Indias current army strength

India’s armed forces look good on paper. It fields the world’s second-biggest standing army, after China, with long fighting experience in a variety of terrains and situations. It has topped the list of global arms importers since 2010, sucking in a formidable array of top-of-the-line weaponry, including Russian warplanes, Israeli missiles, American transport aircraft and French submarines. State-owned Indian firms churn out some impressive gear, too, including fighter jets, cruise missiles and the 40,000-tonne aircraft-carrier under construction in...

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Indias current army strength

India’s armed forces look good on paper. It fields the world’s second-biggest standing army, after China, with long fighting experience in a variety of terrains and situations. It has topped the list of global arms importers since 2010, sucking in a formidable array of top-of-the-line weaponry, including Russian warplanes, Israeli missiles, American transport aircraft and French submarines. State-owned Indian firms churn out some impressive gear, too, including fighter jets, cruise missiles and the 40,000-tonne aircraft-carrier under construction in...

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India raging terror on broken militia

To many Indians, their country’s strategic position looks alarming. Its two biggest neighbours are China and Pakistan. It has fought wars with both, and border issues still fester. Both are nuclear-armed, and are allies with one another to boot. China, a rising superpower with five times India’s GDP, is quietly encroaching on India’s traditional sphere of influence, tying a “string of pearls” of alliances around the subcontinent. Relatively weak...

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FORGOTTEN PROMISES & DEFUNCT DOGMAS: - IS KASHMIR BEING PUSHED TO AN ARMED STRUGGLE?

      “Absence of International Collective Conscience Is What Breeds Armed Struggles” Che Guevara Popular Uprising, Public Revolt or National Mutiny, there many words found in the English Language for a phenomenon more commonly referred to as an Armed Struggle. Armed Struggle is a Movement Supplemented by Violence and undertaken by a National Entity for the achievement of defined Political Objectives. Though romanticized...

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