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Weaning India Away From Russia? Take a Leaf from the French Playbook
The article examines strategies for reducing India's longstanding military and defense dependence on Russia, drawing lessons from France's approach to defense partnerships and arms exports. It explores how Western nations, particularly through the French model of technology transfer and co-production, could offer India viable alternatives to Russian weapons systems. This comes amid broader geopolitical pressure on India to diversify its defense relationships following Russia's invasion of Ukrain