Raoul don't deserve SPG
Employees can actually fukc off if they want to. There is no compulsion. Army is not your unemployment scheme.The same reason you go to work even on days you don't want to,
The same reason thousands travel unsafely to their work everyday on Mumbai local
The same reason thousands of manual scavengers enter the gutter everyday
To feed their families and to clothe their children.
Soldiers still choose to work for this thankless organization because of their love for the nation and because they have no other job opportunities.
Though i in Principal love the Idea of a younger armed forces with younger infantry and fighting force with younger JCOs till Major Rank while guided by a mature officer there after in back officeSushant Sareen: 'India can't be spending huge amounts on pensions'
Excerpts from the article:
In November 2020, India Today reported that the government spent more on paying pensions than on purchasing military hardware. The 2020 defence budget allocated Rs 1.3 lakh crore to defence pensions and Rs 1.1 lakh crore to buying military hardware like fighter jets, tanks and warships.
Sushant Sareen, a noted security analyst and senior fellow at ORF, however, said economics cannot be entirely divorced from national security. While admitted there were some issues with the new scheme, he suggested that the government can't afford higher pension bills anymore.
"A balance has to be found," he said, "else you end up without an economy and with no nation to secure - ask the Soviets." "There are issues, serious ones with Agnipath. These need to be fixed. But we can't be spending huge amounts on pensions that will bankrupt the state," Sareen said.
A social media user asked Sareen what exactly was the definition of "huge amounts for a $5 trillion economy", suggesting that India can afford the current level of pension.
Sareen responded, saying the size of the economy and the fiscal space are two different things. The metric to watch out for is how much is the outgo on pensions and the future projections, he said. "Also, compare pension spends with how much of the defence budget is being spent on salaries. Finally, we are still not a $5 trillion economy. Even if we were, it wouldn't change the fundamental economics numbers of pension burden which will become unaffordable if not reformed."
In November 2020, India Today reported that the government spent more on paying pensions than on purchasing military hardware. The 2020 defence budget allocated Rs 1.3 lakh crore to defence pensions and Rs 1.1 lakh crore to buying military hardware like fighter jets, tanks and warships.
A research paper published by Manohar Parrikar Defence Institute in February 2020 said that the share of the defence pension had increased the most, and together with P&A (Pay and Allowances) accounted for 61 per cent of the Defence Ministry's total budget in 2020-21, up from 49 per cent in 2011-12.
More significantly, the paper stated, nearly the entire increase in the pension's share had come at the cost of capital procurement, which together with stores had dwindled by 11 percentage points from 36 per cent in 2011-12 to 25 per cent in 2020-21.
"In other words, the fast rise in the pension expenditure has a significant crowding out effect on the stores and modernisation, two major components that determine a nation’s war-fighting ability. This does not augur well for India's defence preparedness," said the paper, authored by Group Captain (Retd.) Vinay Kaushal and Laxman Kumar Behera, Research Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies.
Under the Agnipath scheme, the defence ministry has been recruiting youth in the armed forces for four years. Those recruited under the Agnipath scheme is called Agniveers. After four years, 25% of each batch of Agniveers will be enrolled in a regular cadre, while 75% will return to civilian jobs. The Centre has promised that 10% of all vacancies in the central armed police forces or the paramilitary will be reserved for Agniveers.
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These are the the direct consequences of employing a out of date military concept and doctrine of massive armies for decades .
The rest of the world have moved on to
Smaller armies but reserves when needed in war
Better force multipliers
Air power and stand off weapons
Special forces
Real time intel.
We are trying to developed modern military with massive manpower
India needs to lose 250000 men asap
And rely on modern equipment surveillance drones artificial intelligence streams
It will take a generation to lose the massive pensions budget maybe two
You definitely don't need one million man army to defeat Pakistan
Half that size is more than enough
You don't even need to cross deep into
the country
So much of their infrastructure military complex can be destroyed by sea and air using stand off weapons
Drones are going to get deadlier
Missles like brahmos or nirbhay scalp and drones like sea guardian and predator will.inflict massive damage
But we need a manned airforce of fifth gen.and 4th generation fighters and helicopters but especially drones and long range missles
Imagine trying to cross loc with India having
six regiments of s400
100 Rafale with meteore bvrs
100Tejas Astra bvrs
100 super mki with Astra and derby bvrs
Predator drones
12/18 Awacs
Satalite linked real time network for all three Armed services under the new three theatres command which is all about rapid combined forces movement
The attackng force is mine meat potentially...They won't even try
Once India develops a Military Industrial Complex as significant as the US's, it can consider becoming a global police force by establishing military bases worldwide. This would necessitate an army of over one million personnel. However, for now, India should concentrate on countries within its sphere of influence and its giant neighbor, China.War Doctroine always changes
in WW1 it was trench warfare and hordes perished by introduction of Machine Gun and Mustard Gas and proper use of Artilarry
in WW2 use of fast moving Tanks with infantry given top cover by Air Force "blitzkrieg" and Use of Radar and air craft carrier made manpower and infantry almost useless to overpower enemy if not impractickle
in 1960s during 6 day war and later during Iran Iraq Wars and later two Gulf Wars use of air power showed how tactically both Infantry and armoured divissions are useless against a potent and accurate use of air power
now after almost two decades of afghan war and then Russia Ukraine war use of Hit and run tactcks and Drone warfare had complityly changed all the previous uses of Infantry or tanks or airpower or missiles as we knew them
and Indian army also is making its own adjustment and you dont prepair for war during or just before the war you perpair for it during the peacetime
this AGNIVEER scheme though looks very unpopular by older standards and since we mostly see Armed forces as a RESPECTABLE JOB/PROFESSION it needs to change other wise we should stop calling it defnce forces but defnce profession