VVIP lessons - build arms, don't buy them

India leads the world in corruption in arms imports, and the gap is widening as we import more and more weaponry. But in taking action against the guilty, we content ourselves with political bluster and self-defeating bans. Defence Minister A K Antony’s “strong action” against Italian defence giant Finmeccanica, and its Anglo-Italian helicopter subsidiary, AgustaWestland, is aimed at making him sound like a man of steel but is, in fact, a short-sighted reaction that is meant to – but will fail to – defuse the Opposition’s equally motivated criticism.

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