Curriculum India's Defence Economy
India's Defence Economy
The economics of how India pays for and equips its armed forces: the defence budget, pensions, arms imports, building weapons at home, public and private defence firms, exports, procurement, Agniveer and innovation.
- Inside India's Defence Budget How much India spends on defence, how the budget splits between salaries, pensions and new equipment, and how it compares with other countries. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Pension Problem in Defence Why defence pensions have grown into a huge bill, how One Rank One Pension raised costs, and how this squeezes spending on modern equipment. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Reliance on Arms Imports Why India has been one of the world's largest arms importers, who it buys from, and the risks of depending on foreign weapons. 📄 Read-aloud
- Making Weapons at Home How India's self-reliance push in defence works through import bans, domestic procurement targets and higher foreign investment limits. 📄 Read-aloud
- Defence PSUs and Ordnance Factories The role of government-owned defence firms like HAL and BEL, why the ordnance factories were corporatised, and debates about efficiency. 📄 Read-aloud
- Private Firms Enter Defence How private companies and startups are entering India's defence sector, from artillery to drones, and the barriers they face. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Defence Economy: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on the defence budget, pensions, imports, self-reliance and defence firms. 5 questions
- India's Growing Defence Exports How India's defence exports rose sharply, what it sells and to whom, and why exports help the domestic industry. 📄 Read-aloud
- How the Military Buys: Procurement How India's defence procurement process works, why buying weapons takes years, and the reforms to speed it up. 📄 Read-aloud
- Agnipath: Short Service and Its Economics How the Agnipath scheme recruits soldiers for four years, why it aims to cut pension costs and lower the average age, and the debates it sparked. 📄 Read-aloud
- DRDO and Defence Research The role of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation, its successes and delays, and why defence R&D is hard. 📄 Read-aloud
- Defence Industrial Corridors How India's defence corridors in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu aim to build manufacturing clusters, and the economics of industrial clusters. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Future of India's Defence Economy The long-term challenges and opportunities for India's defence economy, and a recap of the module. 📄 Read-aloud