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11 Jan, 8 tweets, 4 min read
What is the Indian Army Honour Code ? What is the Chetwode Code ?

I have never tweeted about these but today my conscience does not allow me to stay silent. We are told about the Honour Code by senior officers, including a Gen officer. We are told we must stand shoulder

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to shoulder with brother veterans at ALL COSTS

An airforce veteran pilot with @goairlinesindia can call for dismemberment of India, he can condone death of CAPF staff, he can be openly tweet hate about Hindus but we must support him

Sorry sirs, this is NOT the Honour Code

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Honour code / Chetwode Code is - Country First Always and every time. Its not a mafia like Omerta code of silence in face of anything including dismemberment of the nation

How can we forget what Maj Gen Shabegh Singh did ? He was a decorated with PVSM and AVSM but yet he

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took up arms against the nation and was hunted down by the Indian Army as he deserved. A brilliant officer, a master tactician but a traitor. He got his dues

Mickey Mallick is on record with similar views. As Pilot of a passenger airline he was seriously endangering safety

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due to his hateful and radical views. Do we want another MH 370 disaster on our hands ? Or a 9/11 ? Passenger safety all over the world dictates that such pilots must not be allowed to fly

What does Honour Code mandate for us in such cases ? To don Omerta ? Like Mafia ?

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A public spirited veteran reports his tweets as is his citizen duty and all hell breaks loose. Cries of snitching and Honour Code rent the air

Sorry to say sirs, you have been reading the Chetwode Credo Upside Down

Its Nation First, Me Last not the other way round

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@PRESPLdesk you should be proud of @RDXThinksThat. He has acted as a public spirited citizen according to laws of land and averted a major disaster

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6 Jan
Interesting re-orientation of Indian Army strike formations. Lets analyse this and assess if full move is necessary :

1. Strike 1 will shed its strike arm 33 Armoured Div to AHQ reserve and reorient itself to Northern Theatre as its Strike arm

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Is its role to provide reserves for an offensive in Ladakh/GB or is it to reinforce our defensive posture. What will 17 Mountain Strike Corps role be ?

2. To answer these questions lets first look at threat and deployment in Ladakh. 3 Div which is responsible for

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Eastern Ladakh has been reinforced by another Div. These formations are supported by adequate armour and mech forces plus a big IAF build up. My assessment is that this is adequate for our defensive posture given the threat of Chinese 4th and 6th Divisions in E Ladakh

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12 Nov 20
5 points we must be very careful about in #ChinaIndiaFaceoff

1. Chinese have built roads and can bring troops, A vehicles (fighting vehicles), arty much quicker to a place than we can. Terrain on their side is also easier. Pulling out both sides A vehicles is NOT the same

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2. Can we be certain we will know in time if Chinese come back ? Our UAV holdings and surveillance capabilities are less than China

3. Kailash Range positions give us great advantage in that sector. Chinese therefore want us to vacate but refuse to discuss Depsang

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4. Depsang intrusions are dnageorus. Estimates range from 80-200 sq km. Why will Chinese move back if we gift them what they want in Pangong, Spangur sector

5. Chinese are finding winter hard, rotating troops in 2 weeks whereas even in Siachen our tps stay for 3 months

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12 Nov 20
If true, it is a serious mistake and let down. Capitulation from a strong position and completely unnecessary. Chinese are still entrneched in their intrusions at Depsnag, Y junction. That seems to have been conveniently forgotten

Our positions on Kailash heights

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are on our side of LAC and critcial to defence of Chusul. Why are we bargaining them away ? What do we get in return ?

Nothing. We cannot patrol from F4-F8 now and we won't be allowed to in future. We will be pushed back to Chinese claim lines at F2-F3 Chinese have

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built a road to F4 plus habitat and defences. They can pull back to F8 but come back very quickly to man them and we will not be able to do anything. Will Chinese demolish all their construction between F4 and F8. If not we gain absolutely nothing but give away all leverage

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20 Oct 20
In this whole episode, the least discussed is our staying out of RCEP, BRI

Lets examine and see where we stand on a strategic, operational and tactical perspective now and what should be our next steps. What have we done well and where we need to improve a lot. Here goes

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RCEP and BRI are two major Chinese initiatives to build a Chinese Economic and Military Power hegemony. The first is economic, trade control and the second is physical control of roads, commerce. This is basically East India Company 2.0 for 21st Century

India staying out

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has angered China because it poses a serious threat (if we ever get our act right) to their hegemony plans. GOI has shown great wisdom in not joining 👏

Their 'invasion' is to teach us a lesson and ensure world knows that messing with Company Sarkar has consequences

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18 Oct 20
Shawney, you have NO clue about military dynamics. You spent YO days as partying in peace postings n later as ADC to Govnr. You have no idea of war fighting, ratios, tactics, op art. We are in far superior position to Pak + have an edge over China. I explain...

@KanwalSibal

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Pak has 19 Armd, Mech, Inf Divs plus FCNA plus 3 Arty Divs. Of these they need to keep atleast 4 Divs oriented towards Iran and another 2-3 for internal pacification including in Balochistan. The majority of their forces are in Pakjab -13 Divs. Pak is split East-West by

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Indus. But Pakjab is split North West by Jhelum, Ravi, Chenab, Sutlej. Why is this important ?

Because we can trap majority of Pak Forces in Pakjab by smashing bridges on Pakjab rivers + hinder East West movement by smashing bridges on Indus

One look at a map shows this

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12 Sep 20
My views :

1. Dominating Spangur is critical to deny Chinese break out with mech formations via Spangur Gap. We cannot vacate our newly occupied positions unless Chinese retreat all the way back to Xinjiang and Tibet

2. Our positions on North Bank ridges also necessary

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till Chinese completely vacate F4-F8 .Also imp to deny link up with Gogra

3. I don't see Chinese going back and it seems we are trying very hard to avoid any kinetic action and certainly war

4. Therefore we will have to maintain our positions + keep reinforcements in place

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till such time Chinese fully withdraw

5. You are right. Significant defence budget increase for all 3 services is critical. If not now, war will happen in 5-10 years. That is Chinese plan and declared 'war zone' concept - attack adversaries one by one. We are 100% next

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