Stephen Cohen
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You don't win wars by huge ill equipped army,rather a bit smaller army more well equipped.More numbers you have more maintainence,salary,pensions and equipping costs -these eat away at budget for R & D and actual hardware acquisitions.This mass man approach is 20th century concept,not a 21st century age of special forces, precision munitions-digital battlefield.
Our southern command is clearly overbloated and such large forces are not needed there but closer to the borders.So instead of raising more and more regiments and increasing the financial strain -we should redeploy some of these assets.
Instead of huge numbers we should increase the firepower of the existing units with more artillery,PGMs,Army air aviation assets,new assault rifles etc.
All modern armies like russia,usa,china have moved towards this trend,India does possess a huge paramilitary force.And delhi is pipe dream,in case of total war both opponents will be destroyed by nuclear attacks.
Sir You write very good War Histories but you are out of tune with the reality of Indian sub continent
My questions are
1 Why does Pakistan have such a huge number of Armed Militias and Armed Civilians
what is their role and purpose ( Nearly Ten Million Men can be mobilised )
2 Southern Command is just the name of the Command whose formations
ie men and equipment are based in Southern India
Their Area of Responsibility is the border of Gujarat and Rajasthan
3 Large numbers do not mean ill equiped
have you seen what have the AK 47 and RPG wielding Iraqis and Afghans done to US soldiers
And EACH US soldier has 100 Thousand USD worth of equipment on his body
NVG; Body Armour ; Satellite connections and still blown up by IED s and shot by RPGs and AK 47
Why because they were overwhelmed by huge numbers
4 Do you know what they say about Mountains in the Army
Mountains ABSORB Manpower at an unbelievable rate
Indian borders in the LOC ; LAC are all mountainous
5 Firepower is essential ; there is No doubt about it
But if you have dont have sufficient man power ; you can be easily OUT flanked
The enemy will get behind you and you will never know
You also need Manpower for rear area operations and getting behind enemy lines
Just a case in point : The Three tier LOC Grid is heavily manned and still
terrorists sneak in
So the same thing can happen in a war on the International Border