UPSC Civil Services 2015 Prelims General Studies Paper II

(a) is wrong as the passage says that if we can cut our defence expenses we can find peace or Building of weapons systems by us will instigated our neighbours to wage wars against us is a false propagation. (b) is correct as the passage supports weaponbuilding by India. It can also be inferred from the passage that India wants to establish peace with our neighbours. So 'weapon-building would lessen the possibility of armed conflict with our neighbours' is the most valid assumption. Although (c) is also an assumption but use of the words'state of the art'and'national security' does not make it the most valid assumption. (d) is an inference but not an assumption.