Defence modernisation hurdles: If Budget is to blame, so is Army leadership

While the govt needs to be condemned for its lackadaisical treatment of defence, army leadership cannot escape the blame either

Much has been made of the army Vice Chief of Staff’s statement to the Parliamentary standing committee on defence on the acute shortages the army has been facing. The army has a point. Defence has been the step-child of the NDA government. However the army stands condemned by his own statement which exposed the army as an obsolete fossil, out of sync with operational, tactical or strategic reality, trends in modern warfare & most importantly clueless about budgets.

That the NDA simply does not take defence seriously is a given. The fact that defence has had 4 ministers