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The Indian Army secured the strategic Sia La and Bilafond La mountain passes, and by 1985 more than 2,600 km 2 (1,000 sq mi) of territory claimed by Pakistan was under Indian control. [66] The Indian Army continues to control all of the Siachen Glacier and its tributary glaciers.
The British Army's recruitment drive in 2017 targeted working-class families with an average annual income of £10,000. [26] Recruitment for officers typically draws on upwardly-mobile young adults from age 18, and recruiters for these roles focus their resources on high-achieving schools and universities.
Agnipath Scheme [1] (also spelled Agneepath Scheme) (Hindi: Agnīpath Yojanā, transl. Agnipath [Fireway] Scheme) is a tour of duty style scheme approved by the Government of India on 14 June 2022 and implemented in the country a few months later in September 2022, for recruitment of soldiers below the rank of commissioned officers into the three services of the armed forces. [2]
By the end of 1947, there were a total of 13 Indian major-generals and 30 Indian brigadiers, with all three army commands being led by Indian officers by October 1948, at which time only 260 British officers remained in the new Indian Army as advisers or in posts requiring certain technical abilities. [48]
The 2016–2018 India–Pakistan border skirmishes were a series of armed clashes between India and Pakistan, mostly consisting of heavy exchanges of gunfire between Indian and Pakistani forces across the de facto border, known as the Line of Control (LoC), between the two states in the disputed region of Kashmir.
2 May 2017 Pakistan Border Action Team (BAT) ambushed an Indian patrol along the LoC India claimed that a Border Action Team (BAT) of the Pakistan Army ambushed a patrol of about 9-10 soldiers from the 22 Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army and 200 battalion of the Border Security Force. The ambush took place about 200–250 metres deep inside ...
The Indian Military Academy (IMA) is one of the oldest military academies in India, and trains officers for the Indian Army. Located in Dehradun , Uttarakhand , it was established in 1932 following a recommendation by a military committee set up under the chairmanship of General (later Field Marshal ) Sir Philip Chetwode .
A senior Indian Home Ministry official subsequently claimed that in the wake of the raid, at least 12 training camps belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammad had been swiftly moved from their locations at Pir Chanasi, Aksha Maskar and Tabuk near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.