Re: Govt clears posting of 40,000 soldiers along China border
two news agencies brought this news first.. one claims 40,000 troops and the other claims 50,000 troops
indian media, what else you can expect.
any way, on eastern front we are much better than on northern front, have myself viewed how good army is stationed on Tawang area, but we realy lack infra on arunachal front, we cannot have defence industry so close to border as someone suggested, too risky.
mostly defence industry must be further from front but our infra should be so good we can maintain logistic during needs.
we can do store large amount of ammo, such as build massive bunkers in army/airforce bases in assam.
when my father was posted on leh, he also mentioned that we lack infra on this front on much larger scale.
to solve chinese threat to some extent, we need to go into self sufficient in defence sector and start making few components in much larger scale.
As we are to take on enemy on western front but hold off one from north, we need larger amount of artillery, transport equipment, surveillance and early warning and better infra on northern front.
Instead of going for upgraded for older T-72 and waste money on then, i would replace T-72 fully by arjun tanks for western front.
Use T-72 hull to make APC and move BMP-2's to norther front.
need 20-30 C130's, 20-C-17's., 10-C130 in chandigarh (which i believe is transport hub for AF), 10 in west bengal for N-E and 10 in MP.
Give contract to Tata to make APC's and Mahindra to make MPV's.
1000 OFB Bofors, just select tata's wheeled mounted artillery, give tracked one to L&T.
Use special or armed forces to take out naxals and N-E rebels first as they are all indian nationals but supported by chinese, we need to get rid of these internal threat with iron fist, hell with media, just do media black out, give them ultimatum of talks and lay arms else kill them.
when we don't face any such problem, we will be better prepared to take external threats.
