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- 12 Apr 2018 22:39
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Aerospace Discussion - Jan 2018
- Replies: 2811
- Views: 1685557
Re: International Aerospace Discussion - Jan 2018
https://warisboring.com/american-warpla ... m-the-sky/
- 12 Apr 2018 22:37
- Forum: Military Expositions Archive
- Topic: DefExpo 2018 Chennai
- Replies: 335
- Views: 129228
Re: DefExpo 2018 Chennai
Beleive it or not - I have images on HDD from Defexpo 2001 in Dilli. After those initial shows interest simply faded out.
Even Goa was only fair to middling in the attention it received. But Chennai is stellar.
Even Goa was only fair to middling in the attention it received. But Chennai is stellar.
- 12 Apr 2018 22:03
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Artillery: News & Discussion
- Replies: 4811
- Views: 1362821
Re: Artillery Discussion Thread
Given our requirement in mountains, I would very curious to know how well the truck can travel through the gradients with 7-9 ton on it's back, without flipping over. This could be added to BR's "engineering from 2D images" section as an appendix to our planned "aerodynamics from 2D ...
- 12 Apr 2018 20:28
- Forum: Military Expositions Archive
- Topic: DefExpo 2018 Chennai
- Replies: 335
- Views: 129228
Re: DefExpo 2018 Chennai
Man - all this sounds more interesting than the last 3 Aero India shows..
- 12 Apr 2018 07:55
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Have you read 'The Blood Telegram"? No, Sir. Could you please elaborate? Gautam PS. Looked it up in Google Chacha. I do remember the telegram, but forgot the name of Archer Blood. Old age. Thanks Boss for reminding. GS I meant the book by that name. That book and Jagan's book on the 1965 war s...
- 12 Apr 2018 07:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
^^^ Basic anatomy, human relationships are supposedly very basic and one will have words in the native language; while technology like "agriculture" or "cellular phones" will give rise to loan words. On the other hand, maybe Indians will morph into all saying "Daddy" i...
- 11 Apr 2018 22:33
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
These are all language-gene hypotheses that need to be recognized as such. When you dig into proto languages you find that they all go a long way in basic anatomy and human relationships. Hand, foot, mother brother etc. But if languages spread with agriculture we need to see common words for rice, w...
- 11 Apr 2018 20:15
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
I have made a "mala" aka thread of about 7-8 Tweets about PIE and IE. If you have the time and inclination please read
https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/984077230698414080
https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/984077230698414080
- 11 Apr 2018 19:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
PIE of 3000 BC lexicon was made up from daughter languages found in 20th century. If a language was included in making the lexicon, a a word will appear because PIE is a "circular construct" wherein daughter language words are used to create PIE after which PIE is said to be mother of the ...
- 11 Apr 2018 18:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Murugan wrote:
Morontimer wheeler had a wild imagination of Aryan Invasion looking at 10-12 skeletons,.
- 11 Apr 2018 09:23
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
https://indo-european.eu/2017/09/marija-gimbutas-and-the-expansion-of-the-kurgan-people-based-on-tumulus-building-cultures/ According to Gimbutas, the “Kurgan people” are evidenced by single graves in deep shafts, often in wooden chests (coffins) or stone cists marked by low earth or stone barrows; ...
- 11 Apr 2018 08:36
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
- Replies: 4649
- Views: 1839173
Re: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
New video
Chinese dominance over the Spratly Islands - a warning for India
https://youtu.be/Jiuoo1Ggb-U
Chinese dominance over the Spratly Islands - a warning for India
https://youtu.be/Jiuoo1Ggb-U
- 11 Apr 2018 08:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
New video
Chinese dominance over the Spratly Islands - a warning for India
https://youtu.be/Jiuoo1Ggb-U
Chinese dominance over the Spratly Islands - a warning for India
https://youtu.be/Jiuoo1Ggb-U
- 11 Apr 2018 06:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Let me ask all you wise people here a simple question. I just wonder why so few are asking this question. Let us say the "Kurgan" model of language spread is right. A Kurgan is a type of grave. What is the connection between Kurgan and India? There are no Kurgans in India. (*- see footnote...
