Poor vision, lack of seriousness stonewalling Army modernisation

[sudhir007]

‘Poor vision, lack of seriousness stonewalling Army modernisation’ | idrw.org

Major General (Retd) A K Arora, editor of the Indian Military Review, on Thursday said poor of vision and lack of seriousness on the part of the political leadership are major impediments to modernisation of the Indian Army. Arora was speaking at the Brigadier NB Grant Memorial Lecture in the city on Thursday.

“The National Security Council, constituted in 1999, was supposed to look into the proper working of the armed forces but for various reasons it has failed to do so. There is no dedicated staff for the council to start with, ” he said.

Arora said the political leadership is casual about the issue of national security, which is looked upon as short-term concern.

Arora added that lack of vision and knowledge, withholding budgetary provisions, short command tenure of the commanders and mindset to maintain status quo are major hurdles in modernisation programme.

Commenting on various threat perceptions faced by the country, he said contrary to popular belief, India has to treat the developments in China, than Pakistan, with more caution. “China has accelerated the modernisation of its armed forces. However, India has failed to acknowledge it,” he said. This would be a big advantage for China in the days to come, he added.

He said future warfare will be more strategy based. The issue of cyber warfare has to be taken in all earnestness as India lacks knowledge and expertise to defuse such attacks

 

[neehar]

this is serious but what abt f-insas??i think americans are more cautious because theyre involved in a series of wars continously

 

[anant_s]

I agree with @ Neehar
US Army has been involved in number of campaigns and that has given the planners time to refine their strategies and soldier concept itself which one can see in terms of combat preparedness and armory of a US soldier.
There have been talks of making army lean and mean but where is the money and importantly will to do so. I don't recall but an ex Army General once commented that Indian Army is still essentially a World War 2 army. Since our threat perceptions haven't changed much since independence, the old school methods still may be made to work, but if someone is seriously putting thoughts of modernizing army, the concept should start from soldier itself.

 

[axisofevil]

this is serious but what abt f-insas??i think americans are more cautious because theyre involved in a series of wars continously

So what? Do you want to be caught with ill equipment if something ever breaks out? Just kindly reflect on Kargil. I called out poor vision and planning, all I got was BS and naty attitude from other members. Now here is the proof. They can all go suck on it.

 

[axisofevil]

There are numerous private players who can compete and match US standards when it come sto uniforms. We still don;t have proper winter supplies and depend on foreign suppliers. Of all the equipment, we purchase from abroad we should be purchasing our uniforms and supplies from domestic suppliers who meet standards. Kevlar is not new, aren;t any defence orgnaization working on such? Where is the research? Now, modern nations are closely examining spider silk and octopus camouflage. Sry this wasn;t directed at you. It was merely to open up some dicussion into what is holding us back. Everyone in our military, para, BSF, police should be given comolete uniform, multi purpose boots caps, gloves, etc. No more pants. No more crap shoes. We need loose fitting elastic pants that stretch. Not just for comfort but for tactical mobility. I understand money may be an issue but this seems more of an issue of lack of vision/planning.

 

[neehar]

So what? Do you want to be caught with ill equipment if something ever breaks out? Just kindly reflect on Kargil. I called out poor vision and planning, all I got was BS and naty attitude from other members. Now here is the proof. They can all go suck on it.

u got me wrong.i dnt mean we dnt need them.i mean they're updating their equip because they have a reason which keeps on warning them abt their saftey our leaders did not do it because we're not in a war and they need some jolt to wake up

 

[axisofevil]

Major General (Retd) A K Arora, editor of the Indian Military Review, on Thursday said poor of vision and lack of seriousness on the part of the political leadership are major impediments to modernisation of the Indian Army.




Oops the guy said the obvious. The same crap I have been saying for years. Politicans don;t give a flying f-k about our jawans, only their pocket. Politics in India is just like Bollywood.......a f-king cottage industry. If you don;t understand the term, look it up!

u got me wrong.i dnt mean we dnt need them.i mean they're updating their equip because they have a reason which keeps on warning them abt their saftey our leaders did not do it because we're not in a war and they need some jolt to wake up

Sry bro. Tempers flaring, couldn't comprehend. My sincere apologies.

 

[KRAIT]

Well Congress is busy in taking Kick backs while our soldiers lack basic equipment.

 

[axisofevil]

Well Congress is busy in taking Kick backs while our soldiers lack basic equipment.

Yup. Its so pathetic and sad. Like I said politics in India is a COTTAGE INDUSTRY

 

[anant_s]

I said politics in India is a COTTAGE INDUSTRY

Not Cottage, SICK Industry

 

[angeldude13]

but indian soldier look more bada$$

 

[rashid.sarwar]

Policy on both sides:
India:
Is our army better than Pakistan.
Yes
OK- no tension, money in the pocket


Pakistan:
Can we fight India
Yes, hope so if we do this and that
OK - no tension - money in the pocket

 

[BDforever]

guys offtopic: now can i create new thread and post pictures ?

 

[SamantK]

guys offtopic: now can i create new thread and post pictures ?

Could you have not chosen a different thread

 

[Arav_Rana]

Why you are comparing with US soldier. US defence budget is above 600 billion $.
In Indian army modernization can not be done in some years. We are limited to our budget. That's true our government is corrupt and we can do better in same budget but still, it ll take more then 10 years.
You people can see the modernization in special forces and India also buying small weapons etc.