This question is coming up again and again on DFI.. i don't think budget allocation alone should define the success or failure...
a good way would be to find out how much was spent on procurement(both revenue and capital), and how much of it was domestic and foreign procurement.
if anyone knows a good website/dataset which provides this information, i can have a look at it.
Surely that needs to be looked in. But the above figures are inclusive of these figures hence overall growth in defense budget is still just above inflation.
More importantly we are overweight on personnel and lightweight on modern equipment.
This makes a terrible duo. On one hand it handicaps our offensive capabilities and forces us on defensive on the other hand wage growth will eat up most of the growth of allocation.
As manpower becomes more expensive and subsequent pay commission wreck havoc on budget army need to slim down to essential.
We need to double down on airforce to become a truly modern military power otherwise we'll be playing defensive forever.
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