Reassessing the Tank in an Era of Pervasive Lethality
Tanks are dead
Why Licensed Aircraft Manufacturing Matters More Than “Indigenous Design” Popular defense commentary often dismisses licensed manufacturing as worthless “screwdriver work.” Critics claim that assembling foreign platforms creates dependency and advocate for “indigenous design” even when critical components must be imported. India’s Medium Transport Aircraft program serves as a prominent example of this debate. This perspective misunderstands how aerospace engineering actually works. It confuses a product’s external shape with the technological capability needed to build it. ...