Some thoughts on #RajouriAttack. I will be factual and hope you read without prejudice

1. We lost 05 soldiers today. Two weeks ago we lost 05 in an ambush. Since 1990 we have lost 02 Brig, 9-10 COs and several Lt Cols in the valley. This is much more than all our losses of

1/n these ranks from 1948 in all wars including 1962.

Worse, we have not inflicted any casualty to Pak Army except the odd Lt/Capt and that also in retaliation on LC ops

2. We've lost 15,000+ civilians, 7,500+ security force but only eliminated expendable jihadis. A costless

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Just discovered a 80 G donation to ''National Foundation of Communal Harmony'' is 100% eligible for tax relief with no cap. But a donation to @daksinvrindavan etc gets only 50% capped at 10% of Gross Total Income. So with a big capital loss you get 0% relief

#IslamicRashtra ☪️ @MNageswarRaoIPS sir this is grossly unfair. The state first takes my tax money & temple money for triptikaran of jihad and then does not even allow me to get tax relief for giving donations to a gaushala. But tells me I will get unlimited relief for donations for jiahd 😡

Command failures during #KargilWar - Thread

1. Intelligence - There was some intelligence about unusual and significant build up by Pak given by IB, R&AW. But it did not say that heights, posts vacated by us would be occupied. Such INT is very hard to get because you need

1/ a source at the heart of the enemy military leadership

Could the Army have put the INT pieces together and read enemy intentions ? Yes, some did that but senior cdrs did not heed them. Ml warned in Aug '98 that 500 Afghans had been concentrated to Gurikot NJ7959 for ingress

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Sir allow me to first look at impact to the war fighting ability of army because that is the critical issue. I will address your questions at the end of the thread

1. Training - Training period in regimental centres in Infantry is 9 months. But is a jawan ready to fight

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https://twitter.com/ProfMKay/status/1536965395781156864

when he joins the unit after 9 months training ? NO

He is not even trusted with a LMG. It takes years of structured training plus operational experience to grow into a useful soldier. He does MMG, Mortar, Driving, missile courses over the years in training schools. He is

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I have insight into the govt point of view. It is - we don't want to spend more on defence, Revenue/capital expenditure ratio must be reduced. Their think tanks also believe that army is too big and must be reduced. Fine. But then lets evaluate reducing nos. But we are raising
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https://twitter.com/palepurshankar/status/1536574263792001024

new battalions

Lets look at troop & firepower mix, HQs etc. For example, do we need SWC now that it controls only 10 Corps ? Can we move officers into DPSUs, MOD and reduce Col and above vacancies in army. I doubt all of this will make any substantial difference to costs

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Ranchi Police exercsied extreme restraint in dealing with murderous mobs who's modus operandi was very similar to Kashmiri terrorists

1. Two terrorists (read thread to see why they should be classified as terrorists) died in hospital several hours after being injured. Ranchi

1/ Police is seen to be equipped with AK series rifles. A 7.62*39 AK round at 250 yards is almost guaranteed to kill the target on the spot. One reason is that army is trained to shoot at centre of mass to ensure "ek goli ek dushman". In Ranchi both terrorists received a few

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A gunner friend told me this story many years ago

General sahab and his wife were to visit an artillery unit deployed somewhere on the western border. The entire unit was doing hectic preparations. Soon preparations were complete. CO sahab being a thorough professional

1/n naturally conducted rehearsals. Adjt being even more thorough suggested that a Young Officer be detailed to spend the night in the beautiful ''machan'' accomodation they had prepared for Gen and his lady wife so that any lucanae maybe identified and fixed before the visit

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There are two measures that govt is taking soon will completely reverse Art 370 removal

1. Delimitation - Delimitation is expected to be on 2011 census which was a fraud per BJP itself. In 2002 Jammu population was more than Kashmir but 2011 census says Kashmir population

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https://twitter.com/RituRathaur/status/1507989157687177217

increased by 14 lacs an increase of 25% and all of them were voters according to the census. But Jammu population went up only by 19% and only 5% were voters

So according to 2011 census Jammu population has reduced significantly vs Kashmir. BJP called this a fraud then

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Dear Joe Biden @potus,

You call #Putin a butcher for a very low casualty war that NATO, US Military Industrial complex started

What do you call US Presidents who dropped 7.5 million tonne of bombs = 469 Hiroshima Bombs on Vietnam. Your war killed 3.2 million Vietnamese

1/ What do you call George Bush Sr who dropped 90,000 tonnes = 6 Hiroshima bombs on Iraq and killed 50,000-60,000 Iraqis

Or George Bush Jr Gulf War 2 who decimated Iraq again, killed 600,000

Or Harry Truman who dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima, Nagasaki killing 200,000

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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

1/n 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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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-

1/n 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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Dear western commentators & their Indian media coolies :

India is not voting against Russia not because of our arms supply chain but because the West and NATO are aggressors in #RussianUkrainianWar. You promised not to expand NATO after 1991. But you relentlessly expanded

1/n east gobbling up several countries coming right to the border of Russia. You effected regime change in Ukraine and forced a madman Nazi sympathiser #Zelenskyy on Ukraine

Let me remind you that the US had taken the world to brink of nuclear war in Cuban Missile crisis when

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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

1/n 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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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

1/n 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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#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

1/n 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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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

1/n 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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Self Goals on internal security. A thread

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

1/n 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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Allow me to make a few points here What is the result of the ban on Hindu festivals?

1. It destroys the culture and our आत्मविश्वास. That impacts our ability to solve our problems and progress as a nation

2. It stops us being a cohesive people who can support each other

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https://twitter.com/RituRathaur/status/1444339970638966786

in दुख and सुख. There is nothing to bind us together if our festivals go. The breakdown happens both at family,society level

3. The above stops us from defending ourselves when we are inevitably attacked by Abrahmic religions who want to conquer India for Mohhamed or Jesus

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Much needed and high time. Alongwith that we should have a serious and open minded look at many colonial vestiges

1. Nam Namak Nishan - As someone pointed out to me recently (I hadn't thought of it) the Namak especially was British salary being paid to a mercenary army

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https://twitter.com/ajitdatta/status/1433685812487417860

of natives to protect the British empire. It signifies a debt to the British empire and not to the Dharti or Rashtra (civilisation)

The Indian Army does not have a आदर्श वाक्य / motto like all its Corps, Regiments do

Perhaps we shud have one. धर्मों रक्षित धर्मः is ideal

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Hamid Mir has told us about the 💘 love triangle between Lt Gen Faiz Hamid DG ISI, Aroosa Alam and Amrinder Singh

1. Lt Gen Faiz Hamid is a "brave" officer of the Pak army. Commissioned into the Baloch Regt he rose to head the C wing of ISI. The one the keeps tab on

1/n politicians. Later he was Adjudant General. And soon after he got that proud coveted post DG ISI

2 He does hands on INT gathering. Thats why a couple of years ago he was "entertaining" Aroosa Alam in a farmhouse. It was rather warm so naturally they removed their clothes

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India's permanent representative to UN supported Palestians on #SheikhJarrah in Juresalem - a huge mistake and an amoral action

What is #SheikhJarrah and what does this have to do with #IsraelUnderAttack

Read on folks. This is important

1/n 1. SheikhJarrah is a property dispute between individuals and property papers are with Jews. Courts have also ruled for Jews. In 1885 Jews bought a few houses there and title transferr happened to them legally in land registry of Ottoman empire

2. In 1948 Jordan attacked

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