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India is unable to fight a two front war with Pakistan and China

Indian military despite all its bluster still cannot hold back its two principle adversaries at bay.

Difficult to face joint China-Pak threat: IAF - Hindustan Times

Difficult to face joint China-Pak threat: IAF
Rahul Singh, Hindustan Times New Delhi, February 18, 2014

First Published: 22:46 IST(18/2/2014) | Last Updated: 00:40 IST(19/2/2014)

The Indian Air Force has dropped a bomb with its alarming admission that it will be difficult for it to tackle a combined threat from China and Pakistan, raising questions about the country's ability to fight a two-front war.

The IAF has told a Parliamentary panel that Pakistan would certainly fish in troubled waters if China were to launch offensive operations against India. It, however, stressed that China may not pose "a collusive threat" if hostilities were to break out between India and Pakistan.

Setting off alarm bells, a senior IAF officer informed the Parliamentary standing committee on defence that a "collusive threat" from China and Pakistan would be difficult to tackle but the air force was prepared for it.


"We have made plans in case of contingency-III (two-front war)," he said, adding that India had upgraded its policy against China from dissuasion to deterrence.

The IAF currently operates 34 fighter squadrons, against a desirable 42. In a report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, the panel asked the IAF to scale up its capabilities by speeding up the acquisition of 126 French Rafale fighters, a deal worth Rs. 120,000 crore.

The panel flagged concerns about poor border infrastructure on the Indian side, at a time when China has ramped road, rail and air connectivity across the line of actual control (LAC).

The panel warned that the pace of China's military modernisation and infrastructure development had affected the "strategic balance" between the two countries.

"Our defence forces must develop the capability to fight a multi-front war," the panel said. India is years behind the Chinese military with the neighbour currently outnumbering the country's combat power by a 3:1 ratio. India's hopes to bridge the gap in the next 15 years hinge on availability of funds.

Finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday announced that the defence budget for 2014-15 had been hiked from Rs. 203,672 crore to Rs. 224, 000 crore, a 10% increase over last fiscal's outlay.

However, the meagre increase in the capital expenditure could hit the modernisation plans of the armed forces. The capital outlay has been increased from Rs. 86,740 crore to Rs. 89,587 crore in the interim budget for 2014-15, a hike of barely 3.2%.

China's official, but underreported, defence budget for 2013-14 stands at Rs. 594,000 crore.

They are both pretty much "at bay".

They keep claiming our territories, one in Kashmir, and the other in Arunachal and we continue to retain both those terrorities despite their decades of attempts. We don't need to keep them at any more bay.
 
there will never be a two front war...if china enters in it so wil the americans and the rest of south asia...
so its a myth which is being potrayed to the indian government to increase the defence budget...simple logic..!

American military doctrine is against any sort of ground incursion in the Asia. At most there will be sanction on Pakistan and China after they carve up India. :lol:
 
I doubt if there is a war, it will be just three countries involved. Anyway, all countries are sane enough to realize the economic cost of going to war does not justify the end result.
 
to be honest , Indian biggest threat is that they are getting close with US .... and history speak for itself , those who are US allies are fcuked up ... and in the end find themselves completely in inhalation


i beg to differ....! its not the allies who have sufferd, its the slave allies who suffer...the country which bows down to them suffer....we hv nvr done tht nor wil we do it in the near future, we are not pak, uk or canada...
ITS OUR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY....! :)
 
to be honest , Indian biggest threat is that they are getting close with US .... and history speak for itself , those who are US allies are fcuked up ... and in the end find themselves completely in inhalation

Most European countries, Israel, Japan and South Korea are allied with the US and have done remarkably well. Countries that have messed up owe it to their own inefficiency and corrupt government.
 
i beg to differ....! its not the allies who have sufferd, its the slave allies who suffer...the country which bows down to them suffer....we hv nvr done tht nor wil we do it in the near future, we are not pak, uk or canada...
ITS OUR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY....! :)

dude ... i respect your patriotism.... i am not talking about USA give you a Direct " Dhamki ."
the white race will never allow anyone to surpass them...
and where ever US goes , AQ follow :D that's the pattern ...
 
American military doctrine is against any sort of ground incursion in the Asia. At most there will be sanction on Pakistan and China after they carve up India. :lol:


we wont even let the americans enter our soil....
air and navy is more than enuf....lol
 
to be honest , Indian biggest threat is that they are getting close with US .... and history speak for itself , those who are US allies are fcuked up ... and in the end find themselves completely in inhalation

Can you cite some examples where the US allies are fucked up?
 
Most European countries, Israel, Japan and South Korea are allied with the US and have done remarkably well. Countries that have messed up owe it to their own inefficiency and corrupt government.

Israel is different , japan is nothing but puppets of USA like Germany ....and S.korea has not big as India along with a 100 Active N weapons ... USA can easily hold Japan korae and EU , but Indians intentions are not to stay under US umbrella ..

Can you cite some examples where the US allies are fucked up?

lol sure ... Look at us , KSA , along with whole ME ....
ME was much better before US come in this region ..
 
dude ... i respect your patriotism.... i am not talking about USA give you a Direct " Dhamki ."
the white race will never allow anyone to surpass them...
and where ever US goes , AQ follow :D that's the pattern ...


see the proofs and facts be it the WTO or the ambassador incident or the latest sactions on iran....we stand tall and always defied america...where uk canada aus and other EU keep bowing dwn to them....
 
see the proofs and facts be it the WTO or the ambassador incident or the latest sactions on iran....we stand tall and always defied america...where uk canada aus and other EU keep bowing dwn to them....

because till now US wouldnt have eyes on you ...
right now they see you as possible market for their products . businesses ....
 
because till now US wouldnt have eyes on you ...
right now they see you as possible market for their products . businesses ....

and why is that bad for us? A lot of US companies have their subsidiaries in India and both countries have benefited as a result.
 

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