- 11 Apr 2018 06:29
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
I'm dubious that Rakhigarhi aDNA will ever be published - one would imagine if it existed, there would be great urgency to publish it, but the above means this pre-print will be falsified if Rakhigarhi aDNA has anything more than Iran_N + AASI, it doesn't matter what that extra is. My sort-of-unjus...
- 10 Apr 2018 19:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
OK I gone and dun it https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/983712522787143680 Sorry to say this - maybe this was unintended, but excluding Bengali speakers sounds eerily like what a Briton called L. Huxley said about "Bengalees" to exclude them from the "pure Aryan language speakers&qu...
- 10 Apr 2018 19:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
If languages do correlate with genes, and we believe in the antiquity of Sanskrit, then the solution has to be that it was the language of peoples on the AASI-Iran Chalcolithic cline, and entered the Steppe by the Chalcolithic Iranian ancestry of Steppe_EMBA. Vagheesh asked me before everything des...
- 10 Apr 2018 16:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
The sobering arithmetic of a two-front war Read the whole thing and see how superficial the analysis is without factoring terrain and objectives or suitability of assets for the terrain or its generational age or India's induction of MBRL's in lieu of artillery or India's own missile forces. Given ...
- 10 Apr 2018 10:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Genetics does not code for langauge. So how do genetics researchers assert that they have found the origin of a language? They have not. They depend on linguists who made up non existent PIE and placed that non existent PIE in Steppe where no known language was spoken in that era. Unprovable geograp...
- 10 Apr 2018 10:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Shiv, Did you read this: https://twitter.com/anupampom/status/982284507293331456 No. Can't understand it.. In any case he fails on the same count. How do you connect genetics with language? Some one ask him and gradually the "evidence" starts falling apart.. Have you seen this? https://tw...
- 10 Apr 2018 10:24
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
If I remember correctly in 1971 war, FM Manekshaw requested permission of the PM to start assembling a group of what he called "Badmash" to go into East Pak and start causing mayhem . He requested funding for this venture. But Mrs. Gandhi shot down this proposal and instead decided to rel...
- 10 Apr 2018 10:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
^^shiv sir, given the slack that has percolated the babudom, such fear mongering might actually help. Otherwise the sleeping dogs would have been sleeping forever. The problem is that we (lay-people) assume that babudom do not know. In fact babudom do know and if you read books by retired babu log ...
- 09 Apr 2018 22:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
@Shiv: Please give BC some slack, he is in the propagation business. Very few from the civilian world who track these issues. Yes, he can get boring, alarmist, repetitive but feel we need more of them, so that policymakers can hear these noises. At this time they are DEAF! Shaurya giving people sla...
- 09 Apr 2018 22:12
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Andrew J Phelan @ajphelo · Apr 4 Welcome to China’s west coast Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney Adding another pearl to China's "string of pearls"? Kyaukpyu, located along the Bay of Bengal coast, is of major strategic and economic value for China, which, under a deal with Myanmar, will own 70...
- 09 Apr 2018 22:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
It's there in my post. They will try and squeeze more from India.kit wrote:Agree, so what could be the reason for refusing the helos? .. to please the Chinese who are offering more moolah / honey ??shiv wrote:
- 09 Apr 2018 14:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
My suspicion is that Maldivians are hardly a "loyal and dharmic" bunch who will get all upset and chaddi-knotted and say "Cheenis are our friends and we only want them". Even the most incompetent bum with a fractional criminal mind - will understand that this is the time to look...
- 09 Apr 2018 11:15
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
What is the first picture that comes to mind about Nepal? How do you supply electricity economically to a hamlet of 25 houses in a hilly area where the cost to pull such a line will run in crores? Except for the Terai region and urban clusters how will it work? It is the same problem faced by India...
