Indian army and the conundrum of civilian supremacy

There cannot be any second about the need of discretionary powers in the hands of military to handle unforeseen developments, particularly in India which boasts enormous recipes for conflicts and unrests.

But the problem is keeping the military entirely out of the ambit of any regulatory or supervising authority.  When it was enacted in 1958, it was meant to assist the military in dealing with armed rebellions in many regions of the country. But later the law assumed ominous proportions and misused by armed forces to create utter Human rights violations and chaos. For example, in pathribal case, the supremacy of the law came to be known by wide public after the Supreme Court ordered the army to court-martial them. But, unsurprisingly, army declared insufficient evidence and released them.

Indian stealth aircrafts

There is a general perception among westerners that India is a poverty stricken country and all the defence equipments they have are junks discarded by soviet union and other countries. Nothing can be far from truth.

As and when the country became independent the assets of RAF(royal air force) got transfered to Indian armoury. For example, the aircraft 'gnat' developed by fortland company of British was used effectively used by Indian air force to neutralise Pakistani defence machinery during the wars of 1947-1948.

But there is altogether another matter that even the royal air force envisaged gnat to be a flanker rather than a offensive fighter. But Indian air force adopted the aircraft to the requirement of fighter jet and did a good job. But the negative side is less importance given to indigenous aircraft designs such as HF - 24 marut.

Recent developments in the Indian defence weaponry such as acquisition of dassault Rafael from France and T-50 joint development with Russia has made westerners to take notice about Indian air force, which is going far ahead of its economic scarcities and other constraints.