Respect your family for their sacrifice!
My old man was a RR commander in the days Anantnag was called Islamabad and was a terrorist camp.
Have lost one relative in RR and best friends in cross border loc ghatak raids.
Most of my family is in the army ..and i am the only civilian man of my generation.
Your Pa is almost a plank owner of RR then. Those were the days when RR itself was adapting and evoling. haha no offense I rather buy him a beer. man those would be great stories. Feel free to DM me if you are ever in Bombay.
However my friend how much you and me agree that Pak Army is the biggest Napaki thing in the region i have read history and always saw that only and only one thing matters is war.. your tactics.
Islam is a great brainwash for people in that region..we should never count that off.
Just an add/edit - Its not Islam that is a great brainwash. Its any fundamental view point of a Religion. What happened in Pakistan has been seen in South American Dictatorship militaries, The US Military (post vietnam), Turkey Current. Power Corrupts and Religion is often the easiest and greatest tool to control the masses. We should not be so arrogant to think we are immune.
Maybe their regular troops in UN were not motivated by the cause of blue berets and they decided to not sacrifice themselves in foreign lands for a cause which is not theirs?
I dont agree. A soldier is a soldier is a soldier. He is married to his oath and his mission/orders and his squad.
The thing with China (and ofcourse declaring my bias here) is that the PLA is fundamentally at odds with my idea/concept of Military Ethos. the PLA is not the military of the Chinese Nation. They are the military arm of the Politburo and The CCP. Their allegiance is not to their country but the party. Ofcourse the party will believe they are one and the same. Senior officers and princelings are all offsprings of CCP members. Each unit of the PLA answers to a Political Officer.
IMO this will always create a lack of unity at the fundamental level of why the average Grunt is fighting and why the Officer Cadre is there and that will always create a more corrupted ethos that becomes institutional memory over time.
That being said with the Capital that the Chinese they will ofcourse evolve and better their training. But for the most part they will do it in a vaccume. The only major powers they can learn from Russia and Pakistan. The rest of their "allies" are vassal states (And i am not including diplomatic feel good excersises)
Also - they are now suffering a supply side crunch in terms of HR with respect to the capital assets they are turning out. Their Ship COs are the youngest in the world with very little operational experience, They are churning out more ships and planes than pilots and captains they can train up. In the short term they are flooding the field with bodies but in the long term there is bound to have some effect on the operational capabilities of these fighting arms.
Secondly the last 2 times the PLA got into a shooting conflict (India 68 and Vietnam) they got a very bloody punch in the nose. Outside of posturing they have not fired a single shot in anger. Which is why the UN action is so stark in my head. I am sure they will do well when they control the battlefield and are executing a strategy from set pieces but are they flexible enough to adapt to fight asymmetrically?
and RR was the blunt instrument that paid high costs perfecting their SOP's. Much gratitude to that generation. They won Kargil with sheer force of will.
