The ruling and opposition parties in our country have always spared more for obtaining domestic purchase and less for sealing a definitive external political leverage with a bellicose neighbour. The rare exception was perhaps the 1971 war. After the Uri episode, the Government must polish our military and sharpen the bayonet.
Military engagements are better not predicted, but bleeding from repetitive cuts cannot be allowed to remain an endless anachronism. India after all, has among the largest armies in the world.