Bengal_Tiger
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I've looked online and sources say Afghanistan's military budget is $11.6 billion compared to Pakistan's $7.6 billion.
a: What do members here think of this?
b: Will the Afghan military surpass the Pakistani one, not overall but in certain aspects in the future?
1. I'm not a military specialist but I'd assume that the Pakistani army has a 1/2 a century start on the Afghans and despite the difference in budgets is obviously far bigger than the Afghan one and already has a big fleet of aircraft, a relatively big navy and a very big army, things which the Afghans don't really have bar the large manpower in their army which they have and which they can call upon from their population but the army also includes tanks, APCs.
2. However their current budget is over 50% more than the Pakistani one. Though it doesn't totally guarantee anything as stats are sometimes misleading and some of that budget could be syphoned off in the form of corruption, if we were to assume for the sake of intellectual debate that all of that $11 billion went to their armed forces, what level could they get to at this rate in 5 years time?
3. In different parts of the world smaller countries can invest in technology and match or surpass bigger rivals e.g. Singapore v Malaysia, Israel v the Arabs etc.
4. What does this mean for Pakistan in general and Rawalpindi's dreams of "strategic depth"? It's clear that the Taliban will never rule Afghanistan ever again and the Afghan armed forces are too strong for them and getting stronger and stronger each year and the Taliban themselves are moderating their ideology year by year too (some even have facebook).
@roma @pmaitra @Yusuf
a: What do members here think of this?
b: Will the Afghan military surpass the Pakistani one, not overall but in certain aspects in the future?
1. I'm not a military specialist but I'd assume that the Pakistani army has a 1/2 a century start on the Afghans and despite the difference in budgets is obviously far bigger than the Afghan one and already has a big fleet of aircraft, a relatively big navy and a very big army, things which the Afghans don't really have bar the large manpower in their army which they have and which they can call upon from their population but the army also includes tanks, APCs.
2. However their current budget is over 50% more than the Pakistani one. Though it doesn't totally guarantee anything as stats are sometimes misleading and some of that budget could be syphoned off in the form of corruption, if we were to assume for the sake of intellectual debate that all of that $11 billion went to their armed forces, what level could they get to at this rate in 5 years time?
3. In different parts of the world smaller countries can invest in technology and match or surpass bigger rivals e.g. Singapore v Malaysia, Israel v the Arabs etc.
4. What does this mean for Pakistan in general and Rawalpindi's dreams of "strategic depth"? It's clear that the Taliban will never rule Afghanistan ever again and the Afghan armed forces are too strong for them and getting stronger and stronger each year and the Taliban themselves are moderating their ideology year by year too (some even have facebook).
@roma @pmaitra @Yusuf