{"id":221380,"date":"2023-01-06T19:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221380"},"modified":"2023-01-06T19:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T13:56:15","slug":"time-to-take-stock-on-indias-military-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/time-to-take-stock-on-indias-military-preparedness\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to take stock \u2013 on India\u2019s military preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<strong>Time to take stock\u201d published in <\/strong><strong>Business Standard<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6<sup>th<\/sup> January 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong>challenges with the Indian military<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>India is the world\u2019s only major country that faces a three-and-a-half front military threat. The article discusses the military challenges that India faces.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the challenges with Indian and its military?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>a)<\/strong> threat from two nuclear armed nation (Pakistan and China), <strong>b)<\/strong> insurgencies in Kashmir and north-east, <strong>c)<\/strong> increasing threats from China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) in land and in ocean, <strong>d)<\/strong> lack of long-term National Security Strategy (<strong>NSS<\/strong>), <strong>e)<\/strong> inadequate defence budget which leads to lack of manufacturing of defence equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, India\u2019s military deployment has now shifted its focus from Pakistan towards China and India has also made organisational changes in its military.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What organisational changes have been brought in Indian military?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Government has restructured 17 single-service commands into a smaller number of <strong>tri-service theatre commands<\/strong>. However, concerns such as reporting authority to which theatre commands will report in the war time still remain.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there has been very little change in the functioning of Indian armed forces even after creating a tri-service Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Further, to increase the defence budget government has reduced the pension budget and has come up with Agnipath Yojana.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What can be done to improve the Indian military?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> India remains the only major military power that has not laid out its strategic objectives in a published NSS. Therefore, it should focus on bringing a <strong>National Security Strategy (NSS)<\/strong>. This would help in building national defence strategy with clear military ambitions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> there is a need for creation of a <strong>higher defence organisation<\/strong> with representatives from all the ministries in order to have a national political consensus to the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cTime to take stock\u201d published in Business Standard\u00a0on\u00a06th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Security Relevance: challenges with the Indian military News: India is the world\u2019s only major country that faces a three-and-a-half front military threat. The article discusses the military challenges that India faces. What are the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/time-to-take-stock-on-indias-military-preparedness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to take stock \u2013 on India\u2019s military preparedness<\/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":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-221380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704931361},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221380","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=221380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}