Air Commodore Ajay Singh Pathania took over the command of the Jammu Air Force Station as the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) from Air Commodore SK Mishra today.
On this occasion, an impressive ceremonial parade by the Air Warriors was held at the Air Force Station in Jammu.
Air Commodore Pathania was commissioned in the Indian Air Force in 1986. An experienced flying instructor and a graduate of Defence Service Staff College, the officer has flying experience of about 6,000 hours on helicopter and trainer aircraft in India and abroad to his credit.
He has been the Flight Commander of three types of helicopters and commanded two types of helicopter units, which includes Chetak/Cheetah in the eastern sector of India and MI-25 in UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He has been the Chief Operational Officer of a premier IAF base and also commanded a Tactical Air Command in the eastern sector. The officer has also served as personal and operational staff at Air Headquarters. He was directly involved in major humanitarian assistance and disaster relief helicopter operations between 2012 and 2015, including in the Kashmir valley, Jammu and Uttarakhand, etc.
He was instrumental during the rescue and relief operations after the Nepal earthquake as well as the Yemen evacuation in April 2015. He has been the AOC and President of the Air Force Selection Board at Kolkata (Kanchrapara) and Dehradun.
He was awarded the Chief of the Air Staff commendation in 1995, AOC-in-C HQ Training Command commendation in 1997 and the Vishisht Seva Medal in January 2015.
SRINAGAR: A 25-year-old man, who had deserted army last year, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Pinglina village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday.
Officials said the gunmen attacked Showkat Ahmad Naik near his house at Pinglina. Naik died on the spot. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Initial reports said Showkat was a soldier of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI). However, the army later clarified that he was not a soldier but a deserter. Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said Showkat never took oath as a soldier.
“He was enrolled on January 15, 2018 in the Territorial Army. He went to the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) Regiment
Centre on March 21, 2018. On September 14, he went on three days leave and never returned,” the spokesman said, adding that Showkat was declared deserter on September 17 last year. Kalia said he was technically a civilian after being declared a deserter.
Soon after Showkat’s killing, a joint team of army and police
launched a search operation in the area to nab the assailants.
Last month, security forces had killed three Jaish-e-Mohammad militants during a gun battle at Pinglina village. One of the JeM militants killed in the encounter was believed to have played a crucial role in the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel.
Rafale deal: Govt hit back when first report came out, not once did it say papers stolen
Rafale deal: The Hindu report, citing a “Defence Ministry note” of November 2015, stated that the Ministry “raised strong objections to ‘parallel negotiations’ conducted by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) with the French side” in the Rafale deal.
Rafale deal: Sitharaman said the note published along with the report did not include a noting by the then Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar, who had negated the concerns. (file)
In the Supreme Court Wednesday, the Centre threatened action under the Official Secrets Act against two publications claiming their reports on the Rafale fighter deal were based on documents “stolen” from the Ministry of Defence.
But on February 8 — the day The Hindu newspaper published a report citing official notings and news agency ANI put out the same note with more notings — Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while countering the contents of The Hindu report, made no mention of any “stolen” document when she spoke in Lok Sabha.
The Hindu report, citing a “Defence Ministry note” of November 2015, stated that the Ministry “raised strong objections to ‘parallel negotiations’ conducted by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) with the French side” in the Rafale deal.
Sitharaman said the note published along with the report did not include a noting by the then Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar, who had negated the concerns.
“When the newspaper itself has chosen to say or point out in detail the then Defence Secretary’s comment which was meant for the attention of the then Raksha Mantri, it should have also put the reply of the Raksha Mantri which was also given in writing. If the newspaper wanted to bring the truth out, I would have thought that it was incumbent upon that newspaper to put the reply of the then Raksha Mantri also on record,” she said.
“The Opposition leaders who want a reply should now know what the reply of the then Raksha Mantri, Shri Parrikar was… The then Raksha Mantri, Shri Parrikar, had very clearly said in response to the file noting of the then Defence Secretary to ‘remain calm, there is nothing to worry, things are going all right’. To that extent, a detailed reply was given by the then Raksha Mantri, Shri Parrikar Ji … In all fairness, it should have been the duty of the newspaper which has published this to also put it on record the comment of the Defence Secretary and that the reply given was this,” she said.
