-A tale of apathy neglect or sheer incompetence
-#Afghanistan been betrayed by #USA or by incompetent leaders
-General Sami Sadat Cdr AFN in #NYTimes:We were trained based on hi tech special reconnaissance units, helos & airstrikes
-Contractors played important role in war against #Taliban
-Contractors started fleeing #Afghanistan after #Biden announced date of withdrawal
-Our air support dried up & ammunition ran out
-By end Jul most of 17k contractors left
-Any tech glitch & air support would be grounded
-Contracters took software & weapons systems
-Removed helicopter missile-defense system
-Access to software to track vehicles, weapons, & personnel disappeared
-Real-time intelligence on targets dried up
-Taliban used snipers & IEDs
-ADF lost aerial & laser-guided weapon capacity
-Mar contractor Salient Federal Services $24.9 mil for IT infra, completion Mar’22
-Mar contractor Textron $9.7 mil force-protection efforts completion Mar’22
-May contractor Leidos $34 mil to provide logistics support to #Afghan#AirForce & Special Mission
-Then what happened❓
-So who is incompetent
-Is General Sadat hiding his & ADF incompetence
-Or successive governments & corrupt officials were incompetent
-What about other European nations
-What about #Pakistan & #China sabotaging peace
-Or it was #USA alone❓
-Your comments on 2 pics 50 yrs apart
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-Just 3 days ago #China’s President #XiJinping asked #Chinese armed forces to focus on combat readiness
-Xi is Chairman of Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) Central Military Commission (CMC)
-In 2016 Xi made PLA, an army that is loyal to no one but himself
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-Xi restructured 4 general depts into 15 depts
-General Staff Department, General Political Department, most powerful
-2 former CMC V chairmen controlling these dept, Guo Boxiong & Xu Caihou were expelled from party for corruption
-Chairman controls PLA through General Office
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-4 members of CMC have reached official retirement age of 68
-They could step down on 16 Oct during 20th National Congress of #CCP
-Xi puts political loyalty above combat experience
-Vice-chairmen Gen Xu Qiliang & General Zhang Youxia are oldest, & be 72
-Pravin Sawhney wrote a book Last War
-I don't know how much he understands #ArtificialIntelligence but I agree AI is most profound #technology humanity ever developed
-Future wars will depend upon AI
-For me nothing is above nation so I attempt honest review where #India stands
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-#India’s overall ranking 17
-Small countries like #Singapore & #Ireland are ahead
-#Infrastructure & Govt Strategy are 2 areas where we lack
-Notice we are No 2 in talent
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-It all starts from #University and Institute
-Number of citations
-Number of PhDs
-#Indian universities do not figure in top unvivsities who are doing research
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-Deputy head of #Taiwan defence ministry's research & development unit Ou Yang Li-hsing, leading missile production, found dead in S Taiwan hotel
-Traitors are in every country
-Reminds me of various #Indian scientists killed under mysterious circumstances
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-8 Jun 2009:, 47-year-old senior scientific officer at the Kaiga Atomic Power Station in Karwar, Karnataka, L. Mahalingam went on a morning walk & never returned
-5 days later, his highly decomposed body was found Kali river.
-A DNA test confirmed his identity
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-24 Nov 2009: Tritium was mixed in drinking water at Kaiga Atomic Power Station
-More that 20 staff fell ill
-Over 90 staff received treatment
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-1st & foremost after initial 1-2 days #Russia failed to establish air superiority & air support to ground forces
-Battle for Antonov Apt 10km NW of #Kyiv was failure
-Russia took 2 days to capture
-18 IL-76 fm Russian Pskov Airport had to go back since airfield was damaged
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-Russia suffering large aircraft & helo losses(31 & 30) in 1 week
-Russia doesn't hv even localized air superiority
-Aircraft & helo losses unsustainable
-Attack aircraft & helo unable to provide close air support to mechanized forces
-Ukraine using UAVs inflicted huge damage
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-How #leftists destroyed #Indian#History
-Self-proclaimed historian DN Jha spread fake #propaganda about destruction of Nalanda University
-He based his narrative on Pag Sam Jon Zang
-Text written 500 yrs after destruction
-He ignored Tabakat-i-Nasiri by Maulana Minhaj-ud-din
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-Destruction of Nalanda is described in Tabakat-i-Nasiri by Maulana Minhaj-ud-din
-He reports ‘Muhammad-i-Bakhtiyar returned with great booty & came to Sultan Qutb-ud-din I-bak & received great honour and distinction
-But DN Jha had his own agenda
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-DN Jha ignores Tabakat-i-Nasiri & refers Pag Sam Jon Zang 18th C text translated by another Marxist Sarat Chandra Das
-As per Das’s translation 2 Tirthika Bhikshu got upset & burned Nalanda
-So 10000 people kept watching & 2 ppl destroyed the place
-Wow that's some power
-14th round of senior military commander level #India-#China talks will take place today
-#IndianArmy remember #China & #CCP are biggest liars, most untrustworthy & disgrace to humanity
-Rember how Chou en Lai kept lying to PM Nehru & #India
-Better to trust Hyena than China
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CIA Report:
-#Chinese diplomatic effort was a 5-year masterpiece of guile, executed & planned by Chou en Lai
-He played on Nehru's Asian, anti-imperialist attitude & his sincere desire for an amicable #India-#China relationship
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CIA Report
-Nehru had so carried away in his desire for peace with #China that he told a source:I don't mind giving away a little bit of #Ladakh
-But I don't want #Chinese to take me for a sucker
-Chou en Lai has lied to me so often that I do not feel like trusting him anymore