March 2016
Volume 7 issue 6
MSMEs in Defence
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umerous Indian citizens have been detained within the country and outside, for promoting or actually joining the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ISIS is also called Daesh, in Arabic, the name which its leadership apparently hates. Others simply call it Islamic State. Either way, whatever names it carries, the fact that it exists and that its support within India is enough to draw the attention of authorities makes it a threat. By every yardstick that can be applied, the IS is a global terrorist organisation that has a nihilistic world view and for the fulfillment of which it is capable of undertaking the most ghastly actions. The list of atrocities committed is endless, each outdoing the previous monstrosity. The game, it seems, is to create a bigger shock at each event. In this the shock is provided by blood and gore. This is not some short-term phenomenon aimed at a quick footnote in history. The IS actually seeks to make a society that remains wedded to its vision for the foreseeable future. Which explains why a four years old child will be given the power over a remote detonation of a car packed with people. Even as others of his age are beginning their digital journey through the keys of a mobile phone, this one has entered the killing age with the same pressure applied on a remote key. The end product socially will be no different than what was attempted through the Nazi youth league, a dysfunctional human being. How do some Indians then find an attraction for this most debased human experiment? The worrisome aspect of this query is not that similar episodes occur around the country, so the Indians falling for this ghastly vision are escaping into just another room. This type of murderousness and then its projection into workstations and smartphones around the world is one of its kind. And that is what the IS precisely is, one of its kind in a world where many are sick in the mind. The Indians attracted to the IS worldview don’t come across as the usual psychos that usually end up in jails around the world for crimes committed. In fact there is nothing psychologically sick in those that have been detained within India, or even those deported from other countries for espousing IS propaganda. All of them appear to be fairly normal human beings, largely employed, or even employable. But what differentiates them from those who have gone on to make a mark in other terrorist organisations is that the Indian recruit for the IS is invariably a technically trained young male. Many times first generation educated. These are IS foot soldiers who have been digitally inspired by a millennial ideology of hate and murder. They are not some seminary trained brainwashed types who are cannon fodder, or suicide bomber by the dozens. India needs to watch where its youth is going in order to understand what is driving some of them into the open arms of the IS. Arms that are there to trap and then finish their lives. But many are still inspired enough to go to those arms. There is something happening in the youth that is alienating some of them, enough to leave home, employment and opportunities. What makes a mother, like the Pakistani woman in California, leave a small child behind and become a gun toting murderer? Thankfully, that hasn’t happened yet by an Indian. So, every effort must be made to ensure it doesn’t happen. Even as security agencies scour the digital world every day for signs of radicalisation, they must also coordinate with their counterparts from other countries to keep a watchful eye. The coordination has to be done on a local, regional and a global level since threat is at each stage. In this game the local communities have to be mobilised as well, for those who are falling off the map live amongst people. In order to keep a watch and the country safe, certain things have to be more transparent for the security agencies. Prying eyes are important when it comes to preventing terror. As the old adage goes, prevention is always better than cure.
