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RAKSHA - India's Defence Diplomacy Document
RAKSHA is the Defence Ministry's ten-year plan for using military ties - exercises, training, arms exports and maritime patrolling - to build partnerships abroad. Two weeks after its release the pattern was visible: the Army chief in Russia, a Vietnam defence meeting on the BRICS margins, a DRDO-industry meet opening technology to MSMEs, and a formal protest to Pakistan over a naval collision.
Last updated 2 November 20266 min read
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Puts the four pillars and what the document leaves unstated first, gives VIMARSH its own heading and folds September's engagements into a short dated log.
- RAKSHA
- defence diplomacy
- Rajnath Singh
- Ministry of Defence
- Net Security Provider
- Indian Ocean Region
- defence exports
- Make in India
- VIMARSH
- DRDO
- India-Vietnam
- ADMM-Plus
- LAToT
- Defence Policy Dialogue
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