Its not about if this is being done for show or not! Its the principle, you are supposed to be the best of the best and some woman walks in does less than half of what you did to earn that badge and still makes it? How would that make you feel? This is nation security, this is special forces meant to achieve success in missions that are impossible! You cannot affort wokism here.
Indian SF stopped being special a long time ago
when was the last thing we saw anything on this thread that was ‘special’, that a light infantry unit in the West couldn’t pull off with far more ease and success?
the closest I’ve seen is MARCOs doing para jumps into the open ocean with boats, that’s legit SF stuff. But there’s almost nothing else to be seen.
Most Indian ‘SF’ units have DMRs and call themselves snipers, drive around in civilian pickups/trucks and are little more than a QRT/SWAT for their respective branches.
May as well let women in and finish off the job of taking away any respectability they might have once had. Despite there now being decades of cross training/exercises and thousands of Western personnel having rubbed shoulders with their Indian counterparts I’ve not heard a single account praising any Indian unit. Iraqis, afghans,Japanese, Filipinos, Jordanians etc at one time or another but never an Indian unit.
If the Indian cricket team was never mentioned by Australians/English players one might start to suspect the Indian team weren’t very good
