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by schinnas
19 Jun 2020 17:04
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

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by schinnas
19 Jun 2020 13:04
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

In case of armed conflict, there is no point in pushing Cheen back to April 2020 status quo given their salami slicing and large scale occupation of Indian territory since 1950s. Our objectives should serve a long term strategic purpose that is worth the sacrifice of precious lives and immense risk ...
by schinnas
19 Jun 2020 12:50
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Thankfully we have strategists like Brahma Challaney who keeps everyone honest. He was right in calling out the mistake of current army chief who said there is no Chinese incursion into Indian territory on May 14th, which is a very bad statement to make which will not help us in any talks.Our Army c...
by schinnas
19 Jun 2020 08:21
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Ramana sir, all BRFers will be happy to contribute to Army martyr welfare fund regardless of their opinion. Speaking for myself, though I have never doubted GoI and Army, I didn't realize revenge was already taken and the landslide excuse was to give a face saving way out to the enemy. Biggest lesso...
by schinnas
19 Jun 2020 08:01
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Whenever the Chinese seem magnanimous, it means they are hiding losses / biding time / fearful of reprisal. For PM Modi to make a strong and unambiguous public statement the likes of which he made after Pulwama is not done as empty chest thumping. Our bravehearts should have done a ferocious job in ...
by schinnas
18 Jun 2020 21:37
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Indian retaliation is going to surprise Cheen and force them to retreat in shame. But it won't be immediate.
by schinnas
18 Jun 2020 20:38
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

India has an A team now. A CDS to ensure coordination between forces, best NSA ever, a PM with will of steel and who can keep calm on the storm While there may be some gaps in procurement, several improvements made in the past 4+ years to substantially improve logistics, border infra, ammo stock, se...
by schinnas
18 Jun 2020 20:29
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

First thing would be to take our key bridges and tunnels of Chinese supply routes and make their forces sitting ducks. But kill only those needed to demonstrate punishment. The rest should be forced to surrender and surrendered officers kept as shields to prevent missile strikes on army installation...
by schinnas
18 Jun 2020 19:41
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Chinese plans should have been put in action even before covid. They would want to build permanant winter proof structures on occupied areas during summer. Tactical improvements to the plan to target CO, barbarism would have been improvisations. But their larger strategic objective is large scale la...
by schinnas
18 Jun 2020 18:21
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Regarding why our troops didn't use the guns to fire- While they carry guns, it's on the back with magazine removed. It will take a minute to get it operational. When sudden fist tight happens and a group is surrounded and numerically overwhelmed, it's not practical to take out weapons. Besides, wit...
by schinnas
18 Jun 2020 16:31
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

So far the chatter from journalists connected (such as Iyer, ShivaAroor) and corroborated by official govt sources is that: 1. Cheen conducted a barbaric preplanned killing of Indian soldiers including knowingly attacking and killing our CO. 2. They might have gotten away with it, but Divine Grace w...
by schinnas
18 Jun 2020 13:20
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2182707

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

The BJP CM acted arrogantly and pushed the ally party out. To run a coalition government, some sort of broadminded leadership is required. BJP Manipur brought this on themselves.
by schinnas
17 Jun 2020 23:21
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

One thing is clear. In the event of war, India will be assured of uninterrupted supply of precision ammo, spare parts and intel from multiple countries who would want Cheen to be taught a lesson.

While we wont get the arms for free, favorable credit terms could be envisaged.
by schinnas
17 Jun 2020 23:10
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

nam wrote:
schinnas wrote:
Is there a site or video with the full English transcript of this?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eat7TKMUMAE ... name=large
Thank you, Nam ji.
by schinnas
17 Jun 2020 16:42
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

shuuro wrote:PM makes a statement on India china clash

https://youtu.be/u2nKo05h-oo
Is there a site or video with the full English transcript of this?
by schinnas
17 Jun 2020 15:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Ladakh Union Territory- 2019
Replies: 129
Views: 54553

Re: Ladakh Union Territory- 2019

Our army has several means of assessing the casualties on enemy side - radio chatter intercepts, drone, spy plane and satellite imagery of ambulances, stretches and helicopter evacuations to hospitals, etc. Reports of US intelligence estimating 35 dead + 43 total casualties is consistent with this n...
by schinnas
17 Jun 2020 15:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Ladakh Union Territory- 2019
Replies: 129
Views: 54553

Re: Ladakh Union Territory- 2019

43 PLA casualties is not from any official GOI source, let's not treat this as a fact, we don't know what their losses are. 45 PLA casualties is now from official GoI source Prasar Bharti. https://twitter.com/PBNS_India/status/1273144011507806209 Prasar Bharati News Services @PBNS_India · 2h Army S...
by schinnas
17 Jun 2020 13:59
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

We must throw the BDCA into the dust-bin. We don't need any CBMs hereafte. If anyone remembers, it was forced down our throat by Xi when Li Keqiang came calling on his first visit. They insisted on signing it immediately. The BDCA itself was a ruse to stop our infrastructure activities on our side....
by schinnas
17 Jun 2020 13:51
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

V_Raman wrote:Corroborating what shyamd said - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/1 ... ina-322836
This should have happened with few days of prior planning and not as a result of what happened day before yesterday evening.
by schinnas
17 Jun 2020 08:14
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

At present there is no official confirmation or video proof of enemy casualties. Until then, we dont know the exact number but let us hope it is 2X or more of ours. That said, until enemy CO is still safe, revenge hasn't happened. Equally important is to push them back from their ill conceived plan ...
by schinnas
17 Jun 2020 07:33
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Also would like to point out how, the day started with 3 IA casualties (zero Chinese) and ended with 20 IA & 40+ Chinese casualties. While people here were demanding press briefings and statements to Parliament, IA & GOI was busy making the facts on the ground more favorable to Indian inter...
by schinnas
16 Jun 2020 20:07
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

