“Principal challenge today is the growing capability enhancements in an era of finite budgets”
While there are newer threats on the horizon, the hard reality is that legacy challenges have not quite gone away, and they have only grown in scale and intensity, Army Chief Gen Manoj Naravane said on Thursday, as India and China began disengagement to end the nine-month long standoff in Eastern Ladakh.
“Ongoing developments along our Northern borders should cause us to ponder over yet another reality, the nature of our unsettled borders and consequent challenges with regard to the preservation of our territorial integrity and sovereignty… While the Indian Army will continue to prepare and adapt to the future, the more proximate, real and present dangers on our active borders cannot be ignored,” Gen. Naravane said at a webinar organised by Centre for Land Warfare Studies.
Gen. Naravane said the principal challenge before them today was the “growing capability enhancements…