He went on being against me to being in my team.
But one thing I appreciate that this guy is digging posts from 3-4 years ago..reading them and giving me likes.
Hard working chap..similar to what
@abingdonboy used to do in Paki forum whenhe was new about 10-13 years ago.
I’ve read over 20 books in the last year. Many on Lanka, many on 1965, 1971. Have also began watching several interviews. Digging up so many older news articles. Still I haven’t even been able to uncover 20% of Indian military operations. It’s been very tough. Your older posts basically align with what I have to say (Indian Army declining throughout the 2000s, the 90s operations in Kashmir was full of badassery by pretty much every arms branch, our piss poor sniping capabilities).
I still do have my slight disagreements in regards to some oeprations like Lanka and Kargil and infantry’s role, but your posts have given me new insights into how the army operated.
For example I used to be concerned about the fact that Pakis were attacking us and we weren’t retaliating, but your posts dismissed them as I learned about raids in which ghataks killed 20-30 Pakis.
I agree wholeheartedly that para has painfully fallen behind, and the operations in Kashmir show this. I’ve tracked 9 paras casualties since it was inducted in 91 to now, and never had it taken more than 5 in a year. However, some of the op’s para and infantry have done from what I’ve read and heard were world class. Have talked to some Americans whose fathers served in Vietnam and green berets used to do similar ops to paras in 90s regarding to stalking.
We have our strengths and weakenesses, but the weaknesses need to be addressed. I mean para snipers can’t even go past 800 meters!
Indian military has a respectable record against militants, objectively. NE, Kashmir in 90s, ltte, Punjab were all tough nuts and well trained, but the amount of casualties we could have reduced by simply equipping our boys and preparing them is mindblowing.
I maintain we could have prevented 50% of casualties in Op Vijay and Op pawan by simply preparing them for the damn mission. The organization of the military in the 70s was far superior to what it is now. We had proper SFs back then and airborne infantry. Nowadays we are raising one airborne battalion and making them SF in months. WTF! it’s fuckinf criminal!
SF is our weapon. We need to treat it like such.