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The Indian Army's plans for downsizing despite a record shortage in authorised manpower strength is reflective of a deeper military-economic crisis. The enforced vacancies of over one lakh will only increase with more such cuts in a unilateral downsizing exercise. It is also being done without taking into account the current and projected deployment state of the Army. The exercise is being marketed as 'rightsizing' in a clever play of words, but it doesn't take away from the fact that its thrust is on severe budgetary constraints for the foreseeable future. Introduction of the Agnipath recruitment scheme was the first…
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