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| Indian Armed Forces' strike power to be improved to puncture terrorists' balloons | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 2: Apart from building 75 tactically and strategically important roads all along the border with China-India, despite its search for friendly relations with Beijing, has plans of augmenting and optimising force application capability in order to meet any threat from across the LAC, particulary in North East and Ladakh.
Under the five-year long plan the Indian armed forces were being provided with all possible technical and financial support for addressing logistic voids for enhancing logistic capability, enhance mobilisation for ensuring quick reaction capability in aviation.
Official sources reveal that the Army, Air Force and the Navy were being assisted in improving and developing wide area network and satellite communication network in order to transform the Indian force from a large standing lumbering Army to a more lethal, nimble and technologically savvy entity capable of meeting future challenges.
While improving its air and land war machinery there is a plan for setting up mountain strike corps which may either be stationed in the north east or in Ladakh, to begin with. And if there was need more such units were to be established to meet growing challenges from China that had taken long strides in the development of war machinery, missile and nuclear technology.
Defence experts, including senior retired Army officers, have suggested to the Government of India that the only way to force China to accept India's offer for promoting cordial ties was to develop the strike power of the Indian Army and the Air Force.
These experts have also recommended that once India developed and upgraded its security grid on the entire border with China it would help New Delhi in giving teeth to its arsenal that it would require in puncturing the terrorists' balloons and counter any mischief from Pakistan.
Official sources made it clear that since India had no extra territorial ambition it was simply upgrading its fire power to meet any challenge from those neighbours that have demonstrated extra-territorial ambition during the last several years.
No doubt India has been forced to divert much needed funds from productive sectors, including those sectors which are connected with power, irrigation, health and education development, to the defence sector it has done so simply to check any evil designs of its neighbours.
The sources said that during the last one decade or so New Delhi has been following the policy of building bridges with Islamabad and Beijing. Though there has been some improvement in the bilateral relations the level of trust deficit is yet to be reduced.
Indications are that several rounds of talks, at various levels, between India and China and between New Delhi and Islamabad were in the pipeline. Government circles believe that the improvement in Indo-Pak ties was linked with the attitude of China. In case China did not provoke Islamabad to remain on the offensive one can expect better ties between the two sides in the near future. |
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