Thursday, 29 August 2013

Indian Army New Strike Corps

Although #India effusively plays up the supposed threat to its security from #China, its #militarydoctrine as well as all of its military setup is entirely #Pakistan-centric.

It should raise eyebrows when the third-largest military on earth is hardly committing anything more than a single $10 billion "mountain strike corps" consisting of no more than 45,000 soldiers (out of more than 1 million it has currently enlisted) to face down the specter of an enemy that it plays up as its largest #nationalsecurity threat while focusing entirely on another country that it likes to tell the world is only a pinprick.

This article raises 5 pertinent questions seeking explanation of the rationale for the formation of this corps, asking of the need to create it when the resources devoted to it could have been better spent elsewhere:

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