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Afghanistan/South Asia
Indian army faces 20 per cent shortage
2004-11-17
The Indian Army, the world's fourth largest, is 20 percent short of its total manpower requirements, its chief, Gen. N.C. Vij, said yesterday.
Particularly for MiG pilots.
The shortage was particularly acute in the case of short service commissioned (SSC) officers, he said. "We need to bring in more SSC officers," Vij told reporters on the sidelines of an army function on the outskirts of Bangalore. Vij said efforts were under way to improve the service conditions of both regular commissioned and SSC officers to make a career in the army more attractive for the youth. The Indian Army is 1.2 million strong.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  The lure of high paying (for India) call center and other foreign company jobs is probably cutting into the college educated men who might have considered a military career in India.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2004-11-17 9:30:06 PM  

#5  Ignore my above posting - it showed up in the wrong place !
Posted by: God Save The World   2004-11-17 8:17:15 PM  

#4  Reading stuff like this just makes me happy that i live in a society where i get to make my own choices regarding my life.
I don't feel sorry for that girl at all, nor the millions of other Muslims around the world.

Sympathy towards Muslims & Islam is something that i am not compatible with & never will be.

Its not our fault they live in such a shit infested hell hole, ruled by retarded Sharia Laws that revolve around a pathetic religion known as Islam.

We've tried to help the Muslims countless numbers of times in the past and they just keep spitting in our faces.

Let their deaths be their freedom.
Posted by: God Save The World   2004-11-17 8:15:53 PM  

#3  Between India and China, there is expected to be 25 million or so "extra" males, with no hope of employment, or, because of slanted demographics, a chance of ever getting married. So unless some disease like the Spanish Flu, which primarilly killed young men, comes along, there is gonna be a heap of trouble. Maybe if they fought a nice, extended, low tech trench warfare war?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2004-11-17 10:01:33 AM  

#2  Yeah, we need more of those short skirt commissioned officers, too.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2004-11-17 8:29:02 AM  

#1  1.065 billion people. That's a small army.
China has about the same population (1.3 billion), but 6 million strong army.
Posted by: Conanista   2004-11-17 1:35:42 AM  

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