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News agency ANI released another copy of the note that included Parrikar’s response.
Sitharaman charged the Opposition with damaging the country. “They are not interested in the Indian Air Force getting powerful. They are not interested in the Indian Air Force becoming empowered. They are working to the tunes of multinational corporate warfare. They are damaging this country. I charge them with that offence,” she claimed.
Terrorists training to attack from sea, warns Navy chief
Says reports point to new ‘brands of terror’; Navy rejects reports that its submarine tried to enter Pak waters
From page 1 NEW DELHI : Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba on Tuesday cautioned against possible terror attacks from sea even as authorities dismissed as “false propaganda” Pakistan’s claim it had thwarted an Indian submarine’s attempt to enter the country’s waters.
ANI■ Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba at the Indo-Pacific regional dialogue in New Delhi on Tuesday.In his inaugural address at the Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue here, Lanba said, “We also have reports of terrorists being trained to carry out attacks with varying modus operandi, including through the medium of the sea.”
This “brand of terror”, he said, could become a global problem and the Indian security establishment is working to address the menace. He urged the global community to come together to eliminate all forms of terrorism while reminding an international audience of the “horrific scale” of the Pulwama suicide bombing on February 14 that killed 40 troops.
Reiterating the government’s stand that Pakistan was behind the attack, he said the Pulwama carnage was perpetrated by extremists aided and abetted by a state that seeks to destabilise India.
As chairman of the chiefs of staff committee, Lamba is India’s senior-most military commander, and his comments came against the backdrop of tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
In a statement, the Indian Navy dismissed Pakistan’s claim that an Indian submarine had sought to enter Pakistani waters. “Over the past several days, we have witnessed Pakistan indulging in false propaganda and spread of misinformation. The Indian Navy does not take cognisance of such propaganda,” the statement said.
India’s military deployments “remain undeterred” and the navy “remains deployed as necessary to protect national maritime interests,” it added.
The Pakistan Navy claimed it used special skills to thwart the Indian submarine. Pakistan also released a purported video of an Indian submarine trying to sneak into its waters. The image showed the footage was recorded at 2035 hours on March 4.
People familiar with developments said all major powers with a presence in the Indian Ocean knew no Indian naval vessel was in the vicinity of Pakistani waters at that time.
The Pakistan Navy had also claimed the Indian submarine was not targeted in view of the country’s “policy of peace”.
People familiar with developments said the UN Operations and Crisis Centre had made it clear to members of the world body that enhanced monitoring measures adopted in view of the India-Pakistan tensions had been terminated. They said this was an indication that the United Nations was not buying into propaganda about an imminent conflict.
Pakistani jets made failed attempts to target Indian military installations in Rajauri sector on February 27 in retaliation for the Balakot air strike, carried out after the Pulwama attack and described by India as a “pre-emptive, non-military” strike.
A day after the aerial skirmish between the air forces in which both sides lost a jet each, the Indian military last week warned Pakistan it was prepared to respond swiftly and strongly to any misadventure.
The navy chief also drew attention to China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific to establish dominance, without naming the country.
“A unique blend of strategised financial aid, creeping territorial accretion, information operations, legal ambiguity and military assertiveness is being wielded by aspiring great powers to establish regional dominance,” he said, adding this had put the region’s delicate stability under renewed pressure.
Mounting debts have led countries such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Pakistan to give control of territories, which are of strategic significance, to China, in what global experts call Beijing’s “debt-trap diplomacy”.
Touching on the subject, Lanba said, “On multiple occasions over the last few years, we have witnessed such assistance being offered for projects with suspect financial viability, limited local participation, and unequal benefit for the recipients”. He emphasised that some projects were undertaken only to support political and strategic designs with almost no benefit to locals.
