“BAE’s reluctance to participate may well be due to the corruption that is rampant in India’s defense acquisition community.”
If memory serves BAE bought an interest in Mahindra, India’s GE. They know the Indian marketplace well and are positioned to be there for the long haul.
My impression is that India is trying to address the corruption. Lower level requests for bribes from Majors and Colonels are being prosecuted. But, probably as here, the big money isn’t give directly to politicians. Here you find a publishing house and give them a bribe to give your politician a book contract. Or, you simply take the money to your designated Democratic headquarters and make a political “contribution” which is then forwarded (minus handling fee) to the politician you designate.
True.
It’s amazing to see how corrupt practices are executed in stealth in the US, using surrogate fronts.
The high speed rail proposal in California was another such politically-motivated gravy train. Obamacare’s “navigators” are meant to put more people onto welfare services, the dependency ensuring Democrat votes.
Then you have the recent episodes of cheating in proficiency exams in the agencies responsible for the upkeep of nuclear missiles. The word out there is that they used cell phones to trade answers.
The US has plenty of internal corruption that’s blatant, and even more that’s conducted using fronts.