Bharat Rakshak

Indian Ocean, pirates, international waters: Where the hell is the US Navy? http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/03/19/indian_ocean_pirates_international_waters_where_the_hell_is_the_us_navy Herb Carmen's posts talk about international will, highlight EU NAVFOR and NATO -- and say almost next ...

Interesting... but no one seems to be discussing the USSR experience in WW2 that much, when women formed a sizeable chunk of the Red Army's combat forces and performed admirably. Granted, it was a more desperate time for the USSR but just wanted to get a discussion started with this counter view as ...

As to what to do with the billions saved, how about getting more Nuclear Powered Subs, developing more SLBMs, more ICBMs to counter China, World Class Drone aircraft, mechanizing a larger percentage of our armed forces, paying our soldiers better, ensuring that the IAF has more than the necessary n...

The assumption all posters are making (and I repeat I am trying challenge this) is that we will need armoured forces to make an armoured thrust into Pakistan. What do we hope to achieve by this? Occupy all of Pakistan? Dismantle terrorist networks? I would have thought that objectives in a war deter...

I don't get it, fighting with tanks is unrealistic because of nuclear umbrella but "World Class Drone aircraft, mechanizing a larger percentage of our armed forces {which means more tanks + APC basically} , ......., ensuring that the IAF has more than the necessary number of squadrons of moder...

"i think an armored thrust will, these days, be met with tactical nukes" This is a huge presumption that will put an army into inertia. This way you can defend but never be on offensive.. Now I do understand why our ancestors never attached their enemies in foreign lands. They made such p...

you still haven't answered the original question, which scenario do you envisage ? Once we figure there isn't a scenario where we'll need tanks in the desert or anywhere , we can then see what possible scenarios will arise and invest appropriately. that is the very point isn't it ? :lol: as of now ...

I don't know either, and I am not a seer. :D But, none of us are, but the least one can hope are that the people making decisions are thinking along these lines, and preparing for likely events and not just fixated on fighting the last war a little better. The point you're making hinges on the obso...

fine, I get it, you think tanks are obsolete, what's the alternative ? as for the other point, unlike you most people aren't half as certain that MAD scenario is at work in the Indo-Pak context, kargil showed that quite plainly according to some. by your logic we shouldn't invest in anything other ...

And are there realistic chances of that happening under the threat of thermonuclear annihilation? I will be honest, I don't know, I'm not a seer. since you say know the answer why don't you tell us ? :) I don't know either, and I am not a seer. :D But, none of us are, but the least one can hope are...

kargil was a very limited border conflict that too in a mountainous area. no need to add virtually, our tanks played no part in kargil. arguably, neither did the navy submarine fleet and 75% of the IAF fighter fleet. we should disband all of it ? Our tank formations played virtually no active comba...

Agree that armoured vehicles may not always be suited to urban warfare. Some are (Merkava perhaps) and some are not (as the Russians found out in Grozny), but given the obsession with which tank performs better in the desert, what desert war scenario are we looking at here? And are there realistic c...

Fascinating thread... but are heavily armoured vehicles (or at least large formations of heavily armoured vehicles) relevant anymore in the Indian context? Forgive me if I am completely mistaken, but it seems as if our generals and planners are still trying fight the '65 and '71 wars again. Surely ...

The problem is that there is no serious check on the Govt. litigating all the way to the Supreme Court even for petty matters. Is the SC obliged to hear all matters brought before it? More or less... without turning an Indian army thread into a Supreme Court appeals class, a few points abt SC litig...

High time the SC came out with such observations. Completely expected of Justice Katju as well :D. As Panel Advocates appearing for the Govt. in the Supreme Court, we see far too many cases of the Govt. fighting with ex-servicemen over paltry amounts and petty matters and taking appeals all the way ...

Fascinating thread... but are heavily armoured vehicles (or at least large formations of heavily armoured vehicles) relevant anymore in the Indian context? Forgive me if I am completely mistaken, but it seems as if our generals and planners are still trying fight the '65 and '71 wars again. Surely 3...