7/14/2023 0 Comments Combat armsThe Indian frontiers remain in the hands of infantrymen, from the staggering high altitudes of the Siachen Glacier, the impregnable jungles of the north-east to the scorching heat of the Thar Desert. If Army is the last bastion of National security, Infantry remains its penultimate strength.Īll wars since 1947 have been witness to the heroic deeds of Infantry troops who have performed their tasks successfully in adverse climatic conditions and terrain to protect the Nation's integrity and sovereignty. It is with the Infantry at the core that the rest of the Army is configured, both during war and peace. Like all armies the world over, Infantry is the prime arm of the Indian Army. It is the infantryman who pushes the enemy out of his bunker and forces him to accept defeat or, resolutely holds ground against the assaults of the enemy till the "last man last round". History is testimony to the fact that the ultimate victory in any war is decided by the Infantry. True to these words, Infantry has been the foremost fighting arm from the days of yore. The least spectacular of all arms, but without which you can do nothing, nothing at all". At the core lies the enduring principles of the Fire Power and Shock Action, the application of which will always have a most devastating effect on the enemy. The Indian Armoured Corp's operational success continues to be founded on moral strength and martial spirit, and it takes tremendous pride in the achievements of the past, seizes the demands and opportunities of the present, and focuses always on the challenges of the future. The Armoured Corps ethos reflects professional competence and makes demands on individual soldiers far beyond those necessary in other vocations. The mechanised battlefield is exceptionally demanding and requires enormous reserves of physical, mental and moral stamina to get through the 'noise and dust'. Armoured Corps, successor to the erstwhile cavalry, retains the elan of the horse borne warrior of old, along with that infuriatingly languid air of confidence, of never being seen as perturbed in public.
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