Arzan Tarapore is a nonresident fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research. In September 2020 he will join the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University as a research scholar on South Asia.
In this video, Arzan Tarapore explains the role of the Indian Army within the Indian Military Strategy. The Indian army has the largest and best resources in the Indian Armed forces with a clear majority in both military budget allocation as well as military personnel but must rethink its use of force in order to remain relevant.
The Indian Army’s prevailing doctrine leaves the military with two main choices: do nothing or risk wars it cannot win. The Indian Army needs to rethink its use of force to meet today’s new challenges.
Carnegie India hosted the fifth discussion of the Security Studies Seminar on “Ground Forces in Indian Military Strategy.”
As Indian strategic analysts increasingly accept the need to counterbalance China’s growing military power and assertiveness, there is little consensus on how this can be realistically achieved.
