Took part in a panel discussion on DD
Gave my point of view as to about the current status of the war as it enters the second month.
As per reports the government is set to finalise the ‘Agnipath’ nee ‘Tour of Duty’ recruitment scheme, under which youth can enlist in the Army for three /five years and be known as ‘Agnivirs’. It is being envisaged that 25% of them would serve for three years and 25% for five years, the remaining 50% would serve for the full term till they reach the retirement age. This major reform is expected to significantly reduce the age profile of the Armed forces. This reform will also result in significant reduction of pensions. It will curb the ballooning salary and pension bills that are adversely impacting military modernization. Under this arrangement, after completing 3 or 5 years of service, the Army will help the soldier/officer to be recruited in other services. The soldiers would be given a pay-out along with priority in recruitment to certain government jobs, including the central armed police forces. An effort is also on to nudge corporate India into hiring such ...
Gen Shankar & Amb.Malhotra are a whiff of fresh air against all the one-sided propaganda from the West & English media. The professor is an outright propagandist and the other ambassador seems to be straight from the weak-kneed mould of the vasudheva kuttam-bunkum moralist that our foreign service seems to have been infested with. Russia won't tolerate an existentialist threat and repression of russian speakers on its border, which is difficult for these types to understand as we are willing to even allow genocides of our own within our own borders.
ReplyDeleteUkraine is most surely a proxy for the US's destabilizing games and Biden's rhetoric is simply to counteract his miserable ratings and potential loss of control of the house & senate in November.