Indian Defense Economic Research

Author: Jiang Yi Guo
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Publishing Date: 1999-01-01
Features: This book is a project under the "Nineteen-Ninety-Five" scientific research plan of the National Defense University. Guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and applying basic principles of national defense economics, it systematically summarizes the experience and lessons of India's national defense economy by studying the path of its national defense modernization efforts after independence for more than half a century. The book reveals the patterns of changes in India's national defense economy, clarifies the current level of its national defense economic construction, and explores its future development trends. India was already the world's largest arms importer in the 1980s, purchasing a large number of advanced weapons and equipment from the Soviet Union, making it a "regional superpower." India itself has also claimed to be the "fourth most powerful military nation in the world,"、（）、 behind the United States, the Soviet Union (Russia), and China.