How to become stronger

To keep peace, we need to build our army and increase our defence equipments. Although we do not want war, we have to arm ourselves, so that our interests are protected. If we do not have strong defence forces, we would be taken for granted. Strong neighbouring countries would not respect our borders and would take over our lands. May be stronger nations in our borders would dam our rivers and deprive us of our natural resources. We share aquifers with our neighbours and they may siphon our ground water and make our lands dry.It is for these reasons for which we need to protect ourselves and build our armed forces. We can spend more on our welfare schemes and education policy, but instead we spend on our defence facilities. We had planned expenditure of Rupees 193407 crores in the year 2012-13; and for 2013-14, we will spend 203672 crores. As the percentage of our national expenditure, expenditure is lower. How we spend our allocated resource is important. The actual expenditures always surpass the recommended limits. If the ministry of defence reprioritises the expenditures, we will fare better. We must rework our bureaucracies of army, navy and air force units. We need to reduce manpower and increase skilled engineers as military surveillance is modernised now. We must spend more on research so that we can manufacture our own defence equipments without buying from outside the country. Tactical Communication Systems can be made better with innovations. Having better technology is better than having more men; by this logic, we must make our defence sector stronger. We must protect our country and its resources by spending on defence. And to avoid war we must let our neighbours know that we are very very strong.