Bharat Rakshak

anjan

How can you write something as racist and appalling as that?? Do you not have any shame? I have no idea whether the original intent was racist but if you see the video and the dude jumping up and down, it's hard not to make that comparison. [youtube]brZez-V1120#t=145[/youtube] If Indians had been c...

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@Anjan ^^^: Sorry, I should not have responded to your post. We clearly see things very differently. That's quite okay although personally I don't like forums to be echo chambers. To each his own. I suspect that to some extent Americans and Indian-Americans can't reconcile the United States as a co...

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@Anjan: ^^^ Will the US risk a war for anyone else? They will if they have a security arrangement: Japan, SOKO etc. I entirely doubt it. The US population is war weary, They don't want to get into an air war in Syria with their international credibility fully on the line, you think they'll get into...

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As I continue to hear, the US has clearly articulated what it wants from a SP: closer defense ties, coordination on climate change, closer India/US/AUS/Japan naval interoperability, counter-terrorism related information exchange and the like. The Indian side has demurred or been unable to deliver a...

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Please correct me if the following perception is incorrect: until about 80s 90s, Lt.Col were usually the battalion commanders and Majors at second in command. Nowadays in many news reports, it is mentioned that a Col. is commanding the regiment and 2IC is a Lt.Col. Has there been some change in the...

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This statement will leave a lot of us confused. Could you explain the correlation? The classical employment of Paratroopers is to hold objectives till linkup with a thrust by regular forces. Without it Paradrops will be contained and eliminated by the enemy once surprise is overcome. Generally obje...

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I understand the general enthusiasm for SF but how are they supposed to be employed in the Indian context? What would an Army do with 1 battalion of Paras? Or are they meant to be employed only for recce/sabotage tasks in which case an Army has no access to regular Para? Eastern command with little/...

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Sad news for 16 Cav still recouping from the mess last year. Rumor regarding kit and training is that this was SSG.

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And this fellow G. Parthasarathy was supposed to be a "senior diplomat"! Gawd help us. Has he read even a standard book like Rajiv Malhotra's "Breaking India"? Parthasarathy is by far one of the very best the foreign service has produced. A former HC to Pakistan and an emergency...

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One question. Why are IA soldiers not carrying side arms in border areas so close to the TSP? Side arms are only ever used by officers and maybe certain weapon/vehicle crews like helo pilots etc. No one should need to be armed inside the Mess. This was a goof up in security of the base. Given its J...

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Take it easy. S.TN is a moniker for the tendency that wants to keep Bharat as a subject of Abrahamic world-view. It is like the word "caste". People hate the word "caste" but use it in every aspect of their life. Let's see how far this moniker thing goes if Razakars starts getti...

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Uma Lenin is definitely from lemuria or south TN so RamaY can be given a free pass. :P Seriously? This is how low this forum has fallen? When I objected to people using "south TN" earlier I was told by an assorted association of mutual back-patters that this was supposed to poke fun at Th...

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‘PMO to blame for soldier deaths’ Senior commanders in the India-Pakistan battlefield say that the rules of engagement enforced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are the cause of the multiplying number of deaths of Indian soldiers at the hands of the Pakistan army. According to them, present Chief o...

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^This guy can call others names, but when called out to be liar, he goes berserk. He insists on peddling old data as current and quoting Indian politicians, who are at best misinformed and at worst corrupt (or representing something grossly corrupt like the UPA). His menagerie of quotes come from v...

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Or equivalently, people who have looked outside, need to justify that looking out by newly recognizing grievances. I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. Fine, let's assume there is zero "real" reason for a grievance. So what? If a significantly large chunk of population(the dis...

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How could they yield to some starving Andhras? They didn't. They yielded to widespread rioting and breakdown of civil order over a large part of the province. I can't see any good reason to not let large groups of people go off and form their own states and chart their own destinies as long as with...

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So each of them are just doing their number crunching for votes and deciding what to support. :eek: If democratic governance is about channeling the people's voice, why is this wrong or cause for surprise? If anything this is the system actually working for once. The alternative is that parties sho...

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The day the IA acts on its own without clear political directives is the day India turns into a Pakistan. I cannot imagine anyone saying otherwise. No need to imagine. That's what's being directly suggested here. Edit: Actually it goes further. It's been suggested through the few threads following ...

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And how do you propose the Army open a front in another sector? Especailly knowing that there is no political will. You make sure what is ours stays ours. You dont come up with excuses of lack of political will etc. A leader fights with what he has and doesn't come up with excuses. The LOAC is 4000...

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Life in Army is always tough Meaningless turn of phrase used to casually throw away the lives of others. At least we could have protected our land and pride What's not been protected? If the standard is that no land can be lost for any length of time then it is militarily naive. No army not even th...

