CHACHA KAHINI
CHACHA KAHINI A STRONG ARMED FORCES WASTED. A medallion too far. SARASIJ MAJUMDER The funniest thing is--- Chacha was not to do much! Only Prioritize. Our bad luck that we didn’t get BOSE as P.M., who understood the importance of a strong ARMED FORCE, required for a budding nation, surrounded by small countries, and to face CHINA, and Pakistan. GEO-POLITICALLY, and from MILITERY INTELLIGENCE point of view— Nehru was just pretty ordinary, and NAIVE( and that is what Stalin also thought of him) but politically he was an air bag with very high ambition. When the British left the country, India inherited the most powerful army in the continent. A battle hardened force that had tested its blade successfully against the best in the world,. Strength of the Indian Army in August 1947 was 4,00,000 men along with 6 GORKHA REGIMENTS. But the political leadership was keen to reduce the strength to save defence expenditure and hence it was decided to bring down the strength of the Army t