Know your Army: Judged and Misjudged

Journal of Defense Studies and Resource Management is a scholarly peer-reviewed, academic journal that publishes original research articles undergoing peer review process with the help of experts in the field of Defense Studies.

The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The primary mission of the Indian Army is to ensure national security and unity, defending the nation from external aggression and threats, and maintaining peace and security within its borders. It conducts humanitarian rescue operations during natural calamities and other disturbances, like Operation Surya Hope, and can also be requisitioned by the government to cope with internal threats. The Indian Army has played a crucial role in the past, fighting insurgents and terroristswithin the nation.

The army has strength of about a million troops and fields 35 Divisions within 13 Corps. Its headquarters is located in the Indian capital New Delhi and it is under the overall command of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), currently General Dalbir Singh Suhag. Initially, the army’s main objective was to defend the nation’s frontiers. However, over the years, the army has also taken up the responsibility of providing internal security, especially in insurgent-hit Kashmir and the Northeast. Recently it has been proposed to enhance the strength of the army by more than 90,000 to counter the increasing presence of Chinese troops along the LOC. Did we, the civilian know any of these organisations, whether the PAST or THE PRESENT, not even THE FUTURE!

The ignorance among the civilians of Indian Army is an absolute reality which majority Indian don’t know.

No actual ground realities misjudgement among the population resided in the disturbed area. Insurgency, instability, indirect war is doomed to create a situation where mostly the Indian Army takes over to stabilised any threats or situations. Essentially because there is no clear enemy and there is no war front. Each house is a potential nest of insurgents in certain areas where we termed as the disturbed area, each person becomes a suspect. The situations there in Kashmir or Northeast India, it is because of selfish moves of India’s troublesome neighbours.

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Andrew James
Journal of Defense Studies and Resource Management
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