INDIA’S DEFENCE / DIPLOMACY STRATEGY ON RIGHT TRACK
Irksome relationship that India now has with Pakistan and China, the two neighbouring countries, have made many Indians including a few former diplomats and war veterans wonder whether India has to fight two front war in the immediate future. The Chief of Army Staff has also given credence to such view, by asserting that India has the capability to fight on two fronts. Some people even think that India may have to fight on three fronts ,the additional front being internal unrest caused by a few extremists who will get the support of arms or money or both from abroad.
Such situation of having to fight on more than one front, if it were to happen, would certainly stretch the Indian military capability and economy to a maximum extent. In such case, India will have to divert i...