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- 28 Feb 2015 02:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
- Replies: 3947
- Views: 429240
Re: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
Why not try to present what major think tanks in India think of the US. Is there any proof that the popular thinking is that the US wishes to contain India or has actively sponsored secession within the country ? That can easily be dismissed as handiwork of macaulayputras. Does the decidedly nation...
- 28 Feb 2015 02:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
- Replies: 3947
- Views: 429240
Re: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
US action in 1971 couldn't have resulted in war. The president needs congressional approval to begin one, and none would have been given for one against India. Even the state department was against the actions of the duo of Kissinger and Nixon. Details of this are very much in the open if one wishe...
- 24 Feb 2015 00:55
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
- Replies: 3947
- Views: 429240
Re: India-US Relations : News and Discussion
On what basis are you calling this a CT? Is it because it does not fit the frame of reference that Uncle Sam has been feeding you since your school days?KrishnaK wrote: Instead of peddling this CT you could chose to spend some time reading up instead or present evidence for your claims.
- 01 Feb 2015 08:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine
- Replies: 4026
- Views: 387807
Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine
Indeed.UlanBatori wrote:Kanan gets reinforcements from NBC
- 01 Feb 2015 08:49
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine
- Replies: 4026
- Views: 387807
Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine
All true; the Russians had to respond to this encroachment and a new Cold War (sanctions and all) was already inevitable because the US was hell bent on it. I don't dispute anything you said. But I'm glad we don't have a government that tells grieving mothers to shut up and denies them death benefi...
- 01 Feb 2015 08:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine
- Replies: 4026
- Views: 387807
Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine
I think the Ukraine rebels and the Russian troops fighting alongside them have suffered far more than most of us realize. And most of this is Putin's fault. Any reliable source for this? If Putin was a real leader he'd have either stopped at Crimea and made peace, or invaded and taken all of Donbas...
- 18 Jan 2015 19:46
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Intelligence and National Security Discussion
- Replies: 979
- Views: 226286
Re: Intelligence and National Security Discussion
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Did-RAWs-Colombo-chief-play-a-role-in-Mahinda-Rajapaksas-poll-defeat/articleshow/45928276.cms Hope we really did this Irrespective to whether RAW did this or not TOIlet has managed to do the following:- 1) Sow seeds to doubt among the Lankans that their elec...
- 13 Jan 2015 09:06
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
Budding Journlist6: The SOP states Ashok should have chased and not Mohan. Clearly the SOP was not followed and so the chase never took place.
- 12 Jan 2015 03:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2984
- Views: 361523
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
what the "West" actually stands for is "White Christian people" only they don't say that these days. Actually White Anglo Saxon Protestants mainly In particular for USA, as per Samuel Huntington (his book "Who We Are" covers this in detail), the identity is basically: ...
- 10 Jan 2015 04:31
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
Well, I will tell you my perspective, a repeat. My disbelief was because navy is over all incharge and if it was a terror boat, then why navy did not get involved. At that time Naval involvement was not known. If there were 2 terror boats why CG sent just 1 craft? Since there was a debate if it was...
- 10 Jan 2015 04:11
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
Shiv, Cole bombing was a surprise. I thought of that. But this is not a surprise element. This was a chase. I do not agree that that boat can harm an IN boat. Normally, they form a cordon. gemini's and ships chopper are sent in advance etc. This has no parallels with cole incident. A boat laden wit...
- 10 Jan 2015 04:05
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
A month after 26/11, I was at a party (indic) and one worthy who has a PeeChaddi and director level DIE was wondering out loud whether the GoI/Security people had a court order or not before tapping the mobile phones of terrorists and recording the conversations between terrorists and their handler...
- 09 Jan 2015 09:38
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Coast Guard: News & Discussion
- Replies: 552
- Views: 184411
Re: Indian Coast Guard Discussion
I hope they are not just giving the "verification certificate" without any basic checks, even after taking Rs. 500.chackojoseph wrote:ramanna,
So, if they are paid Rs 500, the verification comes in few hours.
- 09 Jan 2015 08:31
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
Dear Chaco, I am not trying to call you out and I am sure neither are others. But this is a general venting of the frustration due to media not seeing (or perhaps seeing but not agreeing) with the larger picture here. I hope you see the philosophical difference between you and most others in this th...
