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The Deadly Alphabet Soup That Is India s Defence Acquisition Procedure
Service officers and defence ministry officials concede that the ‘alphabetic morse code’ that comprises communications with vendors pose a ‘formidable comprehensible’ challenge even to themselves.
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Security19/Jan/2021
Every day we are assaulted by a miasma of bewildering acronyms and abbreviations in official documents, newspapers and on television, all guaranteed to drown millions of us in thick alphabet soup.
But this confusion is possibly paramount in India’s defence acquisition procedure, that remains a deadly cocktail of abridged and shortened terms that even its originators, at times, find difficult to comprehend or unravel. Service officers and Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials concede that the ‘alphabetic morse code’ that comprises almost all thei ....

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