You can just look at the changes with in the Army and the wider military, most of it is happening because of external agents or events and is basically reacting to developments. We like to make fun of Chinese xerox copy machines, but if you look at the reforms that we are now undertaking, we seem to be copying the PLA (well not really but we are doing, or trying to do the same things that they have done 5-10-20 years back), like:
- Theatrisation and jointmanship
- Cutting the size (manpower) of the Army by 100k
- IBGs
- Long range artillery/missile systems (PLA 2nd artillery corps)
- investing in cyber, space etc.
Plus pivoting forces towards LAC instead of Pak etc. If the Chinese had not bared their teeth last year, everyone would have been more than happy just watching the CI game go on and pat ourselves in the back for the 2-3 terrorists killed on J&K every week.