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A mix of fortified structures, at places depending on availability of local material and accessibility, there are stone & mud sangars, dug down,riveted with thick corrugated iron sheet roof bunkers with loop holes & at places concrete pill boxes have come up too.

Good point ! Valid for the present dispensation, future bids good tidings, as India expands its military power & flexes her muscles there will be requirement of one point military advice and need to project our military power in the region to put rogues in their place. Day is not far when...

I couldn't agree more, but that was in the past Old templates yield predictable results We live in different times, The next war will not be from fortified defences only As of now a paradigm shift in thinking is required at all levels I am sure our senior commanders are besieged with this issue...

A war maxim Anything static for a long time in the war zone will be annihilated/ destroyed. Movement / Maneuver/ Fluidity will always be the hallmark of a Victor. More so ,fluid ( non predictable) thinking!

Your's & Kunal's concerns are very genuine & ideas new for our nation, this kind of imaginative deployment with full protection will do wonders for troop morale for a limited time frame. Personally I am of the view , huge investment in static defences is not going to win us battles...

No maginot line was not ditch cum bund (DCB) line, The Maginot Line (French: Ligne Maginot, IPA: [liɲ maʒino]), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapons installations that France constructed along its borders with...

Not quite the Maginot Line ( French border? ), which was considered to be impregnable (WW -II) but was turned by the Germans during their Blitzkrieg (lightning attack). Our situation is a combination of static & mobile troops. Bunkers well forward, mobile troops held centrally as reserve to...