- 09 Apr 2018 10:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Here is somethig to chew on. Vagheesh said that Swat Indus Periphery (IP) had 20% Steppe MLBA. Lines 317-415 in his paper state that minimum IP in ASI=39% and Max IP in ANI=72% If I arbitrarily assign 50% Indus Periphery ancestry to all Indians who are a mix of ASI and ANI of differing proportions t...
- 09 Apr 2018 09:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
My suspicion is that Maldivians are hardly a "loyal and dharmic" bunch who will get all upset and chaddi-knotted and say "Cheenis are our friends and we only want them". Even the most incompetent bum with a fractional criminal mind - will understand that this is the time to look ...
- 09 Apr 2018 08:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1815383
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
The man has gone bonkers.fanne wrote:Brahma Chellney Sir,
With all due respect. This is very superficial analysis (unbecoming of your stature...).
- 08 Apr 2018 18:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
^^The whole thing was in Kannada. Not much new for us..
- 08 Apr 2018 07:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Archaeological and anthropological studies on the Harappan cemetery of Rakhigarhi, India "Rakhigarhi cemetery is representative of the Mature Harappan period, date-estimated to 2,500–2,000 BCE" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192299 Many thanks for postin...
- 07 Apr 2018 22:50
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
- Replies: 3909
- Views: 1477906
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
Up until the 1980s, rockets were quite prevalent on fixed wing aircrafts. Then once MANPADS came about rockets started losing their wide usage. Modern tactics favor stand-off weapons. Statistics about dumb bombs to smart bomb ratios in the gulf wars and 2 day old news of the Chinese starting a 180d...
- 07 Apr 2018 22:34
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3546
- Views: 961837
Re: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread - August 9, 2014
Would some admin like to look at where this thread is going? Post 1:Pakis will buy T-90 - Russian news source about that impoverished country Post 2: Aha - Indian army will want Armata Post3: But never Arjun To me this is the sort of hahahahahahahaha! talk that a bunch of people may have during a bo...
- 07 Apr 2018 19:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Prof SN Balagangadhara (Balu) speaking at Mythic society, Nrupathunga road BLR - 10-30 AM tomorrow (Sunday 8 Apr). Try and be there to listen to this great mind.
- 06 Apr 2018 18:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Maldives Civil-Military Issues
- Replies: 1130
- Views: 266266
Re: Maldives Civil-Military Issues
^^
Media control of ostensibly intelligent minds is as bad. See the reactions on the forum without reading the details. We are the same people, media and us.
Media control of ostensibly intelligent minds is as bad. See the reactions on the forum without reading the details. We are the same people, media and us.
- 06 Apr 2018 08:49
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
- Replies: 3909
- Views: 1477906
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
We could collaborate to write a little book on "Aerodynamics from still 2D images"
- 06 Apr 2018 08:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
In fact I recall reading a few months ago (using my 2 Sansk dictionaries) that Upastha is penis. I had forgotten about that - but in any case I would not have "edited" Jatindra Mohan Chaterji's link. That would have been a mistake.
The Kaccha-Kaksha is a genuine error.
The Kaccha-Kaksha is a genuine error.
- 06 Apr 2018 08:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Doctor, In your chhanda upasTHA article it should be भृगुकच्छ bhrigukchchha not kaksha for bharuch. Bharuch was an important ancient port. Many wars were fought to control bharuch. Satavahana fought with kshatraps over the control of the port. Trade with romans used to take place.. *** I believe it...
- 06 Apr 2018 06:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1166186
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
The Zend Avesta cult followers are Witzel rats. It was his school that postulates ancient Iranians as Aryans. This is followed by MToids. When western scholars refer to the Roman empire they never mention France or Spain or Italy separately as if those countries existed. In the case of India - from...