 "Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat (right) with Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa of the Indian Air Force")
We will fight with whatever we have,” is a statement famously attributed to then chief of our army, General V P Malik, at the time of the Kargil War. Nearly two decades later, including three years under the present government, it is not certain if the picture has changed much. According to the most recent reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), the current army chief, General Rawat, may well have to make the same lament, should military conflict be forced upon India anytime soon. Why the situation should have not improved in all these years is one question;
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