Manipur and J&K incidents.... call me cynic but its Pak and China collab'ing and coordinating for creating two separate pressure points...
Frankly I don't think there's any Chinese footprint in Manipur as of now . If the situation persists it's possible we'd see something. Right now what's happening in Manipur is courtesy Tatmadaw losing control over the North & North West of Myanmar exactly where the Chin rebels are located.
As far as the present incident in Reasi goes , it calls for a tit for tat retaliation on the lines of what our boys used to conduct across the LoC in PoK in the 1990s when terrorists murdered civilians .
Beyond that we tighten our grid in Jammu & keep targeting them in Paxtan thru unknown gunmen which in any case is happening.
There are limits to what we can do in Jammu with a good section of the IA employed for duties across the LAC . Add to that the Agniveer program & the fact we've actually cut down on the IA's strength to the tune of nearly 2,00,000 personnel since 2020 under the pretext of COVID.
CI ops in our part of the world especially given the topography means more men . Period. The same is true for the IA given the upcoming war against China. I've argued before the downsizing of the IA & this Agniveer program have come at the wrong time . Both these require we solve at least one front or at the very least have one front dormant.
As far as Agniveer goes they need to up the tour of duty to 8 years from the current 4 & increase the intake to at least 50% possibly more . There's already a precedent for it . It was our standard recruitment practise in the 1960s & 70s IIRC .
If Modi could earmark upwards of 1 lakh crore on Infrastructure projects surely he could devote a quarter of it to CAPEX if not both - CAPEX & OPEX .Our problem is we already have bean counters in the babudom . That's now being supplemented by a baniya duo at the highest echelons . There's no holistic vision.
While what's happening in J&K today , as distressing as it can be , are pinpricks , the real problem will arise when we confront China. Not that this government was proactive even when they had a majority of their own but now they'd be preoccupied with other considerations not to mention the budget , which will be diverted now for freebies. The loss of someone like MP is immeasurable.