He said it was important to create an environment in which multiple options were available to countries looking for financial assistance to prevent them from getting “entrapped” by those with unscrupulous designs.
IAF: No Sukhoi shot down, Pak F-16 use ‘observed conclusively’
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force on Tuesday said that the deployment of F-16 aircraft by the Pakistan Air Force and multiple launches of AMRAAMs (advanced medium range air to air missiles) were “conclusively observed” by the Indian military in the February 27 dogfight, and prompt tactical action by Indian fighter jets helped neutralise the threat.
The IAF also dismissed reports that Pakistan claimed it shot down an Indian Sukhoi-30 during the aerial combat, saying it appeared to be a cover-up for losing a Pakistani F-16 jet during the operation.
“False claim by Pakistan of shooting down a Su-30, appears to be a cover up for the loss of its own aircraft,” the IAF said in a statement.
“Prompt and correct tactical action by Su-30 aircraft, in response to AMRAAM launch, defeated the missile. Parts of the missile fell in area East of Rajouri in J&K, injuring a civilian on ground. Detailed report in this regard has already been released by IAF,” the statement added.
Last week, the IAF showed a fragment for an AMRAAM that, it said, was fired by a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet. Pakistan has denied that it lost (or even used) F-16 jets in the dogfight.
The IAF statement reiterated that India’s air defence batteries, which were on full alert, detected a build up of PAF fighters on their side of the line of control on February 27, a day after the IAF jets targetted a Jasih-e-Mohammed (JeM) camp in Balakot in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
“In their attempt to attack our ground targets, PAF aircraft were engaged effectively. From IAF side, Mirage-2000, Su-30 and MiG-21 Bison aircraft were involved in the engagement,” the IAF said. “PAF aircraft were forced to withdraw in a hurry, which is also evident from large missed distances of the weapons dropped by them,” its statement added.
India lost a MiG-21 Bison aircraft in the February 27 dogfight, and its pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was taken captive by Pakistan before being released two days later.
Explained: India’s policy shift in sharing Indus waters with Pakistan
Since the terrorist attack in Uri in 2016, India has worked to ensure it utilises its full claim under the Indus Waters Treaty. Several stalled projects have been revived, and many have been put on the fast track.
Power project on Kishanganga, a tributary of the Jhelum , in J&K. (Express Photo: Neeraj Priyadarshi/Archive)
Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari recently tweeted that the government had decided to stop India’s share of waters in the Indus river system from flowing into Pakistan. Coming amidst noisy calls for a strong retaliation against the Pulwama terror attack, Gadkari’s statement seemed to indicate a new policy direction from the government. That clearly was not the case, as the government also clarified after some time. The policy direction had, in fact, changed more than two years earlier — in the wake of another terrorist attack, on an Army camp in Uri in September 2016.
After the Uri attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that “blood and water” could not flow together, and India had temporarily suspended regular meetings of the Indus Commissioners of the two countries.
A much bigger shift was signalled a few weeks later, when India decided to exert much greater control over the waters of the Indus basin, while continuing to adhere to the provisions of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty that governs the sharing of these waters with Pakistan. A high-level task force was set up under the stewardship of the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister to ensure that India makes full use of the waters it is entitled to under the Treaty.
Rights to be utilised
India has not been utilising its full claims, and letting much more water flow to Pakistan than has been committed under the Treaty.
The Indus Waters Treaty gives India full control over the waters of the three Eastern rivers, Beas, Ravi and Sutlej — ‘Eastern’ because they flow east of the ‘Western’ rivers — while letting the waters of the three Western rivers of Indus, Jhelum and Chenab flow “unrestricted” to Pakistan. India is allowed to make some use of the waters of the Western rivers as well, including for purposes of navigation, power production and irrigation, but it must do so in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty.
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Historically, India has never made full use of its rights, neither on the Eastern nor on the Western rivers. On the Western rivers specifically, there has been no pressing demand for creation of new infrastructure on the Indus rivers, either for hydroelectricity or irrigation. With a large proportion of farmers in Jammu and Kashmir having moved to horticulture from traditional crops, the demand for irrigation has gone down over the years. After the devastating floods of 2014, it was argued that storage infrastructure could have been built on these rivers as a flood-control measure.
