It is amazing to see FU-NFU being discussed upto such a length in BRF.
I would say this whole story about NFU/FU is bogus and is a work of bogus people lurking somewhere in our own ruling corridors. Going by complexity of this issue, ,this is a derogatory term
Now, this term NFU,from where it originated ? ,who used it first, USSR,USA,Britain,France,china,?
If we have to look from where our policy makers catched this term like they took the term 'secularism' (and 'arth ka anarth kar dala' ie did everything anti secular in the name of secularism .lets not get into such issues ,but point is to make is that this term NFU which is highly embedded in our policy making)
is actually copied from china ,ooh !, the same country which coined the term 'Hindi -chini bhai bhai' and we accepted it with garlands .
We know the chinese are good at deception ,but more interesting thing for them is that their neighbour is always ready to be decieved , sometimes by british east India company,sometimes by pakistan ,and most of the times by USA and China.
There is no such thing as NFU in practical terms and FU is not suitable to be discussed .
There is an open doctrine in PLA circles ,which was even mentioned in western media, that PLA had openly supported FU of tactical nukes as and where it gets an opportunity and that first use will be done in the cover of claimed self defence. This is their standing .
Whether we are clear or not about FU ,but they are d$% clear about it,speaks their arsenal of nuke missiles.
What are we doing then ?Its called passive and lazy development .
The indigenous missile development program called the IGMDP is on oxygen, only focused upon certain missile range extension of Agni3,but not critical developments like asats,icbms etc ,give credit to MMS .
We dont need only tested prototypes,we need a good number of 5000,8000 km range missiles ready in our arsenal asap.
If war starts tomorrow, we dont stand a chance,because our stone henge weapons dont stand a chance against a barrage of thousands of cruise missile from both
paki and
chinese cruise missiles at crucial locations.It is certain that chinese toy industry would be providing most of the pieces of cruise missile to pakis in huge quantities . Not to mention the arsenal of IRBMs targeted at India, we dont have credible air defence .
All these vital areas are lacking proper thrust (by design or because of some natural mental disease )from the GoI ,because babus are policy makers but they do not fight wars, .In such cases(if it occurs so early) our sole defence should be to nuke them first without warning and political drama ,but we need a lot of nukes and missiles to nuke them.
But we are short of both,so whats the conclusion? It is that we are defenseless and not ready for a two front war
I wont look at the situation being an Indian PM (as previously asked) ,but I will see it other way round that is....
If I were a chinese general,I would be excited because americans are losing, isi is winning,naxals are winning, Indian communication systems are rigged ,even on papers its armed forces arent prepared factually ,country allows anti Indians like pseudo seculars,jihadis,western agants to breathe freely and,,,its center is ruled by a man who only knows when to rise or fall CRR/SLR, then,..
now is the time , within a couple of years to initiate an adventure ,backed by suicidal jihadi nation, isnt it a good plan to emerge victorious??
What do our gurus make of it,shiv,ramana,acharya,...anyone??
Our first priority should be 500 active nuclear weapons and delivery systems .
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... but I just have a data point (between 2007-08)