In 2021, India s Military Faces Myriad Challenges
While the standoff with China will dominate the operational agenda for all three services in 2021, they will also have to cope with equipment and resource shortages.
Army soldiers stand guard at snow-bound Zojila Pass, situated at a height of 11,516 feet, on its way to frontier region in Ladakh. Photo: PTI
Security13/Jan/2021
New Delhi: The operational prognosis for Indiaâs military in the New Year is, to put it mildly, perilous.
It faces enhanced and relentless deployment along its unresolved and restive frontiers against belligerent nuclear and military allies, China and Pakistan and will continue to be hobbled by enduring critical equipment, ammunition and ordnance shortages. It also has to battle a declining defence budget and reorient its outdated doctrinal and warfighting strategies to meet 21st century challenges.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would attend the Veterans Day of the armed forces here on Thursday with Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, an official said on Wednesday."Singh and Rawat will attend the Veterans Day meet at the Air .
BSF detects cross-border tunnels in J-K ANI | Updated: Jan 13, 2021 15:18 IST
Kathua (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], January 13 (ANI): The Border Security Force (BSF) has detected two tunnels here in Kathua and Sambha districts on Wednesday. Border Security Force detects a tunnel along the international border in Hiranagar sector of Kathua. More details awaited, officials said.
In another tweet, the BSF said, Alert BSF troops detected a tunnel in the Samba Sector of Jammu; thwarting the nefarious designs of Pakistan.
This news comes around a time when Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat is on a visit to Jammu and Kashmir.