Hey, how does their military stand? What's up with the pakistani conflict(s)?

From what I know ( although I'm not the supreme expert on this ) is that India has a big and capable military, I'm not completely sure of the numbers but around 1.5 million or more, I think.

Although this army is big the infrastucture itself isn't put together that well, meaning the entities for repairing, maintaining and retraining isn't up to par with the size of this army, which leads to alot of dilapidated equipment.

As far as their equipment it's a mix of Russian and Western made weapons. Their heavy equipment such as tanks and stuff being primarily Russian made. Their smallers arms are a mix of AK's and Western assault rifles and MG's. Suprisingly they still use the Bren light mg used by the British during WWII, although it's a modern version of it, the design is still the same banana clip up top.

They seem to have a good special forces branch with good equipment. And they employ Gurkhas to fight for them. They also have a large para-military brach.

Their army command structure is British based I believe, but I don't know whether their military doctrine is British based or Russian based or a little bit of both.

As far as the Pakistan conflict goes, it really boils down to a Muslim vs. Hindu conflict. The point of contention is Kashmir, a very rich land area, which is owned by India and is governed by those loyal to India mostly Hindus, the population however is mostly Muslim and would like to break off and join Pakistan. So what they do is launch terrorist attack against India which are supported by Pakistan. The Indians now blame the Pakistanis which escalates tension leading sometimes to full blown conflict in the area.

Their Army number about 980,000 members, which are formed In 34 divisions. They also have 300,000 members In researve, and 500,000 second line personel.

I suggest reading the following link for everything you need:
http://globalsecurity.org/military/w...dia/index.html

The idea of all-out war with India scares the crap out of Pakistan. Its one of the reasons that the world looked the other way when Pakistan developed its own nuclear weapons program.

A great nation!

Not to mention on top of that is that India probably has some of those Fakir and Siddhi, they are those really powerful Hindu guys who people claim they can do magic and all that, you know, those guys that stick their head under sand for like 5 days, and they make people think they see things that aren't really there, i would never want to fight someone like that.

Indian airforce is modern and powerfull, can be said in Top 5 in the world.

Indian Navy is growing strong too, in Top 6 no doubt.

Indian land force is OK, some with very good equips some not.

Give India another 10 years, they will be Top4 or Top5 in general militarily.

Pakistan:
Pakistan does not worry too much about India, their president said:
If Pakistan is invaded, they will nuke the invaders, so safety gurrantted.

Indian people are good people.

Pakistan's army cannot be trusted, If Mussharef goes that Army could find itself serving a theocracy.

Three nations with amazing military potential based on population and resources: India, China and Russia. They are sitting one right on top of the other. India is much further from having developed its potential military strength than the other two, but I find it interesting that they are grouped so closely together. Both India and Russia have had some border skirmishes or wars with China in the fairly recent past. Could it be said that India and Russia are a balancing factor to China in the region and vice versa?

Originally Posted by godofthunder9010

Three nations with amazing military potential based on population and resources: India, China and Russia. They are sitting one right on top of the other. India is much further from having developed its potential military strength than the other two, but I find it interesting that they are grouped so closely together. Both India and Russia have had some border skirmishes or wars with China in the fairly recent past. Could it be said that India and Russia are a balancing factor to China in the region and vice versa?

I don't think Russia is based on population. Russian population is about 1/3 of USA, yet Russia has a decent (extremly advanced) military technology).

China is more advanced than India in military tech in almost all aspects.
But India does have more options for aquiring weapons than China has (mainly from Russia).

As long as there is no big trouble in India and China in coming 10 to 15 years, these 2 countries will advance enormly in military techs.

Balance?
China has no single intention to attack India (for what to attack?), I believe India enjoys a good relation with China too.

Same applies to Russia.