look, here we want to discuss, why would India have 600,000 active military on Pakistan border and Pakistan in response 450,000? leave Siachen matter on side for next 5-6 years, but first you would try to find out the reason behind this much gathering of military personnel on Indo-Pak border? you got bad experience on Kargil and you are worried that Siachen can also be occupied if you leave it, there is a point. but why can't you reduce the number on Siachen at least by 50% if Pakistan is now willing to even withdraw its all the troops from there?
I mean, in place of 126, you would by 200 Rafale of F4 version, with 74 for IAC-1 and IAC-2 also, as it is one of the top gun of world and after having its full production line, it will be cheaper to buy also. but whats the reason of paying salary/training/arms etc for 300,000 addition troops on Pakistan border if Pakistan may get ready to withdraw atleast half of their 450,000 active troops deployed on Indo-Pak border? I mean, if you spend $20bil on Army only, out of total $36bil defense budget, to maintain 1.4mil active troops and if you may save even $3bil yearly by reducing its number by 300,000 on Pak border then you will have $1bn every year to buy 10 Rafael more every year from 2015 onward, you will have $500mil more to spend for having 50,000 more marines in your Navy which will double the number of marines you have, you will have $1bn more in your pocket every year to buy one Akula-2 type nuclear submarine every year, and $500mil more to have to buy one more frigate/destroyer every year
you have to get to know that you are spending additional $3bil on Pakistan border for just no reason, if Pakistan may also get agreed to help you by reducing their number by 50%. if both India and Pakistan may reduce their army personnel number by 50% till 2015, then first Pakistan will be able to save upto $2bil every year and at the same time for India, it will then translate in having 50,000 additional Naval military personnel in Indian Navy, 10 more Rafale F4 type aircraft in addition to the current contract from 2015 onward for IAC-1 and IAC-2, with one more Akula-2 type submarine and one frigate or destroyer more every year in your navy. this will then translate Indian Navy into a true Blue Water Navy by 2025 with 3 aircraft carriers, 30 new submarines, 30+30 new frigates and destroyers, if we add already planned modernization of Indian Navy also![]()
Wonderful thoughts.. it appears India & Pakistan have a consultant whom we can rely upon for (in)sane advice.
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. I would ask, why $24bil of total $40bil defense budget of India would be spent on Army only while we still dont have even 100,000 troops on CHina's border? does Indian Army spend this big money only on Pakistan border while threatened with hardly $6bil defense budget of Pakistan? 