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- 01 Dec 2005 07:25
- Forum: Military History Archive
- Topic: Lessons of 1962 War for a possible new Sino-India conflict
- Replies: 222
- Views: 135745
- 01 Dec 2005 06:56
- Forum: Military History Archive
- Topic: Lessons of 1962 War for a possible new Sino-India conflict
- Replies: 222
- Views: 135745
Hi Shiv, I have heard the number 14 thrown around I am not sure if these are in outer tibet only or if they are including stuff in Amdo also. The ones that I know of are 1) Damxung 2) Lhasa (Gongkar) (Ramai) 3) Xigaze 4) Qamdo Bamda 5) Nyingchi Airport 6) Shiquanhe Airport (Ngari) 7) Lhunze Airport ...
- 30 Nov 2005 20:17
- Forum: Military History Archive
- Topic: Lessons of 1962 War for a possible new Sino-India conflict
- Replies: 222
- Views: 135745
Hi, The old deterrence equation was that the Indians would not base any airplanes capable of carrying nuclear weapons within range of China's cities and in return the Chinese would not place nuclear tipped MRBMs in the tibetan plateau. This needs to be reworked as imo - the Chinese are building airp...
- 30 Nov 2005 19:44
- Forum: Military History Archive
- Topic: Lessons of 1962 War for a possible new Sino-India conflict
- Replies: 222
- Views: 135745
Hi, I agree with Anoop. The PLA's numerical superiority would not have played a part due to the fact that they had maybe one or two major airfields in the region. Getting fuel and ammo up to those airfields would have been difficult and harder still to get things to subsidiary airfields once the mai...
- 23 Oct 2005 02:50
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Opposition to the Indo-US nuclear cooperation agreement
- Replies: 321
- Views: 111218
- 06 Oct 2005 22:03
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation - 31 March 2005
- Replies: 329
- Views: 121693
I have problems with the US supplying nuclear reactors to the Pakistanis. All I ask is that the proliferation risk be minimized. As we know that Pakistanis like A Q Khan have sold nuclear technology to Libya and Iran. The are also reports that Pakistan was selling nuclear technology to KSA. I find i...
- 05 Oct 2005 07:15
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
- 27 Sep 2005 20:19
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
Hi Calvin, IIRC the clean coal tech we have around isn't sufficient for what the larger plants will require. I don't know the exact constraint but given time I am sure that alternatives could be developed in India fairly quickly. Ofcourse even in that scenario - the CO2 emissions remain. P_Saggu, Th...
- 27 Sep 2005 01:38
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
Hmm.. I shall use this article by Ammara Khan to illustrate common flaws in Pakistani thinking about deterrence. In short, an unofficial and undeclared nuclear arm race has nearly completed its first lap. What race my dear? There is none. The Pakistanis want to race India but they can't and that is ...
- 26 Sep 2005 18:41
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
Calvin, Yes, I am aware of the fact that we are not limited by the clean air act. I guess the point that I was trying to bring out is that Western nations are concerned about global CO2 emissions - a fact emphasized by the Kyoto protocols. While some like the US may avoid signing the protocols due t...
- 23 Sep 2005 19:50
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
Guys, It is a simulated conversation. It never happened in reality - the references to real places and real events are only place-setters. i.e ignore that part and focus on the text. A reading of the text will show where the policy of provocation becomes necessary and the manner in which the provoca...
- 19 Sep 2005 21:14
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
They met again. It was summer of 2005 and it was the first time in seven years. As the GS and the Fourth boy waited patiently sitting on the corner table of the Au Bon Pain restaurant, and the OC and the AG walked across Harvard square waving to them. Gone were the torn Tshirts, dirty jeans and the ...
- 19 Sep 2005 20:37
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
- 17 Sep 2005 23:07
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
By the side of the Main Building (or MB as it is called) was a small shed that overlooked the School of Management. The School was new... it was being constructed by an Alumnus called Kanwal Rekhi but the shed had housed a coffee shop that sold instant coffee, a plate of maggi noodles, and chocolate...
- 14 Sep 2005 22:01
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
Sigh.. and I thought for once someone had posted something besides an IB4TL on the forum. Ochoaomar, The day we on BRF reach Pakistani levels - I fell the Republic and everything that it stands for will have come to an end. There is enough on the scenarios thread to scare the living daylights out of...
- 14 Sep 2005 04:24
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
- 06 Sep 2005 20:17
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: 1965 India Pakistan War: Forty Years Since
- Replies: 99
- Views: 88429
Actually guys - KSub is telling us something very important. The US inherited the pessimistic assessment of the former British colonial administration that India's survival as a single country was not in the interests of great powers and the India was actually quite weak as a nation and few well aim...
