Topic: India's army

Damien435 · December 24th, 2004

I am sorry, but I can not help but say this, India and China both put way to much emphasis on numbers, let me site Iraq as an example.

In 1990 Iraq had the world's fourth largest and battle hardened Army, it was ever well equipped, arguable the most powerful nation in the region (including Pakistan and India). But after a 40 day bombing campaign the US led coalition invaded Iraq and the United States suffered only 148 casualties during the entire war, technology counts for a lot and with the way wars are fought today Air Power counts for more than it did in the past. No longer do we need to destroy thousands of homes to try and take our one building but rather we can use one bomb and have a 90% chance of getting the target.

India's Army is plenty large for it's limited uses of the present, Pakistan doesn't appear to be preparing for war and China is pre-occupied in other areas, their economy is on the rise but one glaring problem in the eye's of the western world is the high levels of infanticide and poor treatment of women in rural areas, but at least abortions in India are not dune during birth, unlike their neighbor to the east. (China)

BTW? Do all these numbers people throw out there include Reserves? National Guard? etc.? Because I am pretty sure that they US, including all reserves, has almost four million people who could be considered part of the military, and China and India have many more than that. Are you guys just including combat troops or support also? I can not see countries the size of India and China only having 1.2-1.4 million man army's, North Korea has a one million man army but they pay a very, very heavy price for it.

December 24th, 2004
Damien435 Tribunus Laticlavius Gear	I am sorry, but I can not help but say this, India and China both put way to much emphasis on numbers, let me site Iraq as an example. In 1990 Iraq had the world's fourth largest and battle hardened Army, it was ever well equipped, arguable the most powerful nation in the region (including Pakistan and India). But after a 40 day bombing campaign the US led coalition invaded Iraq and the United States suffered only 148 casualties during the entire war, technology counts for a lot and with the way wars are fought today Air Power counts for more than it did in the past. No longer do we need to destroy thousands of homes to try and take our one building but rather we can use one bomb and have a 90% chance of getting the target. India's Army is plenty large for it's limited uses of the present, Pakistan doesn't appear to be preparing for war and China is pre-occupied in other areas, their economy is on the rise but one glaring problem in the eye's of the western world is the high levels of infanticide and poor treatment of women in rural areas, but at least abortions in India are not dune during birth, unlike their neighbor to the east. (China) BTW? Do all these numbers people throw out there include Reserves? National Guard? etc.? Because I am pretty sure that they US, including all reserves, has almost four million people who could be considered part of the military, and China and India have many more than that. Are you guys just including combat troops or support also? I can not see countries the size of India and China only having 1.2-1.4 million man army's, North Korea has a one million man army but they pay a very, very heavy price for it. __________________ Please note that 98% of what I say is my opinion and/or my "version" of the facts. Most of what I say is rumor with little to no evidence to back it up, just something I picked up somewhere. My City