link:Is India planning to shrink its army? - BBC News

link:Why China Is Trimming Its Army – The Diplomat

More than 10 years ago, I read from ML sites (it's PLA view)that future warfare will be dominated by A.I., drones, robots..

While the hindus have huge un(/der)employtment problem; on top of that cutting hindu grunt manpower ⇒ cutting hindu officer corp promotion prospect

link: Why Indian Army plans a reduction of 1,00,000 men? : The Tribune India

"There's a strong possibility of you getting a forward on social media these days, criticising Indian Army's proposed move of reduction in manpower..."

'Cutting' actually means recategorising some of the combatants to 'supporting' or logistic manpower:

"To achieve that objective within limited budgets, the following steps are essential: Maintaining a healthy Teeth-to-Tail - or combat vs non-combat ratio The 'teeth-to-tail ratio',.."