As a result of India’s under-utilisation of its share of waters, Pakistan has over the years benefited more than it is entitled to under the Treaty. Pakistan’s dependence on the waters of the Indus basin cannot be overstated. More than 95% of Pakistan’s irrigation infrastructure is in the Indus basin — about 15 million hectares of land. It has now become the world’s largest contiguous irrigation system, comprising over 60,000 km of canals. Three of Pakistan’s biggest dams, including Mangla, which is one of the largest in the world, is built on the Jhelum river. These dams produce a substantial proportion of Pakistan’s electricity.
Post Uri, India’s decision to change the status quo and use more waters of the Indus rivers was made with the calculation that it would hurt the interests of Pakistan, which has become used to the excess water and built its infrastructure around it.
What moved after Uri
One that moved quickly was the 800MW Bursar hydroelectric project on the Marusudar river, one of the tributaries of the Chenab, in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. Under direct monitoring of the Prime Minister’s Office, a revised detailed project report was finalised, prompt environmental clearance was granted, and an attractive rehabilitation package for affected families was disbursed. Recently, work has also been started. Bursar will be India’s first project on the Western rivers to have storage infrastructure.
The same happened with the Shahpur-Kandi project in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, work on which was stalled for several years because of a dispute between the governments of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. In March 2017, the Centre summoned the representatives of the two states, brokered a solution, and directed that work be resumed.
A much bigger project, the 1,856-MW Sawalkot project on the Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir, was also given the final go-ahead in 2017, and work is expected to start soon. Similar is the case of the Ujh project in Jammu and Kashmir.
Officials say more than 30 projects are under various stages of implementation on the Western rivers, having got the final approvals. Many of these were started after the change in policy in 2016. Many of them have been accorded the status of national projects. Another eight projects are said to be in the planning stage.
Pakistan’s claims
Even before India’s shift in policy, Pakistan had often complained that it was being denied its due share of waters, and that India had violated the provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty in the manner it had designed and implemented many of its projects on the Indus rivers. In the last few years, several Pakistani academics have argued that the Treaty has failed to protect the interests of Pakistan, and that India has managed to manipulate the provisions in its favour.
The result has been an increasing number of objections being raised by Pakistan on the projects that are coming up in India. The two countries have permanent Indus Water Commissions that meet regularly not just to share information and data, but also to resolve disputes. Until a few years ago, most of these disputes would be resolved through this bilateral mechanism. The dispute over the Baglihar dam was the first one that Pakistan referred to the World Bank, which had brokered the Indus Waters Treaty.
Baglihar, which was adjudicated upon by a neutral expert, did not go Pakistan’s way. In the case of the Kishanganga project, where the matter was referred to a Court of Arbitration, a higher level of conflict resolution under the Treaty, Pakistan managed to get a partially favourable decision. Some disputes over the Kishanganga have remained unresolved and are currently being addressed.
In recent years, Pakistan has raised objections on many other projects, including the Ratle project, the Pakal Dul dam, and Sawalkot. Officials say the main objective of Pakistan seems to be to delay these projects, thereby forcing a cost escalation and making them economically unviable.
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Last month, the Indus Commissioner of Pakistan was in India to visit some of these projects, as can be done once in five years in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty.
he IAF fighter JEt carries out a fire power demonstration at Pokhran on Saturday. PTI
The IAF on Saturday carried out a drill involving 140 jets and attack helicopters in Pokhran, in a fire power demonstration close to the border with Pakistan. At the inauguration of the Vayu Shakti exercise, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa said, “I wish to assure the nation of the IAF’s capability and commitment in meeting security challenges.”
Pregnant woman stuck in snow delivers twins after Army’s Jawan carries her to hospital on their shoulders in kashmir
With the help of the army during the heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir, a pregnant woman has given birth to twins. The Army came to help the woman at the right time and admitted her to Bandipore District Hospital in North Kashmir. Officials said on Sunday that on February 8, a villager called the company commander of the Thana’s Panar camp at Bandipore and asked the army for help to take his pregnant wife Gulshana Begum to the hospital.
