Bharat Rakshak

I'll bump this up with another addition since it's relevant to this topic: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...how?msid=283543 excerpt: A year after its ignominious termination, the true story of Operation Parakram can now be told. The Indian threat of war was an empty boast, the Indian armed forc...

Since there seems to be a dearth of information on Operation Parakram, I thought I'd start a thread where info can be collected. This is something I haven't seen discussed in detail on BR before. I'm interested not so much in whether or not Op. Parakram was a strategic failure, but rather, the milit...

A question for the "nooklar" experts: if you buy a batch of nuclear warheads from some other country, how long can the weapons be kept functional? What is the "shelf-life" of a typical fission-based warhead? Is it really possible for Saudi Arabia to just "acquire" a nuc...

Originally posted by Arun_Gupta: Of course, one POV is that we misperceive, and Musharraf is indeed serving US interests. In one unexpected sentence, illumination! :eek: There you have it gentlemen. Thank Arun for putting the entire puzzle together for you, in one startling sentence. I said this be...

Operation Parakram death toll 1,874
http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/may/01/01052003ap.htm#A7