Russia too. Chechens are no joke.
But Russia was failing and crashing where we succeeded. The first Chechen war was a disaster politically (not necessarily militarily) but I'd say the late 90s Russian military was the weakest Russian military in the history of Russian military to have ever military'd.
I'll end up going off on a tangent here so... Let's avoid OT stuff and stick to Indian SOF.
Absolutely. And as they say neccessity is the mother of invention. The more they got involved into that, the more their equipment, tactics, way of working etc evolved. Pretty natural. And their MIC got good funding and support to keep pumping stuff out.
Now the focus shifts to China, we will see new tactics, equipment emerging to counter them. Interesting stuff for sure in the next decade.
This is the new cold war.
US doesn't have the balls to attack China head on.
Kinetically, while the US is training it's island hopping capability and subterranean warfare, it's just an afterthought. The current development will focus more or less on intelligence.
Spy planes, satellites, ELINT, SIGINT etc. That is till Chinese economy collapses. The thing here is, US is now in remission. It spread, it invaded and it damaged but you can not do that forever. US military has seen it's best days.
Now, it's back to the woodland BDU era for them.
I pray those uber*ucks don't start focusing on biowarfare though.
F*ck that.