It is informed that due to heavy snowfall the weather was very bad. The temperature was minus 7 degree Celsius. Officials said that due to snowfall the roads were completely covered with snow, due to which the movement of vehicle was impossible. But it was necessary for the woman to take her to the hospital immediately.
In such a situation, the soldiers of Bandipore Rashtriya Rifles, after heavy snowfall and difficult conditions on the roads, reached the woman’s house and after crossing the ice frozen on the road, they took pregnant lady on their shoulders with the help of stretcher for two and a half kilometers. After this, the woman was taken to Bandipore District Hospital from an army ambulance. Considering the importance of each moment, the Army had arranged for doctors before meeting the civilian officers before reaching the woman’s hospital.
After the health checkup, the woman was told that she is going to be the mother of twins, for which the operation will be required. After this, he was taken to Srinagar Hospital for the operation. According to the officials, the woman gave birth to twins on the night of February 8.
IAF exercise Vayushakti 2019 to see Mi-35 assault anti-armour helicopter unleash its firepower
NEW DELHI: Mi-35 – the Russia-made assault anti-armour helicopter – will unleash its firepower in the upcoming Indian Air Force’s (IAF) exercise ‘Vayushakti 2019,’ which is due to begin from February 16..
The Mi-35 is an assault anti-armour helicopter, which can be used in numerous combat roles.
This state-of-the-art helicopter can be used in anti-tank operations, escort to Special Heliborne Operations & destruction of enemy Air Defence missions.
The helicopter can launch attacks with Shtrum missiles and rockets of different caliber, bombs & canon.
The helicopter is made by Russia and it can carry eight troops and four stretchers too.
The Mi-35 can attain a maximum speed of 315km/hr at 1000m.
This helicopter can fly at a maximum height of 4,500m.
The Mi-35 is a modern combat helicopter, which is also operated by the armed forces of Venezuela, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, and Mali.
The overall length of Mi-35 is 21.6m.
Its wingspan is of 6.5m and height is 6.5m. The take-off weight of this helicopter in ferry configuration is 12,000kg.
All CAPFs ‘organised services’ for promotion, service-related benefits: SC
he top court”s order will benefit thousands of Group A officers of central paramilitary forces like CRPF, BSF, ITBP, SSB and CISF.
New Delhi, February 5
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Tuesday held that all Central Armed Police Forces-CRPF, BSF, ITBP, CISF, RPF and SSB-be recognised as “organised services”, saying it will remove stagnation, ensuring promotion and other service-related benefits to officers in the same post.
It also held that Group “A” officers of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) should be given all benefits, including non-functional financial upgradation (NFFU) from 2006 in terms of the 6th Pay Commission.
The top court upheld the Delhi High Court’s two verdicts by which it had granted “organised service” status to Railway Protection Force (RPF), CRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB.NFFU is a concept introduced in the 6th pay commission and was granted to what the government termed as Group “A” organised services.
Under NFFU, if all the officers of a particular batch cannot move up the ladder owing to lack of vacancies but only one does, the others will automatically get financial upgradation like the one promoted. However, it would involve only a financial upgrade but not rank or perks.The top court’s order will benefit thousands of Group A officers of central paramilitary forces like Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF).
A bench of Justices R F Nariman and M R Shah upheld the orders of the Delhi High Court passed on December 4, 2012 with regard to grant of “organised service” status to Railway Protection Force (RPF) and to CRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB in its September 3, 2015 verdict.
The bench, while dismissing the appeals of the Centre against the order, said in the monographs published by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) right from 1986 till date, CAPFs have been shown to be a part of the Central Group “A” Services.
“CAPFs have been shown as a part of the Central Group A Services after conducting the exercise of Cadre Review, etc., by the DoPT. Therefore, all throughout from 1986 till date, in the Monographs published by the DoPT, CAPFs have been shown to be a part of Central Group A Services. Therefore, thereafter it would not be open for the DoPT not to consider and/or treat the CAPFs as an Organised Group A Services,” the bench said.
