somnath wrote:RayC wrote:CDS will never come. The GOI is dead scared of a coup given their shoddy governance. And at the same time, I would state the Armed Forces have no clue to govern and so they will not try it. So, we are safe!
I dont think anyone is scared of a coup anymore.
A military coup in India is an absolute impossibility.
Please note how the other Armed formations like BSF, CRPF, state Armed reserve police etc etc are wide spread, dispersed and controlled by different and often warring ministries. Not like most of our neighbors where the police forces are intentionally kept weak and the army is all pervasive.
No one can bring all these disparate prima donnas on board without the IB and state intelligence sniffing out the coup. This is why the Armed forces are being constantly undermined in public by political pygmies, like fernandes and antony dared to do!
Most of our intelligence failures are because a large majority of these intelligence resources are inward looking, a paranoid hangover from our colonial past. The political blighters are busy watching one another!
If the police reforms are carried out and the police made truly independent, the politicians will not be able to access these resources to keep track of their opponents and other perceived threats. This is why sixty odd years after we kicked out the white goras, the brown goras do not want police reforms.
When do we kick the brown goras out?
The fiasco of the IPKF revealed the complete cross purposes to which our various national agencies are capable of working. These morons sabotaged all the Army efforts by directly double dealing with multifarious srilankan and ltte factions.
Is there no over riding national objective?
The left hand not knowing what the right is doing.
Do you think that such a situation has come about without careful thought and years of subtle planning and organisation by the congress party given the rabid fear that randy nehru had of a military coup. The continuous degrading of the Service Chiefs' in the warrant of precedence is proof of this nefarious strategy. The constant use and degradation of the Army, Navy and IAF for flood relief and pulling babies out of deep borewells?
Whats wrong with the bloody states administrations using their police forces or Territorial army or whatever. They are also equally well organised and trained, at least for these mundane type jobs!
By all means use the Armed forces when required but not routinely and every time without applying the brain.
TV often shows borewell tragedies where the public is screaming for the Army to be called! Is this what the Army have been reduced to?