Manvendra Singh March 2016
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fter the current government came to power, a new and welcome dimension was introduced to the industry sector by the flagship initiative of Prime Minister Modi, called Make in India. It found immediate resonance in the multitude of micro, small and medium enterprises collectively known as the MSME (especially among those in the Defence sector) which have helped, as much as their intrinsic expertise allowed, to keep the Indian military Laviathan functional in the face of international embargos and restrictive control regimes. Their moment to contribute more to the national security architecture had arrived. India has been into Defence production right from its Independence in 1947. The several ordnance factories that the British had set up in India to support the war effort in Burma (now Myanmar) and South East Asia theatre against the Japanese penetration needed ancillary support from the MSME sector. Even as the Defence Public Sector Undertakings and connected laboratories and factories grew in a monopolistic regime, there was a felt need for encouraging ancillary units in close proximity to such dedicated DPSUs engaged in developing weapons platforms, to bolster a national policy of self-reliance. This had become imperative to avoid becoming prey to the calculated manipulation of the geostrategic environment by the infusion of the most modern weapons systems, into Pakistan and encouraging it into military misadventures against India. A clear indicator of how deleterious has been the effect on the nation is the fact that today it has the dubious distinction of being the largest importer of weapons from foreign sources. Part of the foreign gameplan to destabilise the governments of the day were the successive scams in Defence acquisitions involving artillery and submarines which led to a stasis that paralysed Defence acquisitions in the wake of the scandals enveloping the Swedish Bofors 155mm howitzer and German HDW submarines. For decades thereafter production of these platforms lay in limbo. We all know what happened with the delayed commissioning of the aircraft carrier Vikramaditya by Russia and what continues to afflict the Rafale medium multirole combat aircraft from France. Some or the other reason persists and our national security is in danger which gives an indication towards some bigger conspiracy involving the manufacturers, bureaucrats, politicians and some businessmen who are not letting India’s own Defence Industrial Base (DIB) to develop. To support the Defence Industrial Base, it is equally very important that the Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises also be made strong to provide the best ancillary products of their acknowledged knowhow to the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) so as to strengthen both the national security as well as the economy. The existence of the Offset policies in the Defence sector is another very important aspect for the OEMs as well as the MSMEs to flourish. Even as we are trying to improve our national security apparatus new dangers are emerging on the horizon. Team DSA has focussed on the threat posed to the world, and particularly India, by the ISIS that has set up a fundamentalist Islamic Caliphate in Syria and Iraq and has threatened a ‘final war’ in India. Given the brutality and mindlessness that ISIS has displayed in the areas under its control, the threat from the ISIS to India can be worse than the LeT, the Taliban and Red Terror. Our experts on terrorism have highlighted all aspects of this new perceived threat and have offered solutions which should exercise the minds of our readers. The recent arrests across the country are self-explanatory of how the network of ISIS has been expanded in India by a few black sheep. It is very essential now that we all should be united against such elements. It is not only the responsibility of the government to secure its people from the ISIS but it is the time when our print as well as the electronic media, police, cyber cells, the Intelligence agencies and society should support each other to create a bigger action plan to eradicate any further expansion of the ISIS network in any part of India. I hope you will like this edition as always and I look forward to your candid feedback to make DSA more readable and acceptable.
Jai Hind!
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An ISO 9001:2008 Certified Magazine
SMEs–The Real Backbone Of Indian Economy 06 Puneet Kaura MSMEs Can Play A Vital Role 09 Rajinder Bhatia
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Strengthening Defence Industrial Base Col HS Shankar (Retd)
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MSMEs In DPP 2016 Ganesh Raj
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MSMEs Strengthening The Defence Potential N Ramachandran
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Know The Chief DG, Sashastra Seema Bal
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Restructuring Indian Defence Industry Prakash Panneerselvam
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How It Needs To Be Countered In India Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
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Cyber The Next Great War Is India Ready? Air Marshal Anil Chopra (Retd)
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Role Of Intelligence Keeping It Relevant And Effective Vikram Sood
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ISIS 32 A Clear And Present Danger to India Manvendra Singh Countering The Islamic State Capt SB Tyagi (Retd)
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Demilitarisation Of Siachen Countered In India Maj Gen Dr Mrinal Suman (Retd)
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Tackling Pakistani Terror Maj Gen Pushpendra Singh (Retd)
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Is India prepared for ISIS challenge? Col Utkarsh S Rathore (Retd)
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ISIS Threat To India Role Of Indian Foreign Policy Ashok Sajjanhar And Anuradha Sajjanhar
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Under Threat Of Abrogation Of Indus Waters Treaty Lt Gen Harwant Singh (Retd)
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Role Of Stakeholders In Perception Management Ashutosh Kr Mishra
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ISIS In India Possibilities And Realities Col Shailender Arya
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When should a patient be referred for IVF Dr Kaberi Banerjee
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