India both an economic and military powerhouse!!!!

• In keeping with its aspirations to be viewed as an emerging superpower, India will showcase its hard military power to an international audience with a huge Army-IAF combat exercise in March and the exercise named "Brazen Chariots "so after "soft power", it's time to flex the military muscle now.
• The list of foreign observers is still being finalised but we expect representatives from around 100 countries. They will be taken to the Pokhran field firing ranges for the exercise and firepower demonstration.
• The exercise will be the largest in recent times, with the entire gamut of sophisticated weapon systems and platforms, reconnaissance and command and control systems coming into play in a bid to dazzle the foreign observers.
• The message for the foreign observers to take back home will be that India is both an economic and military powerhouse.
• India, after all, has spent a whopping $12 billion in the last four years to import military hardware and software. it plans to spend another $30 billion for the purpose during 2007-2012.