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The US additionally employs private military contractors in Afghanistan. Blackwater pays 50k$/year to each individual contractor. It's costing them dearly, hence the attempt to sell the lollypop of telling India that it is in our interest to deploy there, at our own expense. There are no allies...

That's the same thing everyone on the forum has been saying. I've never found a single DFI member having Aman-Ki-Aasha type love for Afghans. We like them on a temporary tactical basis vis-a-vis their actions against the US and Pakistan.

Don't be so happy about a foreign power trying to set up a permanent base on top of your head. Forget the Afghan people. An American base with its radar, ELINT, AWACS and other paraphernalia sitting so close to Indian soil is de facto a containment of India. The low cost jihadis they train and...

If China is such a wise-ass, and if Afghanistan is such a golden strategic opportunity, why aren't they deploying their troops in Afghanistan and denying India that opportunity? Pakistan is their friend, it'll co-operate too, given the prospect of keeping India out. Them Chinese, with all their...

Read the subtitles, very telling. Interviewer : "The Taliban does terror attacks, why doesn't the US declare the Taliban a terror group" Amarullah : ".....because Pakistan wont allow it"

The Taliban is not a homogenous group. It is America's attempt to create a sub-national organization whose top management is in America's pocket and the middle management is in ISI's pocket and the lower run jawans are freelance contractors. They want to create a false representative of the...

That's not 'giving'. That's predatory pricing. They are flooding the market so their goods are cheap. That's some narrative building. Trade surplus created by flooding smaller markets who don't have the benefit of scale is now being peddled as "lending goods for your progress". Is it not...

What has China given? it has disrupted every single industry there is for its own advantage, from electronics to finances. It has forced everyone to shrink their margins. It has dislodged infra developers in Europe and become a monopoly in road construction there. They even built a nuclear plant...

The statement is just a cherry on the top, there is a whole big cake under it which you are missing. Russia does joint drills for their own military diplomacy. They don't give billions of dollars and high tech weaponry to Pakistan and cause hundreds of our soldiers to be killed by it, the way...

India holds drills with Pakistan's ally China just like Russia holds drills with Pakistan. The scope of both of these side-projects is very limited. Russia has been having drills and selling weapons to Pakistan for a few years now. India does not feel insecure about it. India also buys weapons...

It doesn't matter under whose flag we fight as long as India benefits from it. It's not the same as fighting for the benefit of the British empire. India will benefit if we deploy in Afghanistan but it's only a cherry on the top. It's not the pudding itself. The goal is not high valued enough...

We have all accepted that that's how our @Chatrapathi packages his opinion. We don't get angry at his choice of words now. :D From time to time, he makes some good points packaged in his [you're all stupid] Insert Chatrapati's Opinion Here [/ you're all stupid] packaging. @Chatrapathi When the...

Correct, sirji. We are doing that and constantly increasing our ITBP presence to protect our assets as and when our new infra projects/dams etc get completed in Afghanistan. India is also building more consulates in Afghanistan where we need to keep an eye on Pakistani insurgents. Indian Army...

What will be the nature of this intervention? Posting 2-3 strike corps in Afghanistan on permanent deployment? and perpetually dealing with the problem of resupplying them through air, from mainland India in a logistics denial environment (they'll face terror attacks but that's a manageable...

India wont get a seat at the table by simply nodding and agreeing to the terms put forth by a big power either. That position will have to be taken by resisting their designs for this region. Their designs are very antithetical to India. They want to prevent the rise of another pole in a...

Put Indian boots on the ground with what end goal? Right now, we are slowly increasing our military presence in Afghanistan. Every time we build a new dam or power project, we sanction more troops for its defense. We can only send boots proportional to our stakes. The US wants us to send boots...

The NSA's position is the foremost authority on security. Quoting him becomes an appeal to authority now? :D What's Dhoti-shivering about people wanting to impose costs on the US for transgressing Indian red lines? Quite the opposite. You're going too far to absolve the US. First of all, they...

Still, it's the same as giving them the moral approval and logistical wherewithal to continue operating a functional fleet. This is what I be sayin. It's not just some random, off-the-book comments by Trump. It's a cold calculated policy modulation that we are seeing. During the Kargil war...

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Look at the clever use of words. He says "any engagement with Pakistan" would be strictly bilateral (and not just engagements related to Kashmir). Contrast it with this hoopla : "there's bombs all over Kashmir" that's a reiteration of Pakistan's propaganda about 'Indian militarization of...