- 09 Jan 2015 08:16
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
shyams, I am still waiting for example. Why this is silly theory here? The fact that the boat blew itself leads to less credence to it being a smuggling boat. And EVEN is the most outlandish scenario, IF it ended up being a smuggling boat, just because the boat choose to NOT to submit to Indian gov...
- 09 Jan 2015 08:11
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
I speculated that based on what CG said that it was a illicit transfer. We all have the right to speculate. But please understand that when a professional journalist (like yourself) speculate without any evidence it comes across very differently and plain incorrect. You should understand that the p...
- 09 Jan 2015 08:07
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
Shyams, I still am looking forward which countries you mention. I can think of only china where they issue releases and don't take questions. The boat blew up due to fire set up by the personnel inside as per CG statement. CG later stated that there were 2 jerrycans with approx 200 liters of fuel. ...
- 09 Jan 2015 08:04
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
No one has disagreed or disregarded with CG action. The crux of the matter is what it was - a smuggling boat or a terror boat. If the boat blew itself up, there is reasonable probability that it is not a smuggling boat. Therefore that leaves the "terror boat" as the only viable alternativ...
- 09 Jan 2015 07:59
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
No one has disagreed or disregarded with CG action. The crux of the matter is what it was - a smuggling boat or a terror boat. If the boat blew itself up, there is reasonable probability that it is not a smuggling boat. Therefore that leaves the "terror boat" as the only viable alternativ...
- 09 Jan 2015 07:56
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
shyams. Which country you are making an example where military does not question governments? Even in paki land, journalists end up dead or disappear as they have questioned their governments. it has not stopped someone or the other questioning their govt. GOI has not given its side of story. All i...
- 09 Jan 2015 07:54
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
Out of thread - but it is high time the govt. put some sort of restrictions on the basic qualifications (like contemporary history/geopolitics, military affairs, Logic, etc.) that media personnel needs before writing about news pertaining to national security.
- 09 Jan 2015 07:49
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
saravana, shyams US does not hesitate but verify. Even in osama case, they had live link where prez was in the room to give the orders. Just as an example. They make mistakes inspite. A useful idiot can be an idiot who fans that it was definitely a terror boat. How can you be sure that pakis won't ...
- 09 Jan 2015 07:39
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
Sid, Any military action, anywhere in the world, brings on diverse reactions. As most military actions, it lacks conclusive evidence. Journalists. historians, investigators, patriots etc will interpret in their own templates. Especially a right minded journalist will use word allegedly and will giv...
- 09 Jan 2015 07:25
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
- Replies: 969
- Views: 133138
Re: Breaking news: Coast guard intercepted terrorist boat
Sid, Take this question in spirit. If the same happens to Indian's then? We term it poor people who strayed across, bombed by jihadists pakis (which ofcource they are). Maloy Krishna Dhar once told me a fact that I really understood well. I was in favour of R&AW constituting a black ops team el...
- 06 May 2010 04:17
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1371045
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
A few observations, both good and bad on this article (assuming that this news is 100% acurate) The good news first 1. We have caught this traitor. 2. We have managed so far (2 weeks) to keep this under the wraps. 3. We still don't have a full biography of this officer in the media, and an hour by h...
- 12 Apr 2010 05:47
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: CT & COIN Operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
- Replies: 2894
- Views: 793058
Re: CT and COIN operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
I think there is widespread under-estimation of the capabilities of Maoists. As per this ToI Article there is cross country integration of Maoists forces going on and Indian Maoists are undergoing training in urban warfare for targeted assaults. This has serious repercussions because now the Maoist...
- 08 Apr 2010 02:04
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: CT & COIN Operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
- Replies: 2894
- Views: 793058
Re: CT and COIN operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
To effectively counter this menace, we should also think about economically developing the backward areas. Using air power to crush the maoists would work in short term. But there is no guarantee that the true ring leaders would be killed. They are ones who needs to be killed, not the foot soldiers....
