Are we worse off than we were is the past when we fought wars on the insurgencies in the '90s?
If the political leadership asks something of the forces, they'll come up with a way to get it done. Its always been stupid political leadership that has fu*ked us.
For instance:
Why did India give back the Haji Pir Pass to Pakistan?
'We don't know what the reasons were that we gave back the Haji Pir Pass which was strategically very important. Today the entire infiltration into Kashmir takes place from that area. If we had retained that post that we had captured, things could have been different.'
'A lesson we need to learn is if you start losing the gains of war at the negotiating table, they become a disincentive for future wars,' says Lieutenant General D B Shekatkar (retd), reviewing the lessons from the 1965 War.
We all know the sheer idiocy of releasing 90k Paki PoW for virtually nothing in return or several other major blunders that followed.
As for preparedness, what has this government done in the past three years to get ready?
Forget Pakis, we can't even deal with bloody Naxals adequately.