Back to India for minute. This is why India is not going to be a truly great power anytime soon. It cannot accurately assess its threat environment and over what time horizons, figure out the capabilities it needs to manage those threats and translate those acquisitions.

Nor can it undertake the political issues of force modernization and consolidation of weapons systems. Both personnel costs and logistical costs of redundant, differently-sourced and incompatible weapons system chew up the budget and leaves India few options other than piece-meal

acquisitions. Worse, it figures out a purpose for a major weapons system only after the acquisition has begun.

It's maddening. How many books have come and gone over India's rise...yet no rise thus far. It's like a lousy packet of yeast.

India tries to achieve greatness on the installment plan. Steve Cohen's "Arming without Aiming" was spot on in so many ways. Of course @Mukherjee_Anit 's superb book adumbrates the bureaucratic challenges Steve identified. https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/why-the-indo-us-armed-drone-deal-didn-t-go-through-1737433-2020-11-03