India Scales Up Military Forces On Disputed China Border -- Christian Science Monitor
India is creating a mountain strike corps of 90,000 soldiers along the 2,000-mile stretch. Just last year Chinese troops entered territory claimed by India, sparking a three-week standoff.
India is raising a new mountain strike corps of nearly 90,000 soldiers to strengthen its defense along its disputed border with China in the high reaches of the Himalayas.
China will be a top foreign policy challenge for Narendra Modi, the incoming prime minister who won a landslide victory last week. Business ties between India and China are booming. But despite rounds of talks, the two countries have yet to resolve their decades-old dispute over the 2,000-mile border between the two countries. It remains one of the most militarized borders in the world.
The strike corps will have its own mountain artillery, combat engineers, anti-aircraft guns, and radio equipment. Over 35,000 soldiers have already been raised in new infantry units in India's northeastern state of Assam. The entire corps will be fully raised over the next five years with 90,274 troops at a cost of $10.6 billion. The proposal to raise a new strike corps was recommended last year by India’s China Study Group, a government body that considers all strategic issues related to China.
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My Comment: I guess the Indians have figured out that with China being aggressive against all of it's neighbors when it comes to it's borders .... it will be only a matter of time before they start to be aggressive on the Indo-Sino border. Best to be prepared when that day finally comes.
2 comments:
90,000 troops along a 2,000 mile stretch? Hahahhaha!
Goodluck with that, they'll need more than 90k soldiers.
I bet the logistics along that 2k mile stretch will be a complete nightmare.
I'm nowhere near a tough
guy, but I dealt with a
gang of bullies in Jr. High
by clobbering one of them
with a broom after he
popped me with a stick.
The little glint of
madness in my eyes that
day was all it took to
keep them away forever.
China has to think India
is just crazy enough to
fight back with an excess
of force and they'll find
weaker neighbors to pick
on.
ofs
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