███ Fast 5 Facts ███ ███ INDIAN ARMY ███ 1. Indian Army ranks third in the world after US and China. Indian Army currently operates at a strength of 1,129,900 active personnel and 960,000 reserve personnel. Of those in reserve 160,000 are in the Indian Territorial Army; however, only 40,000 of those regularly report for duty. This makes the Indian Army the world’s largest standing volunteer army. The world’s highest standing army is with china and though US has a smaller army than the Chinese in terms of manpower, their high-end technical weaponry makes them the strongest. 2. By the end of World War II Royal Indian Army (under British rule) became the largest volunteering army in the history with over 25,00,000 men serving in infantry, airforce and naval regiments over Africa, Asia and Europe. The losses incurred by Indian Army from WW2 were loss of 36,000 Indian servicemen, 34,354 wounded and 67,340 became prisoners of war. 3. In the last conventional war that Indian Army fought back in 1971, it engaged its opponent (Pakistan) on two fronts (West and East). The Indian army was so brutally effective that we managed to liberate an entire country (Bangladesh) in just 13 days flat and installed a civilian and democratic system of governance (which works to this date) in the least possible time. Compare this with the performance of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (12 years and counting). More than 90,000 (highest figure in the history of military warfare after WWII) Pakistani soldiers surrendered before the Indian army at the end of one of the shortest full scale war ever. All this happened in spite of the threat of Chinese and American invasion. 4. Indian Army’s Special Forces units called Para Commandos are considered among the best in the world. They have successfully completed numerous clandestine and covert operations within and outside India. They are extremely secretive (so secretive that it’s very difficult to find a lot of info about them) and highly feared by all kinds of oppositions it has seen.To become a Royal marine ( United Kingdom army ) , one can simply volunteer for the service and undergo training. But in case of Indian army, one has to go regular training, which lasts at least up to 49 weeks and then undergo a commando course training before the age of 30. After this they have an option to become proper commandos (paratroopers) or NSG, which then has a extreme training regime of year. 5. Unlike as shown in popular Bollywood movie "BORDER" in which many Indian Army jawans loose their lives, During the actual Battle of Longewala fought in December 1971 between India and Pakistan, in which just 120 Indian Soldiers with 1 jeep mounted M40 recoilless rifle held the fort against 2000 Pakistani soldiers backed by 45 tanks and 1 mobile infantry brigade. Indian soldiers held their grounds the whole night giving the Pakistanis the impression that there were around 500 Indians soldiers. When the fire was brought from the sky by Indian Airforce in the morning, Pakistani soldiers fled their positions and lost 200 soldiers and 34 of Pakistani tanks destroyed . Compared to this INDIAN ARMY lost just 2 soldiers out of 120 soldiers defending the post.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:46:22 +0000
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