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by habal
23 Jun 2020 11:44
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

Along with jawans posted at Ladakh, can the Indian MoD defence procurement babus be also posted in ladakh and pangong etc and be forced to indulge in one bout of wrestling and club fighting and rock throwing. Can also be done on rotational basis. this may well turn out to be win-win solution from th...
by habal
23 Jun 2020 10:41
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

I don't know why I have this lingering feeling all Indian politicians are just about the comission. What do you make of this newsclip, Rajnath goes to Moscow and will discuss speeding up S400s, Kilo submarines and T90 tanks on the agenda T90 tanks on the agenda, in this day & age still India nee...
by habal
22 Jun 2020 15:30
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
Replies: 5322
Views: 1834041

Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016

they may be into changing the chinese chips and other chinese parts for India. Think along those lines.
by habal
22 Jun 2020 12:51
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

they are not conditioned into believing anything. The Han Chinese believed they were superior to the primitive, barbarian, smelly northern mongol hordes before being attacked and overwhelmed by the mongols who until then were believed to be medieval, violent & disruptive by the mainland hans bu...
by habal
22 Jun 2020 10:41
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

they are not conditioned into believing anything. The Han Chinese believed they were superior to the primitive, barbarian, smelly northern mongol hordes before being attacked and overwhelmed by the mongols who until then were believed to be medieval, violent & disruptive by the mainland hans but...
by habal
19 Jun 2020 11:41
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

Chinese won't remain massed in the lower valleys for long esp since that they have already been warned adequately by cloudbursts. It's only a matter of time (short) that they break out to cut off the road. It will not be a two-front war since the pakistanis lost an f16 due to electronic malfunction ...
by habal
19 Jun 2020 11:09
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

Saar, wouldnt some well targeted artillery to the sides of the rydges "thunderclaps/cloud bursts" cause the kind of land slides that took tens of chinki lives this week? If hostilities actually start, the PLA in that deep gorge will be sitting ducks and will be slaughtered. That is if Ind...
by habal
19 Jun 2020 11:05
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

Gen Bikram Singh came on TV the other day and was saying how it would not be proper for him to probe his juniors on the situation since that may be construed as inference and inaporpriate attention. And here we have a Col boasting away and giving away hidden negotiation details on his bloody twitter...
by habal
19 Jun 2020 10:56
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

When Shuklaw said that 10 of our soldiers were still being held hostage, there was not a peep from our side, if this GoI goes on similar lines into future, people like Shooklaw will still hold relevance and get a chance to peddle their propaganda mixed with half truths. Looks like there is someone ...
by habal
19 Jun 2020 10:42
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

When Shuklaw said that 10 of our soldiers were still being held hostage, there was not a peep from our side, if this GoI goes on similar lines into future, people like Shooklaw will still hold relevance and get a chance to peddle their propaganda mixed with half truths.
by habal
19 Jun 2020 10:07
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

be prepared for a showdown in October. This was just a trailer. The Chinese think we are upto something and tried to make a point by taking PoWs and dissuading us from the later campaign.

That was the whole point of the galwan adventure.
by habal
19 Jun 2020 10:04
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

^^^That's an old video of several weeks ago you can find here in this thread or the earlier thread. With such skirmishes in past record I wonder why we were not better prepared mentally that something was bound to happen. Letting CO walk unarmed and lightly escorted was a mistake that the soldiers ...
by habal
19 Jun 2020 09:47
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

have recd a whatspp fwd which shows the fighting between Indian & Chinese forces in what now appears to be the finger areas adjoining a water body. 5 Chinese vehicles are parked near the river & IA jawans have one Chinese in custody, probably dragged out of the vehicles and he is covered wit...
by habal
18 Jun 2020 20:02
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

the reason why we have not build up like the Chinese have in the area is because we intend to hit their massed formations and do not want to give such easy target to them in return. I do not see a way in which the PLA can win any war, Global Times bluster apart, they have a long supply chain and thi...
by habal
18 Jun 2020 19:51
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

If things become a little uncomfortable for the chinese they have the very easy option of forcing the Pakis to open a second front. If they really target Indian cities then all India has to do is likewise strike the major export and manufacturing cities in China like Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Tianjin an...
by habal
18 Jun 2020 13:32
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

As per ladakh locals, this Chinese activity has been going on for months and their pleas to the govt to take action has fallen on deaf ears. So if the ladakh locals know about what is going on in the Chinese side and the Indian army knew obviously being first line of contact why was the govt so casu...
by habal
17 Jun 2020 12:44
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

Until the Chinese come up with their numbers we cannot presume any of them have died in first place. Secondly even we would not have announced any numbers if there were no chinese casualties. We can also hide numbers if need be. Nobody is a saint in war, afterall we also kept quite for more than 18 ...
by habal
16 Jun 2020 19:37
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

time to stop pussyfooting and appoint VK Singh as def min. Time to get cracking, China is not the mongol horde, it just needs to be squeezed. Rajnath Singh types cannot manage that, we need to look & mean business.
by habal
16 Jun 2020 14:01
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Replies: 8042
Views: 1602676

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

Very weak all round performance which rekindles the ghosts of 26/11 and non-response. Until now I was not taking this border conflict seriously but this changes the equation completely. India relying on border management entirely through diplomacy also negates our decades long military experience wi...
by habal
08 May 2020 21:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Why is ICMR sleeping at wheel and dragging its feet to certify many Indian made test kits ? In this hour of crisis is the imported defective commission generating Chinese kits all what that float their boats ? India cannot afford to have such organisations mismanaging covid response. Only Korean, Ch...
by habal
06 May 2020 11:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

there is no need to lockdown economy imho, making compulsory wearing of masks and preventing crowding and practicing certain safe protocols are enough to prevent spread of this virus. & US is leading epic misdiagnosis of this pandemic under able leadership of dr. antony fauci. as this NY doctor ...
by habal
04 May 2020 12:12
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 7497
Views: 1742884

