iNorthernerOn9
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India’s armed forces are totally capable of doing the warfighting reqd for physically making it to the Wakhan Corridor & Shaksgam Valley. What is reqd from the US is only airlift capability, i.e. heavylift platforms like CH-53 Super Stallions & MV-22 Ospreys, which can easily operate from the airstrips alongside existing national highways within J & K & Ladakh UTs. In all, about six such airstrips are reqd to serve as ALGs & they all can easily be constructed over a 6-month period. Once contiguity with Wakhan Corridor is established, the US expeditionary forces can use this corridor to fly into Kunduz & Mazar-e-Sharif unopposed at the ‘invitation’ of the NRFA, because legally speaking, until the Taliban regime drafts a new Constitution & gain recognition(which they won't), the present-day Constitution of Afghanistan remains in place as a valid instrument & under this the Acting President has the powers to take all national executive decisions. India too can use this instrument to set up a forward operating logistics base (for both battlefield logistics & humanitarian relief distribution work) inside Badakhshan for supporting the NRFA forces spread throughout northern Afghanistan. Liberation of GB will be possible if a no-fly zone is coercively created for only a 7-day period by joint IAF-USAF barrier CAPs, for which USAF AEW & CS support will be reqd on a 24/7 basis.
So what are Pakistan’s options? Active military opposition in the air is totally ruled out, since any attempted opposition by the PAF will result in 80% fleet attrition losses being incurred due to the decisive joint IAF-USAF force projection capabilities. On the ground, no mischief will be possible in the Chhamb-Sialkot sector, since the IA’s 31 & 33 Armoured Divisions have already been earmarked for this sector to blunt any PA ground offensive. And since military hostilities will be limited to only the terrain astride the WB & LoC, there will be no vertical escalation by either party under a nuclear overhang. This in turn will make it almost impossible for China to enter the fray in any meaningful military manner, given its severe shortcomings in the arena of high-altitude warfare.
For those worried about economy(Excuse/Bahana-sitis): There is never any better time & hence one has to make do with what one has got. That’s what happened in 1965, 1971 & again in 1999.
So what are Pakistan’s options? Active military opposition in the air is totally ruled out, since any attempted opposition by the PAF will result in 80% fleet attrition losses being incurred due to the decisive joint IAF-USAF force projection capabilities. On the ground, no mischief will be possible in the Chhamb-Sialkot sector, since the IA’s 31 & 33 Armoured Divisions have already been earmarked for this sector to blunt any PA ground offensive. And since military hostilities will be limited to only the terrain astride the WB & LoC, there will be no vertical escalation by either party under a nuclear overhang. This in turn will make it almost impossible for China to enter the fray in any meaningful military manner, given its severe shortcomings in the arena of high-altitude warfare.
For those worried about economy(Excuse/Bahana-sitis): There is never any better time & hence one has to make do with what one has got. That’s what happened in 1965, 1971 & again in 1999.
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