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The Indian Armed Forces are considered to be one of the largest active service forces in the world, with almost 1.42 million Active Standing Army.An additional 2.20 million reserve forces can be activated in a few weeks depending on the situation under the order of the President of India who is the Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces of India.
The economics of defense or defense economics is a subfield of economics, an application of the economic theory to the issues of military defense. [1] It is a relatively new field. An early specialized work in the field is the RAND Corporation report The Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age by Charles J. Hitch and Roland McKean ( [2] 1960 ...
Should it be called into active duty again, it would constitute a seventh branch of the Armed Forces. [33] The United States Space Force was established as an independent service on 20 December 2019. It is the sixth branch of the U.S. military and the first new branch in 72 years. [34]
The Ready Reserve comprises military members of the Reserve and National Guard, organized in units or as individuals, liable for recall to active duty to augment the active components in time of war or national emergency. The Ready Reserve consists of three reserve component subcategories:
The amount of pay varies according to the member's rank, time in the military, location duty assignment, and by some special skills the member may have. Pay will be largely based on rank, which goes from E-1 to E-9 for enlisted members, O-1 to O-10 for commissioned officers and W-1 to W-5 for warrant officers.
Chapter 33A — Appointment, promotion, and involuntary separation and retirement for members on the warrant officer active-duty list; Chapter 34 — Appointments as reserve officers; Chapter 35 — Temporary appointments in officer grades; Chapter 36 — Promotion, separation, and involuntary retirement of officers on the active-duty list
To qualify for SCRA benefits, military members must be on active duty, a reservist on federal active duty or a member of the National Guard on federal orders that extend longer than 30 days.
As of November 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense is the second largest employer in the world after India (and potentially China, if including the Central Military Commission), [3] with over 1.4 million active-duty service personnel, including soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen, and guardians.