I see @DrJitendraSingh keeps making statements saying India will take POK. While that is militarily feasible and we have discussed concept of operations ''Manoeuvre in Mountains'' on spaces, it will be a disaster unless we confront reality about Jlh@d
1. POK, GB population-
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According to 2017 census POK population is 41 lacs, GB is 20 lacs. Thats 61 lac m'lims we will have to add to our population if we take POK, GB. Remember that in 1947/48 in GB many of the m'lim JK State Forces officers and men murdered their Dogra, Gorkha, Sikh 'brothers'
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incl those who had served with them in combat in places like Burma. Just two examples - Capt Raghubir Singh Thapa was tortured to death, Capt Prem Singh was strangled. CO 4 JAK Lt Col Narain Singh was murdered by his own coy commander. Maj Nasarullah Khan, Capt Nek Alam etc
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were just following their basic religious teachings
2. Let's be honest. Do we want to absorb 61 lac more m'lims. Are we running short of Rohingyas and other worthies ? What is the government's plan on integration of POK, GB if we take it ?
3. Does this plan involve more
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appeasement through increase in allocation for @naqvimukhtar Minority Affairs ministry ? Its allocation has already increased by 100% over 7 years. How much more ? Will we go overboard in trying to get them into IAS, IPS ?
4. If that's the plan why should Indian Army, IAF
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shed a lot of blood for this appeasement ? What benefit will it achieve ? Will it not just hasten the Islamisation of Bharat
Perhaps RSS who say they can raise a big army in three days can take POK. I'm sure Muslim Rashtriya Morcha
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will lead the spearhead of the attack on POK, GB
5. So what should India do against Pak ? If we go to war, we should not think about taking large tracts of territory for so called ''Akhand Bharat''. We should focus on destroying the Pak Armed Forces, bring about the break
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up of Pak into 3-4 independent enties. We should evacuate all Hindus and Sikhs from Pak. And from Bangladesh also
Can we destroy Pak armed forces and break up Pak ? Yes. Absolutely. I have written a lot on that. But the thrust has to be breaking Pak spine not taking POK
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It is my assessment that #US and #NATO are not only helping #Ukraine with Intelligence but are also doing strikes directly. Consider that several Batallion and Brigade Commanders of Russian Army have been killed. This cannot be only snipers because after the first couple of
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kills all units and formations will immediately ensure that all officers stop wearing rank badges and there is no way to distinguish them to a sniper. And snipers get targets of opportunity and snipers cannot be so close on all occasions. Take the LOC. Its a very active
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battle zone with several casualties . Despite that over three decades I cannot recall any Indian CO or formation commander being hit in sniper fire
Russian officers are being hit in their command tents, vehicles very precisely. A sniper cannot see them there. These are
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''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
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
Three critcial questions on tactical aspect of #ModiSecurityBreach that must be asked - thread
1. There is always a plan B in every operation, action of security forces. Plan B here was obv movement by road if heptr was not possible. Such road would have been recconitored
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in advance, all ambush points, choke points, kill zones,other danger would have been assessed in great detail. Buildings with line of sight to route would have been assessed, sanitised. Snipers placed if needed. So a route would have been prepared IN ADVANCE by #PunjabPolice
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Route would be checked for booby traps especially on bridges and flyovers. Mines too. This would be ready and available BEFORE PM aircraft landed in Bhisiana Air Force Base
Question 1 - Why did it take 20 mins for PP to give clearance for this route when Plan B then ?
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#ModiSecurityBreach has grave consequences that no one is analysing - thread 👇
1. Like an armoured vehicle is safe only when mobile so is a VVIP convoy. Mobility, speed ensure that no one can pinpoint location and target the convoy by sniper, Rocket Launcher etc. PM convoy
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was held stationary in a kill zone (no lateral movement possible on flyover) for 20 mins. Even 30 seconds is enough to launch a devastating attack with ATGMs and RLs
Or they could have laid demolition charges on bridge before hand and detonated it when convoy was stopped
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in pre selected location in kill zone.
This was a potentially catastrophic situation that is just shocking. Worst nightmare for any competent protection agency like SPG
2. When INT agencies, diplomats across the world analyse this they will see that govt of India's writ
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He was my Chief. As his अंतिम संस्कार happens today, I would like to set the record straight on a few things
1. Scrutiny - No Army Chief was scrutinised and criticised as much as he was. Day in and out, by media and veterans and some serving. Not PN Thapar, JN Chaudhri or
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Deepak Kapoor, but it was Bipin Rawat who was scrutinised and criticised. Why ? Partly because its the SM age and criticism is easy and infact expected. Partly because he was a Bharatiya like VK Singh. Lets face it, we are a mentally colonised people. If someone speaks in
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Hindi we look down upon them. Only servants speak Hindi you see. Partly because wokism is growing dangerously in our society and its cool to criticise anyone who stands up for soldiers
Some veterans criticised him also because of decisions like cantt roads and CSD. Me too
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Modi has maneuvered us into a very difficult position. Demonitisation was a great, gutsy move that gave hardship but was accepted because Modi had "Street Cred". Was seen as strong &fair. It went through very smoothly
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But his Street Cred has evaporated now
His weakness from Dec 2019 has shown voters that he cannot back up his own policies despite 303 seats - CAA on hold for example despite being law of land
But there is a bigger problem. He is no longer seen as fair
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