Viyyanna Sastry and Rajiv Nayan of India's Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA) have criticized the NTI index in an online comment. NTI, which says it welcomes debate about its listing, has responded with an extended rebuttal One of Sastry and Nayan's criticisms was about the inverse relationship between the number of sites and the country's security rating. It points out that the first ten rankings in the NTI index are awarded to smaller countries with smaller sites and quantities.
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