Not training, but equipment and support, e.g. new plate carriers, assault rifles, NVG, denser air support, etc
I could have been extremely critical of OP, but decided against that option as not to disheart members from sharing ideas and opening threads. That percentage and the generic approach - debatable. The %age of budget presented, is a massive topic on its own.
Coming back to your reply:
Which
Terrain will you give preference for upgradation or top standard equipment and support?
PA is deployed in following Terrain:
1. Snow + Mountains (Kashmir)
2. Mountains (KPK and Kashmir)
3. Plains + canals + hills (Punjab)
4. Semi desert (Lower Punjab)
5. Desert (Sindh)
6. marshes + swamps (Rann of kutch/Sir Creek)
Which
Formation (including support arms like Arty, AD etc) will you give preference for upgradation or top standard equipment and support?
1. Armored Divisions
2. Mechanised Divisions
3. SSG and LCB
4. Indp Armored Brigades
5. Aviation
or
6. Modernize Infantry formations (which forms the bulk of the ground force)
7. Airborne/Air assault forces (created as dedicated para troop brigade)
8. Missile (surface to surface like Hatf -all types)
Which
FORCE will you give preference for upgradation or top standard equipment and support?
1. Special Forces (SSG/SSGN/SSW) - LCB - SF wings of FC/Rangers/Levies
2. Regular PA
3. FC and Rangers
4. Levies/Khasadars etc
5. Marines
6. Mountain Light Infantry
Which nature of
WAR will you give preference for upgradation or top standard equipment and support?
1. Conventional
2. COIN and Internal affairs
3. Fifth Generation including Hybrid (Cyber+ Media etc)
4. Space
PN and PAF have to remain excluded ?
One
viable
reorganization
option is (to save men) to keep ALL the Army structure as it is, and to cut the 4th Rifle Company in each Infantry Battalion. This could be a Reserve Company on Mobilization. You should retrain to operate with 3 rifle Coys instead of 4, as most of the Armies do.
There must be some 250 Infantry Battalions, so 31000 men.
Thanks
From an administrative purpose, yes thats feasible, however, the 4th Rifle Company (Delta Coy) - usually acts as the reserve company and also preserves the fighting capacity of the Battalion, which maybe lost if Alpha and Bravo Coys get mauled badly and lose their fighting strength while Charlie Coy has to hold the front. Along with Support Weapons Platoon, the Delta Coy provides depth to the Battalion. This could also affect AOR of entire Infantry brigade or Divisions as number of troops are reduced. The whole doctrine will need to be revised or changed.
Merely talking about Pakistan Army, if the Delta Coy is disbanded, PA will raise new infantry formations thus increasing numbers of battalions. This was seen in case of Armor; PA had 75 or 77 Tanks per regiment a long time back, PA reduced it to 44-45 and formed new Armor regiments. PA is already an infantry dominated Army, just like Indian Army. The number of troops in some infantry battalions deployed in Mountain formations are already less due to nature of combat in that terrain.