Editor's Foreword

TRG 30: 8 L-39ZA Albatros*; 10 PT-6 (CJ-6); 12 T-37B
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HELICOPTERS
SPT 17 Mi-17/MI-171/MI-17MI-IV Hip
UTL 13: 2 Bell 206 Longranger; 11 Bell 212
MSL • AAM AA-2 Atoll
Paramilitary 63,900
Ansars 20,000+
Security Guards
Armed Police 5,000
Rapid action force (forming)
Border Guard Bangladesh 38,000
Border Guard
Paramilitary 41 bn
Coast Guard 900
PATROL AND COASTAL COMBATANTS 10
PFC 2 Shaheed Daulat
PCI 1 Bishkali
PCR 5 Pabna
PB 2 Meghna
DEPLOymENTS
AFGHANISTAN
UN • UNAMA 1 obs
BURUNDI
UN • BINUB 1 obs
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/CHAD
UN • MINURCAT 5; 2 obs
CôTE D’IVOIRE
UN • UNOCI 2,082; 15 obs; 2 inf bn; 1 engr coy; 1 sig coy;
1 fd hospital
DEmOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
UN • MONUC 1,520; 26 obs; 1 mech inf bn; 2 avn unit
LIBERIA
UN • UNMIL 2,340; 11 obs; 2 inf bn; 2 engr coy; 1 sigs pl;
2 log coy; 1 MP unit
SUDAN
UN • UNAMID 591; 7 obs; 2 log coy
UN • UNMIS 1,451; 19 obs; 1 inf bn; 1 engr coy; 1 demining
coy; 1 tpt coy; 1 rvn coy; 1 MP coy; 1 fd hospital
TImOR-LESTE
UN • UNMIT 4 obs
WESTERN SAHARA
UN • MINURSO 8 obs
India IND
South and Central Asia
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indian rupee rs 2008 2009 2010
GDP Rs 53.2tr 60.33tr
US$ 1,223bn 1,300bn
per capita US$ 1,073 1,124
Growth % 7.3 5.4
inflation % 8.3 8.7
Def exp Rs 1,372bn
US$ 31.54bn
Def bdgt Rs 1,235bn 1,665bn
US$ 28.39bn 35.88bn
US$1=rs 43.5 46.4
Population 1,156,897,766
religious groups: hindu 80%; Muslim 14%; Christian 2%; Sikh
2%
Age 0–14 15–19 20–24 25–29 30–64 65 plus
Male 16% 5% 5% 5% 18% 2%
Female 15% 5% 4% 4% 18% 2%
Capabilities
ACTIVE 1,325,000 (Army 1,129,900, navy 58,350
Air 127,200, Coast Guard 9,550) Paramilitary
1,300,586
RESERVE 1,155,000 (Army 960,000 navy 55,000 Air
140,000) Paramilitary 987,821
Army first line reserves (300,000) within 5 years of full
time service, further 500,000 have commitment to the age
of 50.
ORGANISATIONS By SERVICE
Strategic Forces Command
India’s Nuclear Command Authority (NCA) controls
the nation’s nuclear weapons. The NCA comprises a
Political Council and an Executive Council. The Political
Council, chaired by the Prime Minister, is the only body
that can authorise nuclear weapons use; the Executive
Council, chaired by the National Security Advisor to the
Prime Minister, provides inputs for decision making by
the NCA and executes directives given by the Political
Council. Strategic Forces Command (SFC) is a tri-service
command established in 2003. The Commander-in-Chief
of SFC, a senior three-star military officer, manages
and administers all Strategic Forces through separate
Army and Air Force chains of command, with the army
responsible for all nuclear-capable land-based ballistic
missiles and the air force responsible for all nuclearcapable
fixed-wing aircraft (the navy is not yet nuclearcapable).
The navy is also establishing its own chain of
comd, following the launch of INS Arihant in July 2009.
The C-in-C SFC reports directly to the Chairman, Chiefs
of Staff Committee.
South and
Central Asia