Budget Brings Dismay for Defence

It does not require any pre-eminent strategic advice to a government to pontificate that requisite military strengths and combat capabilities of a nation take inordinately long to achieve. That India is located in one of the most geo-politically stressed regions in the world with two of its neighbours, both nuclear powers, individually and collusively posing a serious threat to India’s security is a well-accepted truism. It is also a harsh reality that nations, even among the affluent, find it more than difficult, if not impossible, to allocate adequate resources for funding other countless basic necessities required for their peoples.Read More…