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Your views are spot on. I agree with it. My usage of the word bureaucratic was in the context of 'too many chefs spoil the soup'. I guess it was poor choice of words on my part, I shouldn't have used the word 'bureaucracy'. What I mean to say is, we need a joint chief of staffs like post, at...

That institution does exactly that, it's mentioned in one of the news articles I have linked below the photos. It deals with special forces comms, centralized naval comms infrastructure, intel gathering, storing, and offensive cyber warfare.

Parrikar inaugurated a cyber command just recently. I'd seen pictures of him doing the traditional Indian opening ceremony. I am unable to find that news now because I forgot the acronym, but I found these articles relevant to the issue : http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=131811...

My rationale was that it creates unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles and there is a risk of leakage of sensitive data. There is never going to be a case where the airforce is going to undertake a deep strike mission as an isolated event where no other branch of the military participates. It's...

@LETHALFORCE As part of the same non-aligned movement, Nehru also interfered in the Suez crisis against the invaders (France, Israel) and in favor of the US led coalition of pro-Egypt parties. Non-aligned was the best way to prevent us from being completely sucked into the cold war battle...

This is why I recommend splitting our air assets and distributing them. We can't put all our eggs in one basket, definitely not the IAF basket. Just two days ago they have arrested some wing commander for misappropriation of OROP funds. Not surprisingly AAP is campaigning to get him out.

+1 to that recommendation. This recommendation was made for the first time almost 3 decades ago by K. Subrahmanyam but we still haven't come around to accomplishing that. He recommended that the post of the NSA must have cabinet approval. The NSA must be allowed to have his own office (basically...

When I was in primary school, I used to have a fantasy that one day some terrorists will attack my school and I will alone defeat all of them and save all my classmates and teachers and become their favorite. It was the time Shaktimaan was very popular, so many kids those days had such...

The government as an institution, regardless of which party is in power, has certain handicaps and realities that it has to work with, which has a bearing on their policies. Therefore I agree with your assessment that some policies of different governments might appear to overlap. But one cannot...

What is IAF? Italian airforce? Israeli airforce? Iran airforce? because they sure as hell aren't behaving like they are Indian airforce. They are behaving as if they are an independent organization. Doing daalali on behalf of foreign defense agents is what they are good at. The biggest role that...

Someone at the higher up level in the IAF needs to be fired and humiliated publicly to set an example like we did for Avinash Chander. They have to understand that they can't adorn high posts in government organizations with allocations of billions of dollars without accountability. If you...

Look at the difference in attitudes between Navy and IAF. The Navy, despite a shortage of funds, keeps the nation's interests in mind, unlike the spoiled IAF. Can the IAF ever speak with such humility and loyalty towards domestic manufacturing? I think not.

Both China and Pakistan will attack us this weekend, if one goes by the alarmist rhetoric that is coming out of IAF and maybe even Maldives, Nepal and Bhutan will join in. That's why we need at least 100 squadrons of planes imported from all countries, some Rafales, some F35s, F16s, PAK-FA, SU...

These empty threats of IAF remind me of a useless classmate of mine. His family was poor and his parents were illiterate, they took loans to educate him, and this dude use to fool them. He never attended classes, wasted all the money on movies, then asked his parents to buy him a bike because...

In addition to these technical considerations there are also political considerations to make. Relying on very high tech stuff in large numbers from a nation makes us politically beholden to them on multilateral forums dealing with geopolitical issues. Giving in to the kind of obscene demands...

Exactly. In fact, the MoD must invite these IAF divas to a meeting and tell them plainly, "if you think you can't win a war given the current scenario, then we completely understand your predicament and don't want you to take the blame for any loss that you may suffer in a future fight. Please...

There are many books written on this issue, there are many defense experts who have criticized the IAF for coming up with cooked up requirements and cooked up squadron availability. One day they say we have 33, next day they say 28, then 24. 42 are sanctioned but there are other realities to...

Let's admit the fact that the IAF has a history of deliberately coming out with such statements every six months. These laments are strategically timed, and it's always an IAF guy giving a personal briefing to news channels and writing editorials in top news papers like some chuglikhor...