Thread by @Ak5985965

Lt Gen Panag @rwac48 claims :

''Below the nuclear threshold, for any form of conflict, we do not have the technological military capability to defeat Pakistan or avoid a military embarrassment by China''

This is Pakistani propaganda and 100% false as I explain in👇thread

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Either Panag has forgotten the basics of tac, operational art or he is severely compromised. Since Pravin Shawney says same it's probably the second

Here is a detailed thread on how India can defeat Pak. Notice use of terrain, tactics, dispositions

https://twitter.com/Ak5985965/status/1317743930859978752?s=20&t=xHEj9QvBLBUwrCsonwCurQ

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Wars are not fought, won on the @ThePrintIndia but on ground. One of the most basic element of Indian military thinking is sound appreciation of terrain. Our op environment is not the same as Russia vs Ukraine. It is entirely different

Russia also made some serious mistakes

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1. They did not get air dominance in the early stages because they held back use of air power. They did not strike radars, missiles, lgs dumps. They did not eliminate the Ukrainian Air Force as they should have

2. They launched SHBO strikes on multiple airfields with

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understrength teams. They did not reinforce them

3. Worst of all they launched multiple axis of attacks instead of just one main axis - Donetz - Kherson - Melitopol. These were 200 - 500 km thrusts. India will not make more than a 70 - 100 km thrust at most

4. They also

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glaring tactical errors in the movement of convoys bunching them together, infantry not dismounting to sanitise flanks of advance, bad command and control. And frankly so stomach for contact and fighting

Gen Panag should know that we are the opposite. Our army seeks contact

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closes in and destroys the enemy. We are a 100% volunteer professional battle hardened army constantly in operations. We will not make such rookie errors. We will not get drawn into urban warfare

Panag claims our logistics will fail. How ? He bases this entirely on Russian

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army experience. Sir, surely you know that logistics over a 400 km line of communication and a 70 km line of communication esp in desert are two entirely different things. You say Russian troops went without food for 48 hrs. It won't happen but if it does, it's no big deal

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Next Panag talks about ''stand off weapons''. I agree they are important and I strongly believe that we should increase long range fires and also change our concepts of utilisation for them. But saying that Pak has an advantage over us is delusional and dishonest

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Lets come to China

People forget that our objective against China will be to hold our own, make tactical gains in some places via shallow offensives. We are not marching into Lhasa

Main points

1. China cannot deploy large numbers against us because mountain passes allow

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only a brigade or two to come through at one time. You can hold 3-4 divisions (60,000) enemy troops with just 1, 2 brigades (4000) at a pass. But we have matched China man to man !

2. Panag says China can launch a massive strike against us. Sure, but they cannot decapitate

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us. Our forces are well spread out and dug out. Their initial missile strikes will cause attrition but we will retaliate by missiles, arty and IAF and hammer their lines of communication which are 1000 - 2000 km long

Panag has deliberately missed this very important point

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about China's logistics vulnerability. They are very stretched out already as they are far away from their Han heartland. We are not.

Plus our Navy will come into play too

Here is another thread that on how we can handle China. Do read

es.finance.yahoo.com/news/does-indi…

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Cold facts of the matter is that we can handle both China and Pak today if we use military logic i.e we do the operationally right thing and be bold

My worry is not equipment but people like Panag, Shawney and others who will act as 5th columnists

How do we handle them

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