• About
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • Contact
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
No Result
View All Result
  • Login
  • Register
  • News
  • Nation Builder
  • Entertainment
  • Rising india
    • BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Nairobi
    • LORD HANUMAN : CHAR DHAM PROJECT
    • Akshardham Temple – Delhi
    • Chenab Railway Bridge
    • Development Wins, Yogi Government 2.0
    • KASHI CORRIDOR
    • Kedarnath
    • National War Memorial
    • NEASDEN TEMPLE, LONDON
    • PM Narendra Modi inspects antiquities returned to India by Australia
    • Statue of Equality
    • Statue of Unity
    • SWAMI NARAYAN MANDIR, PUNE
    • Swaminarayan Akshardham – Gandhinagar
    • Swaminarayan Mandir NJ, USA
    • Teen Murti Bhavan campus New Delhi
  • Zoom-In
  • Perspective
  • Multilateral
  • Globetrotting
  • Donation
  • Caring Economy
  • Download
  • Contact
  • Hindi
  • News
  • Nation Builder
  • Entertainment
  • Rising india
    • BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Nairobi
    • LORD HANUMAN : CHAR DHAM PROJECT
    • Akshardham Temple – Delhi
    • Chenab Railway Bridge
    • Development Wins, Yogi Government 2.0
    • KASHI CORRIDOR
    • Kedarnath
    • National War Memorial
    • NEASDEN TEMPLE, LONDON
    • PM Narendra Modi inspects antiquities returned to India by Australia
    • Statue of Equality
    • Statue of Unity
    • SWAMI NARAYAN MANDIR, PUNE
    • Swaminarayan Akshardham – Gandhinagar
    • Swaminarayan Mandir NJ, USA
    • Teen Murti Bhavan campus New Delhi
  • Zoom-In
  • Perspective
  • Multilateral
  • Globetrotting
  • Donation
  • Caring Economy
  • Download
  • Contact
  • Hindi
No Result
View All Result
No Result
View All Result
Home Recent News

Growing footprint of defence diplomacy

Blitzindiamedia by Blitzindiamedia
June 22, 2022
in Recent News
0
Social welfare schemes proved game-changer
0
SHARES
1
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The discipline of defence diplomacy picked up salience as an important component of foreign policy with most major militaries by the end of the Cold War. Particularly, in the last three decades, it has become a vital instrument in the diplomatic tool-bag of most countries.

While maintaining a nuanced policy of nonalignment during recent years, a significant shift in India’s expanding defence diplomacy imprint under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been from the West to South Asia.

Related posts

Harnessing India’s youth power

Harnessing India’s youth power

June 23, 2022
Aiming at an incredible journey

Another game-changing move

June 22, 2022

This diplomacy includes a more advanced naval engagement, greater military exercises, and enhanced efforts for defence exports. As a result, they have improved interoperability with partner militaries, built partnerships, and earned diplomatic heft for India.

A key driver for India’s defence diplomacy has been China’s persistent aggressiveness in the region, particularly in the South China Sea. In recent years, India has intensified collaboration with many Southeast Asian states. They, too, are keen to expand their security ties with India to balance China and bolster their maritime security.

Significantly, most Southeast Asian states— Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar, participated in this year’s Milan exercise. Of these, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia had participated in the inaugural edition of the exercise in 1995.

The Indian Navy has supported this engagement by participating in multilateral exercises in the region like the Indonesian Navy’s Komodo and the US-led Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training exercises. India is utilising this collaborative approach to stimulate defence exports and counter China, which has leveraged its defence supplies to entrench itself in the region.

In recent years, India has intensified collaboration with many Southeast Asian states. They, too, are keen to expand their security ties with India to balance China and bolster their maritime security

The recent $375 million Brahmos missiles deal with the Philippines—the first such export order for the missile— has come as a shot in the arm for India’s defence industry. Under the contract, India will provide three missile batteries to the Philippine Navy and potentially a follow-up order.

