SU-30 MKI ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons/ Author) Once again, the Indian defense sector is raising global expectations. India is being courted as a lucrative market for defense supplies, and global vendors and foreign leaders are vying with each other to get the first-mover advantage. But there have been so many false starts in the past that it would need some serious effort on part of newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to convince its external interlocutors that much like in the past, this time too it won't be a damp squib. Modi and his defense minister, Arun Jaitley, have underlined the urgent need to reform India's defense procurement policy. Jaitley has been charged with two important portfolios -- finance and defense -- underscoring recognition in the highest echelons of the Modi government that unlike during the previous two decades, India will have limited resources to spend on defense in the coming years. The focus on defense in thi