Re: Understanding the US - Again

So is Covid19 a joint democrat deep state & PRC PLA endeavour to embarass economic credentials of Trump 1.0 ??
by habal
01 May 2020 22:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

What is the exit plan? I don't see the red zone going away in 2 weeks in Mum/Del/Chn or Ahmedabad. Without those cities a large section of the economy is out of action. And with non-essential shops now allowed to open (so long as they are standalone) in the red zones as well, the case load will pro...
by habal
21 Apr 2020 08:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

first and second was bio war on china

third was chinese response ?
by habal
20 Apr 2020 22:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Forgive the question. I have not been able to understand why MERS and SARS could be controlled but chinese virus could not. Does anyone have an explanation or a reference to an article that explains this. Thank you in advance. Look at it this way :- SARS -> MERS -> NIPAH -> COVID19 each step is an ...
by habal
19 Apr 2020 22:00
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2176865

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Firstly India must stop sending so many Indians to these arab countries in this day & age and those who go must be supported to the hilt by the might of the Indian govt. We need to move up the value chain and wean Indians off the coolie type jobs that used to be available aplenty. Meanwhile some...
by habal
13 Apr 2020 13:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

the presence of slums and shacks in urban India is now going to bite back. This is where covid is going to spread in rampant fashion. These zones will need to be micromanaged from hereon. Lockdown in middle-class and rich communities is almost success. It is the unregulated and thickly populated slu...
by habal
13 Apr 2020 10:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Bangladesh News and Discussion
Replies: 2752
Views: 539252

Re: Bangladesh News and Discussion

Bangladesh has total of 30 ventilators for a population of 130 million. So much for the european conditions these middle-class bengladeshi chauvinists keep dreaming up about. It has a long way to go even before it reaches Sri Lanka standards. Any poor person would like to escape from bangladesh to A...
by habal
13 Apr 2020 10:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Lockdown is not working in Dharavi and other slum/ghetto pockets of Mumbai. Dharavi needs to be ring-fenced and contained and its citizens blocked from travelling outside. Makeshift hospitals should be set up in Dharavi and well stocked with HCQ etc. If this is not done on an immidiate basis Mumbai ...
by habal
30 Mar 2020 11:08
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2176865

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Who here agrees that the dehli migrant rush towards Anand Vihar bus depot and the Kerala migrant rush towards somewhere on same day was a coordinated affair.

Praise be to the Lord that the whole country is on quarantine and the perpetrators have no where to escape.
by habal
27 Mar 2020 13:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

nvishal wrote:The Pakistani military has gone in shock and are trying to impose a lockdown without an endgame.
they have recalled brother of nawaz sharif who was cm of punjab back to pakistan to tackle the indicisiveness of IM-led admin.
by habal
23 Mar 2020 18:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

maybe those are patented weaves. Well, this is emergency and time to break out of such restrictions.
by habal
19 Mar 2020 21:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1782
Views: 630921

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015

There's no Gods involved in any of this, just negative characters. During my days researching conspiracy theories, I came across uncannily detailed descriptions of a biowarfare base in the nevada desert called the Dulce base . Note that the dulce base is a multi-level totally underground base of whi...
by habal
17 Mar 2020 21:51
Forum: Military Issues Archive
Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
Replies: 3885
Views: 1869954

Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019

LCA for India is like F22 for USA, it is the premier home grown platform. Also like China's J20 and Russian Su-34, Tu-160 and Tu-23. Some platforms are so potent to their makers that they cannot be exported.
by habal
15 Mar 2020 10:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

More than climates, it is micro-climates that are a problem in spreading covid19. People have tendency with varying degrees of opportunity or affluence to create micro-climates to habitate or in workplace, some may have basements and other people may have airconditioned environment and some habitati...
by habal
13 Mar 2020 15:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2822219

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Is Wuhan some kind of a special city in China with great universities and people with highly specialized and technical skill sets. If so, why should they spend their time in terroristan, wont they prefer Italy, Germany or France or even Japan, Korea, Vladivostok instead were they work in specialized...
by habal
11 Mar 2020 07:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1954657

Re: Levant crisis - III

yak herder's dream/nightmare scenario ... battle by hundreds of drones overwhelming AD systems. https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/russia-says-2-syrian-pantsir-systems-were-damaged-during-turkish-military-attack/ “As a result of mass attack by Turkish combat unmanned aerial vehicles, two Syrian...
by habal
09 Mar 2020 22:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1954657

Re: Levant crisis - III

Y.N.M.S @ynms79797979 · 3h Important : A very heavy flight of Russian reconnaissance flights in the countryside of Idlib, especially in the western part of the governorate and Mount Zawia. Y.N.M.S @ynms79797979 · 3h A Turkish drone (Bayrakdar TB-2) crashes at an air force base in Batman The Turkish ...
by habal
08 Mar 2020 10:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 1954657

Re: Levant crisis - III

the main turkic militia operating in idlib, north western aleppo and hasakah are the turkomen ethnic tribe which converted wholesale into isis, nusra, hizbut tahrir al sham. This is the definition of the word fifth column if any. After eating bread of Syria for so long they still have no loyalty.