{"id":219222,"date":"2022-12-20T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219222"},"modified":"2022-12-20T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:10:03","slug":"guns-and-butter-govt-must-review-its-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/guns-and-butter-govt-must-review-its-military-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns and butter \u2013 Govt must review its military spending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c<strong>Guns and butter \u2013 Govt must review its military spending\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>Business Standard<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>20<sup>th<\/sup> December 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 International Relation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>India and China border issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Tawang clash between the Indian Army and Chinese PLA has been a matter of debate. The clash also highlights the lacunae of the Indian military.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the present condition of the Indian Army?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Indian military has been the subject of <strong>under-investment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Budgets are mainly set aside for infrastructure and welfare spending whereas the defence budget is merely at <strong>2.5 percent<\/strong> of gross domestic product.<\/p>\n<p>Even out of 2.5 percent, the vast amount is spent on personnel costs, especially on <strong>pensions<\/strong> and very little is spent on capital spending.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the Indian armed forces have not been modernized up to the expectations.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the government is also quiet on the current Tawang clash and it hopes that India-China relationship can be managed without any further confrontation.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>China prefers war whereas India has been trying to solve the issue diplomatically and with dialogues but this won\u2019t work for a longer period of time. India should also be ready to face the clash with China.<\/p>\n<p>For this, the government will have to start <strong>re-investing in security<\/strong> and <strong>prioritising modernisation <\/strong>of the military in its Budget allocation.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, India has only <strong>one-fifth<\/strong> the per capita income of China. Therefore, the government needs a smart strategy and spending choices to deal with the current situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cGuns and butter \u2013 Govt must review its military spending\u201d published in Business Standard\u00a0on\u00a020th December 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 International Relation Relevance: India and China border issue News: The Tawang clash between the Indian Army and Chinese PLA has been a matter of debate. The clash also&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/guns-and-butter-govt-must-review-its-military-spending\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guns and butter \u2013 Govt must review its military spending<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-219222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704791042},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}