But Sir, by this logic we will never be able to retaliate for any such attack in strong terms let alone a enforced War. I agree a warlike situation will have repercussions. But preparation for such eventualities should be done a priori. Doesn't GOI know that one of these attacks is just waiting to happen?? Where is the contingency planning and preparation?? Will we wait for another Kargil or '71 until we try and prepare our people for War, and then too take our own sweet time to prepare for war?? Op Parakram was an eye opener for us - it took us almost a month to mobilise fully and almost 1000 of our soldiers died without any action whatsoever.tsarkar wrote:^^ As an example, if Pakistan launches a worthless missile that explodes a conventional 1000 kg warhead over an ODC in Whitefield or Hebbal and just damage the roof without causing any human casualties inside like Dwarka 1965, yet Indian and Foreign MNC's would start shutting down their ODCs in the city citing delivery risk and move jobs to Philippines.
How many out of work IT/ITES employed BR Members would still support an all out war? How many will have surplus money after roti, kapda, makaan to pay for 4G bandwidth to post on BRF?
We as citizens are not psychologically prepared for war. Unless that changes, a few 100's or 1000's killed won't make a difference.
The Israeli's faced national extermination in 1948, 1967 & 1971, and the entire nation was mobilised. In 1971, IG was able to mobilise the entire nation. Unless that happens, nothing changes.
Will we be ever dhoti shivering from fear of a full blown War and not react on such brazen attacks on us?? In my opinion its not the people who are not ready, most of us would do our bit happily when time comes. Its the higher ups who fear losing things. As such wars are hardly ever started by taking aam junata's opinions.
IMO we should have a ready made plan for a quick punitive retaliation which can be executed at short notice. We execute a limited response and retreat back before Pakis can respond with a full blown war. Not something as big as cold start but something like marked terrorist locations, PA installations for bombings, missile attacks etc. Whenever we are attacked we execute some of those missions and bleed the Pakis. So they will think 100 times before planning next attack. While we can keep working on diplomacy, long term actions items, isolating pakis etc etc. Question is - Are our forces capable of preparing and executing such plans?? If yes, does GOI has guts to give go ahead to our soldiers?? If not what needs to be done to acquire such capabilities??
