Articles

The expectation from the second full-year budget presented by the Imran Khan government was out-of-the-box thinking to tackle immediate and long term issues. These included the COVID-19 pandemic, economic slowdown and mounting debt on the one hand an....

June 24, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Article , Economic Survey , Defence budget , COVID-19 , negative growth , deficit , Debt & liabilities , IMF conditions , revenue targets

Reflections on the Defence Budget 2018-19

G. Mohan Kumar, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

The general features of the Defence Budget for 2018-19 are not different from those of the past. With a total outlay of Rs 4,04,365 cr, including Rs 1,08,853 cr towards pension liabilities, the defence outlay is 16.6 percent of the budgeted central g....

April 02, 2018 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , national security , Defence budget , military modernisation , defence financing , Strategic Studies , Defence

Combined Commanders’ Conference 2017: Operational Preparedness and Defence Reforms need the Prime Minister’s Urgent Attention

Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

Defence Preparedness On January 21, 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the army, navy and air force commanders’ conference at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.While the text of the PM’s address has not been released, oste....

February 06, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence budget , modernisation , Defence reforms , Operational preparedness