Yes, we need to be ready to hit deep inside China meaning on their southern & eastern flanks but with what? Right now, they have all the tools necessary to hit us deep inside the hinterland without any fear of retaliation because our security managers have decided all BMs < 750 km will be N tipped & under the SFC. Not so with the Chinese.
Chinese economic heartland can be reached from Arunachal Pradesh. The Pearl River Delta is within range but only as last resort.
When I said "deep inside China", I meant to target their supply lines in their hinterlands in Tibet and Xinjiang. Most Indians from the plains do not understand how vulnerable China is in Tibet; the place is an open field for anyone willing to shoot things like BrahMos, Pralay and Shaurya missiles for different targeted attacks.
Isolating PLA frontlines from their Han heartland is not as difficult as it appears. There are very few, distant connection points that connect Tibet with the rest of China. They may appear numerically superior to our connections, but they are much, much more vulnerable due to remoteness. The Hotan air base, for example, is situated in a convenient location that can be reduced to ashes, thereby causing significant delays to their airborne operations if hit early. There is a vast supply line gap between Hotan and tertiary bases closer to the Han heartland.
When stuff hits the ceiling & they unleash their massive missile power on our mainland in frustration over the expected stalemate (which itself isn't guaranteed but just for the sake of argument), over the situation on the border all our guys can do is hold their dicks while they do to us what Russia is doing to Ukraine purely because they can & we can't.
Don't be so sure. A massive missile retaliation that causes unacceptable damage in India (Heaven forbid), will force us to go nuclear across all of Chinese heartlands. At that time, paper agreements and treaties such as NFU will be useless. Chinese know that a prolonged fight against us would only mean mutually assured destruction. What we need to do is to move in with speed, hold territory and negotiate; Communists with a capitalistic flavour rely on negotiations.
See, Russia loves power and the Chinese love bargaining strategic leverage. That's where the Ukraine-Russia and China-India equations cannot be compared.
3 months before 1962 war started. i think posted couple times here .
1962 + 62 = 2024 . gud chance some shit will happen just before election
Can't rule that out, given that secularist-Islamist-communist parties are all on board with the Chinese and Pakistanis. At the same time, Americans would also like a weakened central government.
Well, I see it as a way for PM Narendra Modi to use all of his deftness and ensure that elections become irrelevant in front of his and the country's success in case such an event takes place. One thing is clear; Indian foreign policy and military assertiveness will only get more forceful from hereon.
There is no turning back and any forceful action from the government will only be cheered on by the more youthful, increasingly nationalistic (even if not completely Hindu nationalistic) population. So the more hostile our retaliation is, the more stronger PM Modi's influence gets.
Basically, a war or even a skirmish will play to NaMo's advantage.