🔆 ‘RAKSHA’ — India’s 10-Year Defence Diplomacy Roadmap
📍 Why in News?
🟢 India has released RAKSHA (Roadmap for Advancing Kinship, Security and Harmony Abroad), a 10-year defence diplomacy framework (2026–2036) to align security partnerships with foreign policy objectives.
📍 Four Pillars of RAKSHA
🟢 Strategic Partnerships: Long-term bilateral and multilateral security cooperation.
🟢 Capacity Building: Joint exercises, military training and sharing of best practices.
🟢 Indigenous Exports: Promoting India as a reliable global defence manufacturing hub.
🟢 Maritime Security: Strengthening India’s role as a Net Security Provider and First Responder in the Indian Ocean Region.
📍 Why is it Significant?
🟢 Shifts India’s defence diplomacy from ad-hoc engagements to a structured strategic framework.
🟢 Supports the Make in India and defence export agenda.
🟢 Builds on initiatives such as SAGAR, Mission Sagar, HADR operations and 2+2 dialogues.
🟢 Strengthens India’s engagement with the Global South and Indo-Pacific partners.
📍 Challenges
🟢 Turning ambitious targets into effective implementation.
🟢 Balancing strategic autonomy with engagements involving QUAD, SCO and Russia.
🟢 Ensuring competitive pricing, reliable after-sales support and export credibility.
🟢 Managing perceptions of India’s expanding security role in the IOR.
📍 Prelims Fact
🟢 SAGAR: Security and Growth for All in the Region
🟢 HADR: Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
🟢 iDEX: Innovations for Defence Excellence
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