You all are welcome to state your cases with regard to India/s military capability as an outcome of comprehensive national power.
The notion of military capability as the output level of national power is premised on the understanding that a country’s military organizations receive national resources and transform them into specific warfighting capabilities.
The warfighting capabilities thus generated are effective to the degree that they enable a country’s leaders to impose their will on enemies, existing and potential.
Thus, the larger logical framework developed for examining national power can be applied writ small to examining how national military establishments generate effective military forces.
Put simply, the question is, “What resources does the military get, and how successfully can they be transformed into effective military power?” Military effectiveness thus becomes the outcome of the resources provided to the military and its capability to transform these resources into effective warfighting capability.
A country may provide its military with generous budgets and large cadres of manpower, but if the military’s doctrine is misguided, the training ineffective, the leadership unschooled, or the organization inappropriate, military capability will suffer.
* India has No comprehensive National Security directive. All are blinds and fighting with a well-articulated aim. Defence Secretary of India who assumes a weight of a thousand tons under Indian bureaucratic ego and status-driven false superstructure by claiming he is responsible for "Defence of India" has so far failed to outline national aim and interests over 74 years.
* Our National Security Setup and its leaders are unschooled and untrained. Anyone can have a contrarian view on that but I feel our MEA bosses, IAS bosses, IPS Cops , the Intelligence community and military leadership are neither formally trained nor schooled to handle the national security apparatus in a co-joint and single-minded pursuits. Instead, national security apparatus has become a platform to pursue intergroup and inter-organizational rivalries such as IB Vs R&AW, Army Vs Navy Vs IAF, Vs CAPF and IPS lobby Vs MEA Vs IAS. They all meet to jockey for more money and more status rather than to manage national security.
* The National security apparatus under NSA is inadequate and inappropriate. So far it has suffered from typical Indian malice where MEA and IPS loobies would not like Brijesh Mishra to succeed and MEA , IAS lobby would like see Ajit Doval to fail.. There is no place for defence force there in the country as large as India and having as vast and varied military challenges .as no one else in the world.
No amount of money can ameliorate this critical deficiency.. where a COAS is called Galli Ka Gunda for internal political scores.. where Rajiv Gandhi threatens a former COAS Rodrigues by stating that he does know even ten per cent what constitutes security..
Under such National Security culture who will stick his neck out... Nationa Security is thus determined by Lutiyan's Delhi where people like Dik shit or Pramod Tiwari determine India's military response to China..
Money is essential but not everything.. the vital or core of India's security structure is rotten..Subramaniam or Naresh Chandra are in dust bin.. it is business as usual.. Only Indian Armed forces have been sent to have some loose motions..
