Bharat Rakshak

I wish Mr. Bector would elaborate as much as is possible. Rudradev, although he has been absent a long while from the forum, there is enough in this past postings to suggest that his words are very well considered and well worth listening to. I'm not suggesting blind obedience, merely urging cautio...

:shock: You mean we should instead pretend that the various "missiles" and "warheads" Pakistan claims to have are actually a functional threat? Look boss. Anybody willing to do the right kind of favours in exchange, can acquire and flash around a Chinese .22 automatic and a clip ...

The first thing is to understand that there is no way to distinguish between Pakistani intentions on the JDAM issue and their intentions on their missile based deterrence ideas, so when you talk to them you have to keep both of those possibilities in mind. . This is the point that is still not enti...

The Paki cruise missile IMO is a weapon of civilian terror. It is probably at this stage not accurate enought to be used against military targets using conventional warheads. But it will be used by the Pakis to spread widespread civilian terror in India from Ludhiana in the north all the way as far...

If there are significant circumstantial differences between this and earlier "birthday presents" and "confidence boosters", perhaps the reason is that this time it is not Pakistan who is trying to send us a message with the test. It is China. China are extremely nervous about the...

The difference between Musharraf/Shaukat Aziz/Khurshid Kasuri on one hand, and General Aslam Beg on the other, can be completely understood by applying the metaphor of 1) A Beggar vs. 2) A Beggar With One Week To Live. See, a normal beggar plies his "trade" with a certain level of audacity...

Notice Musharraf doesn't specify how MANY centrifuges. Maybe...all of them? That would put an end to the controversy once and for all, surely.

Yes, seems like a lot of fur flying. Sethi joins in as well in his editorial , with the standard cry of injured Pakee innocence. BTW, I'm willing to bet this isn't just Sethi. Some of the fur flying in DC has landed on the Paks and got them worried. Oh yes, more than a hint of panic in that edit by...

S^2, could you please explain the following terms/acronyms from General Naresh's communique

1) RRF (is it Rapid Reaction Force?)
2) FORTRAN
3) Boyd loop
4) CAPs (as in "saturate the air with CAPs".)

From the desk of Imtiaz K. Chandiwala, I.A.S. Principal Secretary to the Minister of Defense South Block, New Delhi 110-011 Jan 17th 2004 Mantriji, Having reviewed your memo of last week, I have submitted my thoughts per the issues you raised. I am of the opinion when giants fight, its often not dir...

Very broad strokes, if I had the ear of the Indian strategists, I would advise: 1) Play taut defense in the East, inflicting attritive losses with naval and air power. The Red units described in GD's Chapter 2 haven't got an indefinite amount of fight in them... not if you're thinking in terms of we...

Nice scenario SS. Here's a suggestion-- only if it's OK with GD though, and enough people are interested to make it work. GD has laid out an excellent basis for an entirely believable scenario in his first four chapters. Instead of letting him do all the hard work and lapping it up from now on, how ...

Dec 12th 2007 1800 hours While speculation has led to the consensus that the militants occupying the school are most probably from an NLFT faction, there is absolutely no firsthand evidence to confirm this. The Agartala Grand Sentinel reports that the town drunk Debroy Moong saw several strangers ra...

GD: You wanna wargame? How would you handle THIS? :twisted: The Awakening, Parallel 1 Dec 11 2007 Over the last 24 hours, alert Security forces in West Bengal have foiled three separate attempts to sabotage the broadgauge railway tracks passing through the New Jalpaiguri, Dhubari and Bongaigaon sect...

Originally posted by Rangudu: I have two: AMPA - Atomic Monopoly Preservation Agent ASS - Atomic Status-quo Supporter :D Nice...but perhaps a little too mild for our purposes? "Monopolist" has a commercial ring to it, suggesting white-collar and relatively victimless crime. Only other bus...

AJay: think Ngo Dinh Diem. In the grand scheme of things, Mush and his political career will be far more short-lived than even Noriega, leave alone Saddam.

Originally posted by Calvin: Folks - how does the Saudi - Pak nuke agreement of Sep 2003 fit into all this? I submit that it could well be the classic Paki bluff, i.e. "Don't push us too hard/mess with us/dig too deep/call us on our crimes....or we will make your worst nightmare come true.&quo...