1. India will never ever have the ba--s to cause any threat to China which is a thermonuclear nation. Even all the urgings of USA will not infuse enough courage to India to mess with China. Then why is this build up? A nation with the highest concentration of the abject poor in the world should rather spend on poverty alleviation.The main incentive here is graft through arms purchase. After ages of trying and failing to produce anything lethal locally, India is now doing most of her purchases overseas. Makes it convenient to transfer funds into Swiss banks.
2. A time will come when people will ask why are we spending so much on this massive mily with most modern weapons. It's a waste of money. These guys are doing nothing sitting in cantonments. The political leadership, to justify maintaining this huge force, will look for employing them somewhere. In the neighborhood India is too scared of nuclear Pakistan to attack her. An assault on SL will be unpopular in India itself. Nepal borders Tibet which houses a huge contingent of PLA. That leaves BD. It's a Muslim nation. It is a hurdle for India's NE military ops.
3. So we, BD, must keep an eye on this build up which could eventually be launched on us.
