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An interesting research paper by Dinesh Kumar about the prevalent crisis of dearth of the quantity as well as quality of serving Indian military officers. Kumar points out that the Indian military is facing a drop in officer quality due to the counter-insurgency operations, decay of Indian military institutions, corruption within the military especially the army and the perceptions of a military career amongst the Indian youth.
Kumar analyses papers released by the Indian Parliment and the Ministry of Defence and it indeed shows a grip picture, I would point out to the two figures from the paper that I am uploading one showing the shortfall since 1957 and the other a more recent tabulation
It is interesting to note the dire situation of the Indian Air Force which has a stark number of officers committing suicide. The second greatest attrition is from counterinsurgency programmes. India would need to invest considerably in the human capital at par with their modernisation of the military equipment.
Another factor attributing loss is of premature retirement a phenomena that perhaps is new to the institution that inherited the British military tradition (from my own experience of the Pakistani military culture). Please look at figure 3, the Indian army has the greatest number of retirement requests filed from researches in Organistional/Industrial Psychology this is a strong correlative of unsatisfactory job conditions.
The effects of such a decay are on the Indian capability to firmly defend itself as the author suggests; however, that might not be the whole picture, this would lead to a decline in the discipline and professionalism of the military and would eventually trickle down to the entire institution. It is important to note that the author maintains his focus on the ranks from 2nd Lieutenant to Major which are middle ranks and perhaps the most crucial ones.
I am also of the view that third world armies should focus on the Indian situation as India is achieving the technological advantages of a fully Information Age military yet perhaps because of the wider socio-cultural forces it's losing the essential building block of the military.
I would love to have the thoughts of my fellow PDFians on the subject especially Indian professionals, they can enlighten us much more on the phenomena.
The article can be viewed here: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie
An interesting research paper by Dinesh Kumar about the prevalent crisis of dearth of the quantity as well as quality of serving Indian military officers. Kumar points out that the Indian military is facing a drop in officer quality due to the counter-insurgency operations, decay of Indian military institutions, corruption within the military especially the army and the perceptions of a military career amongst the Indian youth.
Kumar analyses papers released by the Indian Parliment and the Ministry of Defence and it indeed shows a grip picture, I would point out to the two figures from the paper that I am uploading one showing the shortfall since 1957 and the other a more recent tabulation
It is interesting to note the dire situation of the Indian Air Force which has a stark number of officers committing suicide. The second greatest attrition is from counterinsurgency programmes. India would need to invest considerably in the human capital at par with their modernisation of the military equipment.
Another factor attributing loss is of premature retirement a phenomena that perhaps is new to the institution that inherited the British military tradition (from my own experience of the Pakistani military culture). Please look at figure 3, the Indian army has the greatest number of retirement requests filed from researches in Organistional/Industrial Psychology this is a strong correlative of unsatisfactory job conditions.
The effects of such a decay are on the Indian capability to firmly defend itself as the author suggests; however, that might not be the whole picture, this would lead to a decline in the discipline and professionalism of the military and would eventually trickle down to the entire institution. It is important to note that the author maintains his focus on the ranks from 2nd Lieutenant to Major which are middle ranks and perhaps the most crucial ones.
I am also of the view that third world armies should focus on the Indian situation as India is achieving the technological advantages of a fully Information Age military yet perhaps because of the wider socio-cultural forces it's losing the essential building block of the military.
I would love to have the thoughts of my fellow PDFians on the subject especially Indian professionals, they can enlighten us much more on the phenomena.
please refer to the article for them.