- 08 Apr 2010 01:55
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: CT & COIN Operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
- Replies: 2894
- Views: 793058
Re: CT and COIN operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
One recurring them I notice in this so called strategy is letting our CRPF into a trap and getting them butchered. Lack of planning, lack of equipments, lack of intel..., the list goes on. I am copying and pasting an question from CNN-IBN --------------- CNN-IBN: Is this a massive intelligence failu...
- 03 Apr 2010 06:37
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1371045
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
Whoa Nellie! A few weeks ago I'd posted about this large place of worship in Navi Mumbai (same vicinity as the DY Patil Stadium, Nerul). Weekend classes for kids have doubled! Surely the intelligence community has a hook into some of them (as in, to figure out how bad things are/will be). Hopefully...
- 02 Apr 2010 23:29
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles in Nuclear Backdrop
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11113
Re: Armoured Vehicles in Nuclear Backdrop
I know this post of mine will probably trigger fellow SDREs to use ridicule onlee, but I had to say it. Personally, I don't mind the new eggs coming into this forum as self proclaimed jarnails and claiming they see something so obvious that others cannot see. Well, most of the times they are wrong,...
- 02 Apr 2010 03:29
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles in Nuclear Backdrop
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11113
Re: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
Not necessarily. One of the factors leading to the decline in the importance of the tank (and not just obsolescence, the two things are separate) is probably ATGMs no doubt, but that is not all. Apart from the threat posed aircraft, i think an armoured thrust will, these days, be met with tactical ...
- 27 Mar 2010 05:58
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3520
- Views: 789311
Re: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
Ok Bhailog: After giving you the exclusive scoop on MiG-35 last week (see MRCA pages 23, 24), here is another exclusive scoop on Arjun.. See how quickly the MRCA argument has changed since last week – all the while it was Rafale, then EF, then Gripen, and F - solah/attara thrown into the mix whenev...
- 11 Mar 2010 04:29
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1371045
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/india-plans-retreat-from-afghanistan-after-attacks/111336-3.html?from=tn If the above news is true, then it is sad indeed. I hope at least now the external affairs ministry and others wakes up and realizes that soft power is useless by itself. The interesting thing is tha...
- 21 Feb 2010 08:05
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1371045
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
Vir Sanghvi supports covert operation http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/ArticleImage.aspx?article=21_02_2010_014_002&mode=1 Thanks for this link abhishek! I am glad to know that there is finally someone who can write a pro cover action article in the main stream media (who is not an ex-intel off...
- 21 Feb 2010 07:44
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: The Trash Thread in the Trash Can (Use 4545 to Merge Posts)
- Replies: 1207
- Views: 204619
Re: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector
With its PSUs and OFB's India never fostered a military industrial complex and we see the results or lack there of. There is no synergy between the users, the makers, and the designers in India for we have an all powerful nexus of bureaucrats with the politicians overseeing all this. I had to write...
- 21 Feb 2010 06:32
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1371045
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
Nothing is surprising. They are only capturing the faction of Taliban that is not loyal to them anymore. They will destroy them and restore them so they can retain their full control over them once again. I agree that pak is trying to gain control over them back. At the same time, I don't think the...
- 21 Feb 2010 05:05
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1371045
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100219/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan Another major blow to the Taliban. This time a senior member of the Haqqani network. Looks like Pakistan is serious about helping US eliminate some of the key taliban figures, since this is the second major blow after the arrest of the Bar...
- 21 Feb 2010 03:19
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1371045
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/20 ... 00315.HTML
It appears like the South Koreans have caught one of David Headley types. If true, then great police work on their part.
It appears like the South Koreans have caught one of David Headley types. If true, then great police work on their part.
- 21 Feb 2010 03:11
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1371045
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
Is this a joint venture between Ind and Afg? I seriously doubt, for the reason that most of the US top administration does not like India exerting any influence in Af due to Pak being sensitive about it. While there are a lot of independent US analysts who write India should take active participati...
- 20 Feb 2010 05:48
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 1371045
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
Have you guys seen this - from August 2009 http://www.scribd.com/doc/19293977/Destabilization-Of-Pakistan Ex-ISI chief says purpose of new Afghan agency RAMA is to destabilize Pakistan I would not expect anything better from Hamid Gul. He is among the school of people in pak who believes that RAW i...