First things first:
(1) Soldiering is not a job, both ArmedForces(AFs) as well as Central Paramilitary Forces(CPMFs) ie Central Armed Police Forces ie Gendarmerie,
(2)- AFs (except the quasi-dual-command CoastGuard) are a Brit legacy while all of the CPMFs (except the dual-command AssamRifles,circa1890s, & the CRPF,1939) were formed much late after partition, well post 1962(humiliating debacle) & 1965 wars. Brits(not always wrong) rightly knew that soldiers should not be just kept content but deserve special privileges for an onerous task which entails incomparable sacrifices. Our seculib democratic nehruvian republic wanted the AFs to be disbanded completely while wanted to keep CPMFs only to supplement the state polices: thus all the pay/perks of the AFs were gradually withdrawn/diminished whilst the CPMFs were deliberately not given anything "special" comparable to the AFs from the very outset.
Whatever might be said/debated the undeniable fact remains that soldiering (AFs/CPMFs) must be heavily compensated exceeding other services as the very existence of any state/civilisation is dependent finally & critically upon its military(& paramilitary/gendarmerie). Be it the Nanda empire & its successor Mauryas or the much later Guptas or the great Mongols or even the non-imperialist mercantile Novgorod Republic of the Hansa League or the Tsars or colonial Brits or USA or the Soviets or Communist China or modern Turkey or Ottoman Turkey or the Imperial Japan or Manchu China or even our contemporary states of Israel or France or Mexico or Chile... Those who ignore this do this at their own peril and in fact do not deserve to exist as a state/civilisation.
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