Underlines the Bipartisan nature of #US strategic acquisitions .The Presidential Election has nil effect on acquisition plans or #Defence preparedness. In contrast #India loses 1-2yrs each time a govt changes . This fallacy must be corrected if we are to grow as a global power.
This can be easily corrected by
1) A national #Defence council with one representative from each state govt, CDS & the CAG that can vote on acquisitions in election years.
2) A fixed minimum allocation of 1.5% of GDP for CAPEX that must be legally mandated for all govts .
The thing is in India the Lok Sabha elections put all LS MP seats into elections . That said, your idea could work with the RS MPs taking over under the aegis of the @rashtrapatibhvn I guess!
Having the #rajyasabha constitute a bipartisan #Defence acquisition body could in essence make it election instability proof & ensure the body is representative of all states & hence the federal structure of #India as well.
This would boost #strategic planning manifold.
Absolutely the Senate Appropriations committee model of the #USA is one that can be easily adopted into a more professional & less politics driven transparent #Defence acquisition body for #India as well.
Absolutely , Our #Defence preparedness & acquisition remain haphazard because these subjects are treated as political funding sources by governments leading to corruption riddled purchases & an acrimonious acquisition process.
That last line says it all. For all the talk by all parties on making India stronger there has been little movement on actually looking at creating a bipartisan strategic framework for #India that can continue despite elections.
The reasons for that lie in the very communally charged & fractitious political scenario in India . Without sorting the core reasons behind the same we won't make much headway.

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