Justice Shah, who penned the verdict for the bench, said considering all facts and circumstances and the material on records “it cannot be said CAPFs do not constitute Organised Group ‘A’ Central Civil Services/ Group A Central Civil Services”.
Dealing with the NFFU, the bench noted that to overcome the stagnation problems, the 6th Pay Commission had recommended NFFU to all Group A Officers in various Organised Group A Services.
“The purpose of granting NFFU was to give relief to Group A Officers facing the problem of stagnation as fallback option when regular promotions do not come into various factors. It has come on record that CPMFs are facing huge problem of stagnation, more particularly, on one hand, they are not being granted the promotion as most of the promotional posts are filled in by deputation and, on the other hand, they are denied NFFU,” the top court said.
It further noted that CRPF was denied the NFFU on the ground that the 6th Central Pay Commission did not grant that.
The bench said the Central Pay Commission, as such, is not authorised to define “Organised Services” or to grant such status to any service.
It said “merely because the 6th Pay Commission did not recommend to grant NFFU to CAPFs Group A Officers in PBIII and PBIV, the Group A Officers in PBIII and PBIV cannot be denied the NFFU, which otherwise is granted to all the Officers of Group A Central Civil Services”.
The bench said it is in complete agreement with view taken by the High Court and does not call for any interference.
It further clarified that “rights of the IPS, if any, for their appointment on deputation on some of the posts in RPF cannot be said to have been affected and merely because some posts in the RPF might have been required to be filled in by way of deputation also, grant of status of Organized Group A’ Central Services to RPF shall not affect the IPS”.
With regard to RPF, the bench said view of the high court was correct in treating the office memorandum of 2003 as in principle decision/approval of the DoPT to constitute the RPF as an Organised Group A Central Services.
“The RPF is rightly treated and considered as an Organised Group A Central Service,” the bench said.
On September 3, 2015, the High Court had asked the Centre to consider all CAPFs as organised services.
Aggrieved officers of CAPFs have argued that they were facing stagnation not only because of lack of adequate promotional posts, but also because a majority of the posts of the top hierarchy had been filled up by deputationists (IPS officers), affecting the career progression of the cadre officers.
The CAPFs are the country’s largest paramilitary forces which not only guard strategic Indian frontiers but also are deployed for a variety of internal security duties. – PTI
India needs realistic defence planning and war doctrines that fit in with the budget
The defence allocations in the interim budget 2019-20 have again been a disappointment. While the capital outlay has crossed Rs 1 trillion for the first time, it hardly represents any hike over the revised figures for 2018-19 once inflation and rupee depreciation are accounted for. On the other hand, the bill on salaries and pensions has ballooned, thanks to the large size of the Indian armed forces and the implementation of one rank one pension. A simple addition of pay and allowances of serving personnel and pension of retired veterans returns the sum of Rs 2.33 trillion.
Even if this is an election year, the story has been the same for a long time now. The reality is that India is a developing country with multiple competing demands over scarce capital. It is tough to make a case for higher defence allocations without hiving off resources from some other programmes, which, too, require urgent funds. But equally, it is also a reality that India lives in a precarious neighbourhood with two hostile nuclear powers, one of which aims to be a global hegemon and the other is a breeding ground for terrorists. So what can be done?
One, India needs to drastically prune the size of its armed forces. In any case, a large army like ours is more equipped to fight yesterday’s wars and not tomorrow’s, which will require less manpower but greater technological prowess. Two, the armed forces needs to look at its own assets to squeeze in extra resources. Three, the security establishment needs to take a hard look at our war doctrines and defence planning. For instance, one keeps hearing that the IAF needs 42 fighter squadrons to fight a two-front war. If India spends so much money on buying so many aircraft, what will be left for the army and the navy? We need realistic defence planning and war doctrines for the budget we have in real life, not the budget the planners have in their minds.
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