Given the continuously increasing threats and challenges to national security, particularly the possibility of a two-front war, the funds earmarked by the Finance Minister for defence expenditure for Financial Year (FY) 2018-19 are grossly inadequate.
The defence Budget proposed in the Budget speech on 1 February 2018 for the next financial year will neither enable the armed forces to achieve the required levels of defence preparedness, nor permit them to undertake the military modernisation that is necessary to acquire the desired combat capabilities.