Matt McClure of Al Jazeera reports on the emerging crisis in the armed forces of an emerging global power, which is slated to spend $30 billion over the next five years on new armaments, but finds that a Major makes half the money that he would as a real-estate consultant.
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It’s absurd to think that in a country of a billion people with millions unemployed, we find it difficult to recruit for a million strong army. The reason is that we have a very narrow view of what we need in our officers and expect them to fit into to a middle class view of the armed forces. I’m sure if we start looking to the lower classes, we will find no shortage of people. It happened with our cricket team, it’ll happen here too.
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What a shame. Spend $30 billion on arms meant to kill while a good part of the country goes to bed hungry…
Where are our priorities?