India Has Began A Military Buildup

India like many other countries in the region has begun to build up their Armed Forces

. The transparent reason is because they feel threatened by the Chinese military buildup. This is true for most other countries in the region, who have reason to fear because of increased Chinese aggression.

India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and is preparing for its first aircraft carrier.

India and China have had tensions since a 1962 border war, and New Delhi has watched as Beijing has increased its influence in the Indian Ocean. The Chinese are reaching out to take as many of the natural resources in the area as they can. They have not hesitated to claim lands that arent theirs in many different areas in order to lay claim to the natural resources located there. China has financed the development of ports in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Myanmar, and its recent effort to get access in the Seychelles has prodded New Delhi to renew its own outreach to the Indian Ocean island state off western India.

With its recent purchases, running into tens of billions of dollars, India is finally working to counter what it sees as aggressive incursions into a region India has long dominated.

"The Indian military is strengthening its forces in preparation to fight a limited conflict along the disputed border, and is working to balance Chinese power projection in the Indian Ocean," James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, told a Senate committee last week. This is interesting because this is the exact same thing that the Philippines and Vietnam among others are doing.

China has begun to build up their military in many different ways. The world has noted that although they claim to be building up their military for defensive purposes all of the weapons that they have been developing are offensive weapons. The discrepancy between what they are saying and what they are doing is not lost on the rest of the world.

India has created new infantry mountain divisions and plans to raise a strike corps aimed at countering aggression by China. Their border still has not been set despite 15 rounds of talks, and patrols frequently face off on the ground.

Analysts say that although the probability of a conflict between the two Asian giants is remote, a short, sharp conflict in the disputed Himalayan heights can't be ruled out.

"Over the last couple of years, the Chinese have been acting more and more aggressively in the political, diplomatic and military arena," said retired Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal, director of the Indian army-funded Centre for Land Warfare Studies in New Delhi.

The Indian government has realized that it desperately needs to build up its forces because its military is pretty much antiquated right now. They will have to use the best technology available which is going to cost them a bunch of money. It will strain their economy but it seems that is just a problem that they will just have to face and overcome. Military Ring Express

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