- 05 Sep 2005 21:33
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
- 05 Sep 2005 20:55
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
- 01 Sep 2005 01:10
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
Ok let’s consider this for a minute, • Shooting/killing BSF on a regular bases [checked] • Border violation [checked] • Hub of Islamic terrorist organization [checked] • Nuke Nude [checked] • Pushing militants into India [checked] I believe the guru must have guessed it by now. The country I am tal...
- 31 Aug 2005 23:35
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
- 31 Aug 2005 21:16
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
Surinder, What I am saying here is *my own view*. It is not to be seen to represent anything more than that. I say this because you are now talking about the specifics of the escalation landscape between India and Pakistan. Talking about this is extremely risky as it gives our neighbors too many ide...
- 31 Aug 2005 20:57
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
Pillai, Shiv brings up an interesting point that Pakistanis can actually parade their status as Islam's nuclear power because of the fact their leaders are paid hirelings of the west who are allowed to rent western media sources to achieve a western interest and this allows Pakistan extra space in t...
- 31 Aug 2005 01:34
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
- 30 Aug 2005 22:28
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
Hi Vasudevan ah.. thats my mistake, evidently my knowledge of the chaps who fought in afghanistan leaves much to be desired... how about the tanks being manned by reserves?? I have difficulty imagining such a thing. The Pakistanis cannot currently train reserves as they have a hard time keeping the ...
- 30 Aug 2005 21:44
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
Iranians have seemingly managed to avoid aggression from the US by maintaining an active nuclear weapons program that would be very difficult to destroy. By your definition, would this be deterrence? I do not wish to speak to this issue at the present time but I will say this much - the Iranians ar...
- 30 Aug 2005 21:30
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
continued from previous post Err... btw what is this escalation landscape ? When thinking about this stuff I find it useful to keep the following analogy in mind. Think about a small bowl of land, i.e. a relatively flat plain surrounded by a ring of mountains. We shall call the flat part - the vall...
- 30 Aug 2005 20:53
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
- 30 Aug 2005 06:37
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
Sugriva, I really doubt they are going to nuke their own homeworld. They might nuke land in Sindh for effect but I don't think they are going to risk contaminating their own topsoil. Vasudevan, AFAIK there is no such thing as a veteran muj. gunner that is pashtun. The only muj tankies were Tajik / U...
- 30 Aug 2005 06:20
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
continued from previous post. Oh!!.. so its all completely safe to do as long as we can communicate properly..!! Not exactly. As I said earlier - once you have stable deterrence - then the excursions - the escalation games begin. The key to victory in these games is that our side should achieve esc...
- 30 Aug 2005 03:06
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
- 29 Aug 2005 21:55
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
- 29 Aug 2005 21:18
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
Hi, Quick replies. Ali, Boss, in Pakistan the govt. tells you - all terrorist activity is carried out by RAW and then they tell you that India will not attack Pakistan because of nuclear deterrence. How do you know which story to believe? Is India not attacking you because as your Musharraf tells yo...
- 29 Aug 2005 05:51
- Forum: Nuclear Issues Archive
- Topic: Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
- Replies: 94
- Views: 48533
Nuclear Deterrence: What's all the fuss about?
Hi, In the last week I had time to refect upon ideas of deterrence and I wrote up a small essay that I'd like to share with your folks here. Most of the old timers on the forum will find this a little painful but I want to reach out to the newbies here and atleast nail a few key concepts down as bes...
- 25 Aug 2005 04:37
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
Hi, Why do we care? These threads on scenarios are learning experiences for the posters and the readers. From the poster's perspective as Y I Patel points out it is a great way to summarize his thinking about the Indian military. The Pakistanis however I suspect view this with thread differently. Th...
- 25 Aug 2005 01:45
- Forum: Military Scenarios Archive
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - Part III
- Replies: 326
- Views: 540000
Hi, P_Saggu's scenario talks about an attack on the Pakistan Army's nuclear command and control system. I think at this time that might scare our Pakistani visitors a little too much so lets hold back on that. His scenario as it stands has said quite enough, if they need to be scared a little more t...
- 24 Aug 2005 20:26
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Cruise Missile Test in Pakistan: Final Thread
- Replies: 89
- Views: 50591
continued from previous post. 7) Sri. Parthasarthy's article has touched upon the role of China in Pakistan development of nuclear weapons and platforms. He has indicated that most of China's aid to Pakistan is motivated by a desire to contain India. It is possible to see China as an enabler of Pak...
- 24 Aug 2005 20:09
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Cruise Missile Test in Pakistan: Final Thread
- Replies: 89
- Views: 50591
continued from above 4) It is best if the Pakistanis also understand the need for restraint in public utterances. If I can be misled - mind you I am a nobody - people far above me can be misled too. The Pakistanis should imagine the consequences of that - esp. since if and when the decision is take...
- 24 Aug 2005 19:43
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Cruise Missile Test in Pakistan: Final Thread
- Replies: 89
- Views: 50591
- 24 Aug 2005 03:48
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Cruise Missile Test in Pakistan: Final Thread
- Replies: 89
- Views: 50591