I am revising the figures, to include the support echelons, as someone will accuse me of cooking the books; the originals are crossed out, so that readers can see precisely what I'm doing.
1 Infantry Battalion = 1000 instead of 500 (rather than the four companies plus HQ staff, counting 15 per section, 45 per platoon, 135, even 180 per company, 6 companies, say, 1,080 per battalion)
3 battalions + support - communications, medical, logistics - or
1 Brigade = 3,500, and
1 Division = 3 Brigades + 4,500 support = 15,000
I regret to inform you that the limitation is yours. Here are the figures; see for yourself, and please hereafter refrain from copying the circle of baying dogs that bark out these figures by rote. I have, personally, a higher opinion of you than that, and hope that the figures will shock you into a realisation of how stupidly irresponsible and wholly concocted numbers have been taken up and misused.
Command: Northern Command (Udhampur)
Corps: XIV - Leh - Defence of Siachen,
Defence of Line of Actual Control (China),
Defence of LOC (Kargil)
Division: 3rd Infantry Division - Leh = 10000 (
3,000):
Division: 8th Mountain Division - Dras = 30000(
6,000):
1 Independent Infantry Brigade = 5000 (Siachen)
45000
Corps: XV - Srinagar -
Defence of LOC, Jammu and Kashmir
Counter-insurgency
Division: 19th Infantry Division - Baramula = 15000(
4,500):
28th Infantry Division - Gurez = 15000(
4,500):
Rashtriya Rifles (for COIN operations only)
Victor Force (13 x 600 =) 7800
Kilo Force (13 x 600 =) 7800
45600
(including all the cooks, clerks, drivers and mechanics, medical staff, telecommunications staff, military police, you name it)
Corps: XVI – Nagrota
Defence of LOC,
Defence of International Border
Counter-insurgency
Division: 10th Infantry Division – Akhnoor 15000 (
4,500): 3 Infantry Brigades + 25th Infantry Division – Rajouri 15000 (
4,500): 3 Infantry Brigades + 39th Infantry Division – Yol 15000 (
4,500): 3 Infantry Brigades ++ Rashtriya Rifles (for COIN operations only)
Romeo Force (13 x 600 =) 7800
Delta Force (13 x 600 = ) 7800
60600
Notes:
- Some information has been restricted; independent artillery brigades have been shown, but other independent brigades attached to the Corps reserve have not been shown.
- The + and ++ signs are approximate increases in numbers of independent brigades that have not been shown.
- The Corps wise numbers are:
- XIV Corps - 45000 +
- XV Corps - 45600 +
- XVI Corps - 60600 +
- Rashtriya Rifles are drawn from all combat arms of the Army. Additional formations of RR battalions have been raised in each regiment, and it is these that are assigned Counter-insurgency duties. They are all regimental troops.
- There are 65 battalions of 600 men each. They are divided into Victor, Kilo, Romeo and Delta, and an additional Uniform Force.
- The total, including specialist Counter-Insurgency troops, is slightly over 70,000 men. I am informed by Kaptaan that the Pakistanis, not the Indians, invented '0'; that might explain the discrepancy, of 70,000 vs. 700,000.
This discrepancy is why I feel irritated by senior people who don't pause to do their homework but just pick up whatever silly figure is floating around and throw it into a discussion.
PS: I was asked by a reviewer to include Central Armed Police and J&K Armed Police (not regular police); that would add 100,000 rifles.
I really feel sorry for you, dealing with that r*tard. Congratulations on keeping your sense of humour throughout the encounter.