Fire and groove
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1. That was 50 years ago, the people responsible for 71 are long since gone and the environment as well as the institutions are entirely different. The people who strategised 1971 did so after going through two successive wars and being forced into a process of trial by fire. There is no such provisions today, with the appointments of generals like Bipin Rawat being a key example of why. Late CDS Bipin Rawat, while certainly not a poor officer by any means, wasn't credited with an exceptional career either and was said to be more politically charged and active by his peers, something that wasn't looked kindly. He was also decidedly against the shift in strategic priorities from Pakistan to China probably seeing it would consequently lead to a priority shift from army centric mechanised maneuver formations to more defensive formations with a heavier emphasis on a far more fleshed out, integrated yet independant airforce. This is further backed by his crusade against the airforce into being a subserviant, supportive arm to the army. Your statement is also ignorant of the masterclass in offensive operations that was the gulf war, or the several conventional successes of the US.Says the citizen of a country that literally broke another reasonably powerful country into 2 parts and formed a new country out of it. NICE!
2. None of that has to do with SOF at all. Your statement is a complete pivot from the arguement. The US has defacto the most fleshed out SOF forces in the world and has been pioneering the concept for the past 40 years, India isn't remotely close and hasn't taken even the remotest steps responsible like the creation of a SOCOM equivalent to set the foundations barring whatever abomination AFSOD is meant to be, since the "prototype" hypothesis is rapidly becoming less likely; nor has it developed or employed it's SOF in their effective roles all too much. You know you've fucked up somewhere regarding special operations when one of the biggest mandates for the Garud - a SOF unit - is pulling guard duty for an airbase. This doesn't even get into individual equipment or training yet.