1/n #NationalSecurity #ArmedForcesAndGeopolitics Today every establishment of Armed Forces should be War Gaming 'Snake Island' and applying the situation created by Russia to our isolated posts. Are we doing it? Are Cadets in Training Academies being taught how to analyse it?
2/n #NationalSecurity #ArmedForcesAndGeopolitics Episode 1 - Armed Forces and Geopolitics - THE BIG VOID Col Sanjay Pande and Prof. Sonali Chitalkar

THE BIG VOID is all about the gap in national security because of 'turfs'.
3/n #NationalSecurity #ArmedForcesAndGeopolitics
Turfs? Military that has no geopolitical training as a culture from roots (cadet training)? or a Foreign Service that has no military knowledge? or the Administrative Service that presides over both and nose drags the Executive?
4/n #NationalSecurity #ArmedForcesAndGeopolitics

or the National Security Advisors who have experience in a completely different field? Where is national security?
To begin from home, Geopolitics takes decades to learn, understand and thereafter apply.
5/n #NationalSecurity #ArmedForcesAndGeopolitics

Our Armed Forces have no formal training for almost first 20 years of service, which in other words means that the complete officer cadre has a big void till they reach a select lot. Overnight they become
6/n #NationalSecurity #ArmedForcesAndGeopolitics


experts. Something that requires life time of historical study studied with real time events, is now put as a load on officers who have huge responsibilities. A new subject altogether.
7/n #NationalSecurity #ArmedForcesAndGeopolitics

Indian Armed Forces have no role to operate within country and they have no knowledge of geopolitics. What exactly are we doing?

Episode 1 asks simple questions for which there will be no answers.
8/n Read my thread and see videos to understand geopolitics. 👇🏻👇🏻The red rounded portion is SHEER NONSENSE. Nothing will change. Russia has its geopolitics right. Ukraine got it wrong. World was bystander. It always will be OR few will always join your opponent.
9/n India has taken an absolutely correct stand. Don’t get involved. We are not China to ‘walk the talk’. We currently are fully equipped to ‘talk’. Let us work hard to ‘walk’.

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Feb 25
1/n #ChangeOrPerish My advise to @HQ_IDS_India If we do not change the mindset of training military minds, we will continue to be an assembly line that produces rusted minds. With Ukraine happening, entire military establishment @adgpi @IAF_MCC and @indiannavy should be ….
2/n #ChangeOrPerish @HQ_IDS_India should be discussing it real time. Promotion Exams should be dynamic in nature. Include 100% military and geopolitics events happening across globe. Keep military minds sharp. @adgpi you need to introspect few issues that I bring in this thread.
3/n #ChangeOrPerish @HQ_IDS_India Geopolitics and Military Mindset
Officers of age 30 yrs and less are studying the following in Military History (source of information Natraj Publishers) for their promotion to Majors Rank:
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Feb 24
1/n #NotMatureForCDS This thread is on “National Security for Dummies” (dummies- an object designed to resemble & serve as a substitute for the real or usual one.) Using Twitter Threads, YouTube Videos & Essays, I will make YOU understand National Security it in simple language.
2/n #NotMatureForCDS I have written extensively on why Military Minds are NOT made to think big since 1990. Unless I explain ‘why’ of it, you will take me as frustrated soul. Hence, I will put facts in front and YOU decide whether we are mature enough to let a person become a CDS
3/n #NotMatureForCDS What is required of a person as CDS? Vision. To back the vision, a correctly organised force AND officer cadre that is trained to understand the task set for it. For Vision, the CDS needs to be in absolute alignment with Executive and Bureaucracy and know
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Jan 24
1. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans THIS THREAD WILL SEE LOT OF RED FACES. Veterans have NO RIGHT to criticise anything happening in India for one simple reason, has that Veteran ever criticised or commented on ‘Colonial Practices’ of Army? WHY VETERANS DO NOT SPEAK UP?
2. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Will tell you WHY VETERANS DO NOT SPEAK UP, Why they see but select to keep quiet? What has boxed them into silence? What false pride is invoked to keep them quiet? How retired Generals exploit ‘religion’ to progress their careers?
3. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Will tell you how Veterans force the serving to be subservient to them for life? Will tell you what @adgpi with help of @drajaykumar_ias , @secyesw , @rajnathsingh and @PMOIndia must do to cut all ‘invisible’ connections to make a GREAT ARMY.
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Jan 23
1. #IndiaGateLawns OR #NationalWarMemorialCircle Is a MASSIVE circle which has India Gate, National War Memorial on two opposite plots and a Canopy in centre. The Canopy had King George’s statue till 1968. Image
2. #IndiaGateLawns OR #NationalWarMemorialCircle India Gate was constructed in remembrance of 90,000 Indian soldiers who died during FIRST WORLD WAR. Names of ONLY 13,600 are etched on walls. Image
3. #IndiaGateLawns OR #NationalWarMemorialCircle India Gate attracts highest tourist footfall in Delhi, massive lawns are open to public, baloon & ice cream sellers, rocket toys and complete festive atmosphere has always been the signature of IG visit. Circle has two parkings
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Jan 15
1. CDS. While Navy and Airforce continued with their progressive training since 1990, Army was completely consumed in Counter Insurgency. It shifted its assembly line of producing generals to CI. A Lieutenant in 1990 is a Maj Gen/Lt Gen today. We have product of CI all over.
2. CDS. We have the Army Commanders and Chief who were Captains in 1989-85, and the only lot commissioned prior to CI that started in 1990. They have spent their service from Major to Lt Gen/General in CI. The upward mobility was provided by CI or commanding a Strike Corps.
3. CDS. Focusing on CI. All one has to do is to list out every Lt Gen promoted from 2001 to date and simply see their Command. Command of unit, Brigade, Division and Corps. 99% earned their ranks due to Counter Insurgency. They invested in CI industry.
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Dec 12, 2021
1/n @nudelhilawfora Sir, There is a trend when a veteran passes away, his erstwhile service directorate or Regiment publishes an obituary in newspapers. It is always from ‘Director General Regiment of xxx’ or numerous such HQs. What is the need? They left forces many years back!
2/n It is now strictly followed. Pick up any news paper and you can see it on daily basis. Only Officers deaths get an obituary. Is it not a very deeply distressing exercise? Why doesn’t @adgpi stop this practice? Soldiers fade away, but these directorates play with emotions.
3/n No one questions them. Selective obituaries keep popping up in newspapers. These directorates have no clue where and in what state the Veterans and Widows live. They are absolutely clueless but must suddenly rise to pay random tributes to ‘deceased officers’.
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