As for china my 2 cents:
1. China don't have suicidal tendencies they will never attack till they are 200% sure of victory without Russian/US interventions. After all they have to maintain their image and become super power.
2. China always uses its proxies.
3. And honestly we don't have anything to deploy at India-china border.
4. As we are getting new thinks we are deploying them for china
a.) Our most of the UAVs are deployed
b.) North East is not only the area where India -China shares a border.
Do you know the distance of Tibet from our Su 30 MKI base in Bareilly is about 200 kms.
c.) Our C-17 Globemaster III are for china.
d.) Our C-130 Hercules are for china.
e.) Our CH-47 Chinook are for china.
f.) Our M777 is for china.
g.) We have deployed Smerch - 9A52 & Pinaka for china.
h.) We are buying light tanks for china.
i.) We are raising 2 mountain divisions, 1 artillery.
j.) 40,000 BSF, 39,000 CRPF, 30,000 Assam Rifles. So army can be free for china.
k.) Arunachal and Sikkim Scouts' battalions with 5,000 soldiers each.
l.) Building dozens of air stips, airports, 100 helipad, thousands of kilometer of roads, hindeds of kilometer of rail network.
There are many more projects and acquisitions we can't disclose here.
Who said China is going to attack ?? Its your own countrymen who are taking China as a thread as if China is gonna attack. China never said that. Last time also, India was the major player in instigating the 62 war, China gave you guys back all the territory captured, even gave you guys back the equipment and ammo captured. Thus it shows they have no threatening posture against you guys, while your COAS talks about 2 prolonged strategy of fighting the Chinese and Pak at the same time, and here the Indian members think China as a threat.
So you are gonna use C-130s, C-17 Globe masters, CH-47s to bomb China ?? Common, they are transport assets which are gonna be used anywhere needed, and they will be deployed where extreme emergency is, whether it be China border or Pakistan border.
M777 will be coming to Kashmir and will be firing on Pakistani positions, bet on it.
Smerch and Pinaka are so far Pakistan specific and majority of them, rather nearly all of them are stationed with troops facing Pakistan, not China. If one unit is facing China, and rest 50 towards Pakistan, it doesn't makes them China centric.
All the troops you have mentioned are Para-military forces, not army. And even if they are added to the new mountain divisions being raised, strength would be somewhere 100,000-150,000 troops. So out of 1.3M+ strong Army, only 30,000-40,000 facing China, leave aside para-military forces, so where is rest of the 1.2M strong army gone ?? Hint: Pakistan-India border.
So end result is, that out of 100%, if 5% or 10% is on Chinese border, it doesn't makes it China centric, rather see to it that where is the other 95% or 90% of the forces.
Hope, this is more then enough to tell, that contrary to what you guys think, the facts on the ground say something else, that is for now and in coming years, Indian forces would be Pakistan centric, while preparing for China centric, but not specific China centric for now.
, his context was different but fair enough.
