stop fixating with these rankings,it's highly deceptive.
first thing that comes to mind,can India pull back all soldiers,paramilitaries and weaponries from western theater,north east counter insurgency and anti maoist operations ? Doing so is suicidal.
There is truth in your arguments but not complete truth.
The truth is hidden in details .
CRPF is a 245 battalion Internal security force. Not all of them are deployed. But leave them aside.
There are 315 border guarding CAPF battalions. Only half of them remains deployed and the other half are turnover / training battalions. In the time of National emergencies, there should not be turnover or training battalions. Army also deploys it complete force and so should the CAPF.
It is only a matter of adjustment to concentrate the available CAPF battalions at intended time and place.
You have not taken thousands of Armed police battalions with state.
No border is required to be thinned from existing levels but still one can make 150 battalions vailable for a particular border if situation so demands..
and how long India will be able to blockade Malacca straight ?......given the sheer numerical and technical superiority of the PLAAN ?
It is a higher level of conflict scenario which would probably involve quad.
But the bottomline is China will never go for a conventional war,this is an era of asymmetric warfare,if the relationship deteriorates,it will return back to what it always did in the past,ie,sponsor insurgency in N.E and create political instability so that Indian military simply gets bogged down with internal conflicts.
It is no longer NE of 1960s or 70s. But that probability exists.
Until and unless India fixes the basics(builds an economic parity with a strong industrial base)these quick fix measures like positioning rafales and other imported weapons is simply useless.
That is a big fallacy that one need to be economically very strong to launch military campaigns and succeed. History tell us something else. India was never captured by Economically superior powers including the British but militarily superior forces even if they were ribals lize Turks or Mongols. China was not an economically superior power in 1962.
India is just so heavily reliant on China,so much so that they can not only harm us economically but can completely put our economy to a grinding halt, if they wish to do so.
Absolutely an overstatement. If Indian industry picks up in manufacturing the Industry can provide consumables at competitive prices. Chinese are not proving us any Martian technology. Only cheap material.