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@reportersujan
Mar 20 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
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Breaking News: The US has asked permission from India to support a military asset that will be used to bomb Iran from Western India. In bureaucratic terms it means an interpretation of the LEMOA.
LEMOA is Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement. A twist of the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA) that the US has with The Phillippines.
My take: with their military assets, including the headquarters of the 5th fleet, bombed in Manama, Bahrain, the Usrael needs land-based fruition for crew. India will have to take a call.
No Indian Navy berth is long enough to host an aircraft carrier that is the size of nine football fields from home goal to a Romario kick. So, it will be at anchorage while the galleys (kitchens) will be filled up.
The US military asset will be at anchorage off the Konkan coast.
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Jan 4, 2022
This is a picture of the Pangong Tso. Looking from the south bank to the 'Fingers' in the north.
From a tour in July 2016. The bridge the Chinese are building is right (to the south) of here. The Lake is 135 kms long and shaped like a boomerang.
The 'boomerang' is concaved vis China/Tibet.
Bit of a surprise that in the specifics, no one has explained terms 'Limit of Patrolling' (LOP) and 'Line of Actual Control' (LAC).
On the Pangong Tso, face-offs were frequent. But the Indian Army at least tried, like this:
This is how they confronted the Chinese on the blue water:
telegraphindia.com/7-days/at-14-0…
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Sep 8, 2020
Last night in Ladakh shots were fired, for the first time on the India-China frontier in 45 years.

The last time was at Tulung La. It was firing in the fog.

What happened then?

A thread:
Tulung La is in Western Arunachal Pradesh at a height of 4726 metres (about 15,500-odd feet). In November 1975 it was patrolled by the 5 Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force that had earlier escorted the Dalai Lama to India when he fled Tibet.
The story now is pieced together from accounts of the US Embassy in India declassified in July 2006 and by other Indian authors.
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Aug 31, 2020
Making sense of the topography in which the clashes between the Indian and Chinese militaries happened on the night of August 29/30. Here goes:
The Pangong Tso is a boomerang-shaped lake. Like a wide 'V'. At it's east, often confused with the North because of its lay, are the fingers.
It is 135 kms long. Even in the western bank, the Chinese have held 90 kms.
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Jun 21, 2020
Arguably the most diverse regiment of the Indian Army is the Assam Regiment, drawing recruits from nearly 40 different ethnicities/tribes/communities. You may have heard their song:
At its regimental centre in Shillong, everyone attends Church on Sundays.
The tune of the Assam Regiment song has traces to 'John Brown's Body', going back to the American Civil War.

In post-colonial societies such as India, there is such a thing called "historical exceptionalism."
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Jun 20, 2020
Statement on All Party Meeting of 19th June 2020 pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
What has also come even as the PMO's clarification was being issued is this statement from the army, not suggesting that they were timed simultaneously :
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Jun 19, 2020
First questions👇
@archismohan:MEA statement on Thursday: "the Chinese side departed from the consensus to respect the LAC in the Galwan valley. On the late evening and night of 15th June 2020, a violent face off happened when the Chinese side unilaterally attempted to change the status quo there"
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