No point speculating. The reports vary from 50 Cheen's killed to few Indian officers held captive. If indeed Indian officers are held captive it is highly likely that many Chinese have have died or injured that what has come out. I fully expect that our forces inflicted more casualties to the enemy....
by schinnas
16 Jun 2020 14:48
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

This is a premeditated attack on a Colonel after a JCO punched a Chinese Colonel in Sikkim two months back. They had planned the attack with iron rods, and batons with nails and stones. We need to take out two of their officers.
by schinnas
16 Jun 2020 07:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Replies: 6236
Views: 1796093

Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)

Both can be true. Bulk of their covid deaths are in Wuhan which is where fudging happened. Rest of China was relatively less impacted. Those who buy foreign maal in China are the upper middle class walas. They are among the least impacted with big stimulus money floating around and doing bargain hun...
by schinnas
14 Jun 2020 13:07
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Lets take a step back and think this through. Though the border is very long between India and Cheen, there are a few natural passes or locations that offer tactical advantage or provide strategic value and makes it easy for logistics. Chinese have encroached into 4 of such locations in 3 areas of L...
by schinnas
14 Jun 2020 00:04
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2182707

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Sad fact is the BJP leader Menaka Gandhi and Lt Gov Kiran Bedi, another BJP appointee are responsible for not doing due diligence.
by schinnas
11 Jun 2020 22:00
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

India should drag Cheen into a fight now and give it a solid thrashing, along with getting back strategic areas in Ladakh and Chambi valley. If any captured cheeni soldiers desert, have them join BRO and complete all pending border roads and widen existing roads. If and when conflict breaks out, Ind...
by schinnas
11 Jun 2020 14:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252748

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

I have a feeling that Balochi freedom fighters will take panga woh the notion of building ML-1 from the looted Balochi wealth and to perpetuate the subjugation of Balochistan. The security costs for this project would be enormous.
by schinnas
08 Jun 2020 01:33
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Watching their propoganda video with soldiers sitting with helmets and rifles inside a plane or bus was so hilarious. All this talk about 4x bigger economy and larger airforce means nothing in the unforgiving Himalayas. Within couple of days of war, they will lose their key highways and their chocol...
by schinnas
08 Jun 2020 00:58
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

Isn't there an ITBP camp at the base of finger 4? How can they build bunker between finger 3 and 4? How accurate if Print.in?
by schinnas
07 Jun 2020 16:32
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

There is option C as well and it would bey choice. Indulge in reverse salami slicing of key strategic territories every year in Ladakh or Chambi valley or Arunachal border. Our intrusions and salami slicing should be 2x of what they are doing. These are the territories that anyways belong to us such...
by schinnas
07 Jun 2020 15:04
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1606783

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020

The very fact that some forum members panick at the very mention of taking the war to Chinese theatre and reversing their illegal occupation of Tibet indicates the defeatist mindset we have developed over the years. If one takes out the nuclear equation, India with its MSC, SSB and ITBP is more than...
by schinnas
07 Jun 2020 14:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8808
Views: 2486595

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Hindus are NOT right wing. The very definition of Hindu is progressive. BJP supporters would do well to recognise that the word Hindu nationalist as understood by Western media is that of a regressive and ultra conservative one. They can do either two things - 1. educate the rest of the world that n...
by schinnas
07 Jun 2020 13:48
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2182707

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Prasanna Viswanathan@prasannavishy·12h Not Only In Ladakh, China Is Needling India In Myanmar As Well Through Its Proxy Rebel Groups There https://swarajyamag.com/world/not-only-in-ladakh-china-is-needling-india-in-myanmar-as-well-through-its-proxy-rebel-groups-there via @swarajyamag Can easily be ...
by schinnas
03 Jun 2020 16:55
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India Border Watch: Security and Operations
Replies: 4479
Views: 1236029

Re: India Border Watch: Security and Operations

+108. I was surprised to see not only the BIF funded wire.in article posted here but posters taking it seriously in BRF!
by schinnas
03 Jun 2020 09:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 8808
Views: 2486595

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

There are three angles to this: 1. India angle: I was very clear that placing India on CPC would not have happened without US state dept or whitehouse nod. With eradication of NGOs and proliferation of SM that made US cultivation of Indian press redundant, US was losing leverage over India. Is this ...
by schinnas
27 May 2020 16:34
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2182707

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

do the nepalese PM and his ministers know what they are doing to India or are they operating in complete isolation. After Souring Relations Through Border Dispute, Nepal Seeks Access To Indian Palm Oil, Tea Markets Nepal PM and ministers seem to be bumbling idiots and/or believe in taking India for...
by schinnas
26 May 2020 18:59
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India Border Watch: Security and Operations
Replies: 4479
Views: 1236029

Re: India Border Watch: Security and Operations

I wonder if the indian soldiers who have scuffled with the chinese have been screened for Covid. wont be surprised if chinese purposely engineer a melee between infected patients in fatigues and our frontline troops Well two can play the game and we have enough supply of CRPF from Maharastra but it...
by schinnas
21 May 2020 18:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2831478

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Test per million is an utterly meaningless metric used by ignorant reporters who do not understand ABC of statistics. Since only targeted testing is done, the key metric to watch out for is tests per positive cases. This is the metric (also called as test positivity rate) used by experts all over th...
by schinnas
21 May 2020 07:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
Replies: 7956
Views: 2252748

Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch

SAAB and Embraer are probably in financial dire straights. We should buy them out, do ToT and move manufacturing to India.