With a target of $5 billion for defence exports by 2024, India has intensified its efforts to sell weapons to Southeast Asia and Africa, where Chinese defence companies dominate. Due to such efforts, the exports have soared to Rs 10,745 crore in 2018-19, from just Rs 1,940.64 crore in 2014-15, although there is still a long way to go.

Besides the measures to expand the domestic defence industrial base and boost exports, the Government has strengthened the role of defence attaches located in Indian embassies abroad.

The Government has allocated them an annual budget of up to $50,000 to promote Indian defence equipment in their respective markets. Moreover, to reinforce their sales pitch, it has cleared multiple ‘Madein-India’ equipment, including the Tejas combat aircraft and Astra missile for export to friendly countries.

Beyond exports, India has also helped its immediate neighbours to build their naval capability by donating and transferring equipment. This includes off-shore patrol vessels to Mauritius (2015), Sri Lanka (2018), Maldives (2019), and Seychelles (2021), as well as two Dornier aircraft to Seychelles (2013 and 2018). Although small, with these steps India hopes to buttress its role as a ‘net security provider’ for the region.

A key element of being a ‘net security provider’ is the ability to launch Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations in the region. For long, India has been leading on the HADR operations front, as seen during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 2015 Nepal earthquake, and 2020 floods in Madagascar. Moreover, the acquisition of equipment like the INS Jalashwa transport dock and C17 transport aircraft in the last decade has empowered the Indian military to execute such operations.

Previous Post

World to pay more for less food: FAO

Next Post

Agnipath: An idea whose time has come

Next Post
Agnipath: An idea whose time has come

Agnipath: An idea whose time has come

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

RECOMMENDED NEWS

Biden nominates N. Korea human rights envoy, first since 2017

Biden nominates N. Korea human rights envoy, first since 2017

5 days ago
ROADMAP

ROADMAP

6 months ago
Political realignment

Political realignment

3 months ago
A winning spree

A winning spree

5 months ago

BROWSE BY CATEGORIES

  • A Tribute
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • Blitz India Media
  • BlitzNEWS
  • books
  • Business
  • CAMPAIGN
  • caring economy
  • Culture
  • ECO-FOCUS
  • economy
  • ECONOMY/SPORTS
  • Entertainment
  • FOCUS UK
  • G20 PODIUM
  • Gender equality
  • GLOBETROTTING
  • health
  • international
  • latest
  • Latest News
  • Lifestyle
  • MAHARASHTRA
  • MULTILATERAL
  • NATION BUILDER
  • National
  • News
  • Opinion
  • PERSPECTIVE
  • Politics
  • REALITY CHECK
  • Recent News
  • Rising india
  • special
  • Sports
  • states
  • Travel
  • world
  • world cup
  • ZOOM-IN

POPULAR NEWS

  • Scholar administrators  are witness to an era

    Scholar administrators are witness to an era

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • A great polyglot and litterateur

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • A path-breaking book on pauperisation of peasants

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • A great man, a glory of India

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • See it, Catch it, Beat It!

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • Contact

© 2022 Blitzindiamedia -BlitzIndia Building A New Nation

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Nation builder
  • Entertainment
  • Rising india
    • BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Nairobi
    • Akshardham Temple – Delhi
    • Chenab Railway Bridge
    • Development Wins, Yogi Government 2.0
    • KASHI CORRIDOR
    • Kedarnath
    • National War Memorial
    • NEASDEN TEMPLE, LONDON
    • PM Narendra Modi inspects antiquities returned to India by Australia
    • Statue of Equality
    • Statue of Unity
    • SWAMI NARAYAN MANDIR, PUNE
    • Swaminarayan Akshardham – Gandhinagar
    • Swaminarayan Mandir NJ, USA
  • Multilateral
  • Globetrotting
  • Donation
  • Caring Economy
  • Download
  • Contact
  • Hindi

© 2022 Blitzindiamedia -BlitzIndia Building A New Nation

Welcome Back!

Sign In with Facebook
Sign In with Google
OR

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In