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It is a sad day when a senior member of BRF makes such posts. It is sad. It's more tragic when practically no one seems to understand either the terrain in these places or the weather. Or what command entail. Or risk taking in any context. Every CO at Kargil with certainty put up the possibility of...

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In India they would some times just fake the information to ease the pressure or come out as good cop cracked the case within x hours , if these people are that good and know the sleeper cell involved , the person involved etc within 24 hours why couldnt they stop it in first place. Intelligence at...

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I think only our Navy has had any charter/ambitions of being a strategic power projecting service. Only the navy can truly project power. This is true of every country. Even the US with bases everywhere(and thus the potential to use the airforce) really uses it's navy for power projection. India's ...

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That is a mis characterization of the Congress, which traditionally was a "broad tent" org, which had all shades of opinion in it. Nutters like Diggy and Doofus Aiyer are a product of the 70s perversion of the Congress and lets face it, the failure of AB Vajpayee to win a second term (lar...

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So, by default UPA is gonna be back. The only hope is that they are back without Didi/Commies and other nuisances and they have the sense to kick out the NAC nutcases and turn back to sensible economics and politics and can politicos and total failures like Diggy baba (his record, basically of leav...

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You tell me regarding what you think. Reaching out to middle with respect to even trying to get 0.00001% Muslim vote for Modi is a not starter. In fact it is non starter for BJP. By just making his style of general statements "Secularism = India first" are brilliant and has no overtones f...

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Then the other side filling the ballots win by default. Ultimately in a democracy you vote for the side you dislike the least. Not voting is always and without exception the worst option in our system. OTOH if people will only vote if the candidate shares the exact same world view it goes a long wa...

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May I ask which candidate is on the other side of the fence for you? none, not voting is on the other side Then the other side filling the ballots win by default. Ultimately in a democracy you vote for the side you dislike the least. Not voting is always and without exception the worst option in ou...

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I fail to understand the significance of such references even for electoral purposes, he wont gain a single vote from the other side because of this, but he has plenty to lose ( in me i see a die-hard modi fan becoming a fence sitter after the speech ). May I ask which candidate is on the other sid...

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And that said referenced person called another group of literate (and hopefully educated) persons of a particular community seeking entitlements as mofos. If you do not believe or trust me, please go check it out, it is 3-4 pages back. I believe you. I still don't get how attributing his opinions t...

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S.TN is the BR term (ArmenT can add it to BR dictionary if he wants) for the regions/groups/ideologies that DEMAND special entitlements beyond other regions/groups/ideologies that humbly claim Bharatiyaness unconditionally. I called certain sections of T-vadis Pakis for making similar demands. It's...

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Slowly but surely S.TN will be a lonely place :P While I understand you are referring to one poster specifically it is still distracting, demeaning and somewhat alienating to keep having a go at one region. In the AP history thread there are innumerable CTs running the gamut. Would you like referen...

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Seriously it is Wharton's loss and problem; also it has all the rights to pick and chose its speakers. Insult to India, Modi ityadi are stretching things to the level of being ludicrous. It is no insult but it is the pointer to a serious problem when Indians use foreigners to lend legitimacy to wha...

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WRT Kundankulam the church very much made a mistake by stepping into a secular issue and I said so at the time. They should not do that. And I have made my displeasure known in my tiny way and the church has visibly apologized and pulled back. Are there abuses still, yes. But the community by and l...

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RSS hmm... Well for one they wish to expunge the constitution of india. For two they are an explicitly communal organization. There nothing quite so openly communal yet politically powerful on the other side despite claims to the contrary. I have a question. What is your opinion on the organizing r...

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OT: Why has nobody thought of this before? heard it here first: We need to privatize armed forces. I am sure companies like Reliance can protect the borders in a timely, cost effective and reliable manner :eek: :twisted: I'm sure this was meant to be some kind of stinging rebuke to the forces. Stil...

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there are limits to the analogy examples Well you saw in Jaffna Univ - yeah both Sikh LI and SF were inserted what was the difference? one got torn to pieces the other held (and almost got their target) out till rescus force arrived That's an odd lesson to take away from it. The Paras landed nearly...

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hopefully there are not too many like him :) we disagree on it - too bad Contextually in your original comments you were referring to the Armoured Corps as a whole. So what were you talking about? If you're saying tasking shouldn't be changed it's a bit like saying RR personnel shouldn't go elsewhe...

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Surya wrote: it does require a certain type of trained men (or as my IAF friends say - crazed buggers) to make that attempt to hold a bridge deep behind enemy lines. Please see above. Regular battalions can and will be used for holding bridge X till linkup. you are taking just one example of a task...

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SF are by nature one way travel and expected to be self sufficient with planned extraction which never happens as planned It's not even like this description applies only to SF. Regular infantry batt. train for and are expected to be used for things like heliborne insertion. it does require a certa...

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