And you're back with what seems to be your only source on Indian SF. Again, not doubting Major Vivek Jacob's credentials but COME ON, DUDE!
We might not be bombing houses in Kashmir but do you have any idea how many times RR has resorted to just blow up the damn house with explosives or just set the house on fire with flamethrowers just so that they don't have to engage in actual door to door CQB?
Do you have any idea, how many Indian SF operatives have lost their lives in CQB operations over the years in Kashmir because they lacked basic SOF equipment like stun grenades. Do you understand that many of these casualties wouldn't have happened if they had proper night fighting capabilities and could employ the tactical advantage of the night?
Sure Kashmir is one hell of a heated sector but have you any idea how ignorant you sound when you compare it to the GWOT in Afghanistan?
Using the tactical advantage that is provided by the darkness of the night has been what has been winning the western SOF battles for decades now. And after all the equipment that Taliban has amassed from the leftovers in Afghanistan, the day is not far when the HM militant holed up in a house has an actual tactical advantage over our SF because of better night fighting capabilities.
Have you ever studied how Indian forces still fight terror in Kashmir? It's literally ancient doctrine. Pulling a cordon, waiting for RR to move in, calling SF even if there's the slightest complexity. The amount of deployment that is done in Kashmir for a few militants is just overkill, if you have properly trained guys. Everytime there's an encounter, there's JKP SOG, CRPF and RR there with the occasional SF deployment. If this were Afghanistan, it would have been a couple of detachments of Green Berets with Army Rangers on standby for emergency extraction. THAT'S IT. And this isn't even for run-of-the-mill militants. I'm talking medium level HVTs. For more critical HVTs, replace Green Berets with Tier 1. And all this would have been in the dead of the night with ISR overhead and noone would have had a clue until the next morning. No day long cordons, no blowing up buildings, no shitshow!
Face it dude. Indian SF is nowhere it used to be. Don't give examples of Surgical Strikes and 26/11. If you really had enough knowledge, you would have known why you shouldn't be citing them as examples.
And as for training, India doesn't really have the upper hand in training. Sure India trains some nations like Djibouti and Phillipines and Bangladesh but in all other cases it's joint training. Granted HAWS is one hell of a facility but apart from that, nothing exceptional that Indian military has to offer. And definitely not SF.
Grow up, man. It's good to be proud of your country. But don't be so blind-sighted that you disregard facts.
And just to get you to start making reason I have a question for you. If Indian SF is so capable, how come we've never been able to strike a single HVT in Pakistan. There's certainly no lack of them.
And people the world over know the laurels of NSDWG and CAG when it comes to that.
Food for thought.
