Is it possible in the future to have Marine Corps?? Since all our immediate neighbours have a dedicated Marine Corps, including pakis stationed near Sir Creek area, I guess that area and sundarbans in Indo-bangladeshi border is the only area where India can use its Marine Corps in an expedition state.
Funny thing is that, we have an entire ocean named after us and number of islands to upkeep in both the sides and yet we don't have a dedicated Marine Corps, due to the already sad state of our Tri-services!!
Even Mexico, South Korea, Sri Lanka have dedicated Marine Corps
Everyone has, not as big as US Marine Corps. But they do have, we only have a few battalions of Indian Army converted for Amphibious warfare.
Chinese Marines have 20,000 troops.
Pak Marines have 3,500 troops and planning to make it 10,000.
We must have a separate 4th Branch of Indian Armed Forces based on USMC called the Indian Marine Corps. With 50,000-1,00,000 personnel (coz this large is sensible considering we have Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sundarbans, bases in Seychelles, Maldives, Mauritius, Madagascar, Vietnam etc.
So we need a larger force and equipping them should not be a problem as obviously MoD will equip them with imported Kalashnikovs or AR Pattern rifles that come inexpensive And importing will further reduce cost, or maybe an Indian Private firm made small arms package, who knows.
coz we are/will be already making AK-203, Carbine (CAR-816), Negev LMG, Snipers, Arad, Carmel, P72, Tavors, Uzis, Galils etc.
we are already making tanks, artillery, AFVs, Bulletproof vehicles, FICVs, helicopters, gunships, small arms and accessories, drones, bulletproof gear etc in India so an indigenously armed force won’t cost too much imo, as CAPFs are mostly armed with Indigenous equipments (Except bulgarian AK-47s but they are also less costly) thats why they don’t eat up huge sum of money like the armed forces.
We neet to increase our defence budget even though we aren’t a rich country but god gave us a hostile neighbourhood.
as I have seen Bangladeshis,
THEY HATE INDIA TO THE CORE!
They hate their own PM Sheikh Haseena so we can expect friendly relations until sheikh haseena ji is the PM who is pro-India and pro neighbourhood but if pro Bangladeshi agenda government arrives in Bangladesh then we may have similar hostilities with bangladesh as almost all Bangladesh hate India and its People and Love Porkistan Even when we Indians don’t hate them.
Myanmar is friendly but in future hostilities may grow due to Rohingya crisis.
I have seen Nepalis on Social Media abusing India because it didn’t helped us and is stopping oil etc, but Nepal won’t be a hostile neighbour even if a pro china government is there.
Srilankan government(s) mostly remains pro-china even when majority of SriLankans love India so we can’t risk, our whole neighbourhood is growing hostile.
your thoughts?
