Our shipyard can't manufacture or procure crucial parts by themselves.
I don't think 5 years. The 8 submarine deal for instance was concluded quite sometime back and subs were started to arrive from 2020/21. Now it's being pushed even back, a reason they are leasing a sub. Though that's a smart thing to do.
The thing is only the Western command should be able to take on Pakistan with some assistance from Southern command. That's it. Eastern command and Southern command should be able to patrol IOR and deter any incoming hostile navies and also mount shore based invasion capability.
With a budget of 140 Billion Pakistani Re .. How...
Sheer propaganda at work ..People saying that CCP will bankroll this need to get a reality check.. CCP will have their own house in dolls down few years due to new found mis-trust in trade...Ultimately, they will realize what US realized post 9 /11 .. U both might be snakes but snakes do kill each other when it's about survival..
The Pensions and Salary needs to be offset separately from defence budget.
It's sad they don't get the budgets. Hope the 3rd Aircraft Carrier and 4 LPDs get the nod.
Seems like they are stepping up. If they decide to do something, it won't be a solo adventure by Pakistanis this time as they did previously. They don't even have to use their brains when Chinkies and Turk doing it for them. We could face severe damage if we don't step up our game drastically. Our defensive policies have to scrapped. We gotta step up and put our boots on their soil. We must expand our boundaries. Before expanding we must take our own territories back and I don't mean POK, I mean our civilisational boundaries upto atleast Hindu Kush in West, bordering Burma in the east and make claims on Tibetan and Xinjiang territories and keep Chinese engaged there. That's a minimum we need.
Capture Punjab. We are moving in direction of armed conflict and they will strike because that's their primary motivation. We will do it first and deal with new enemies we find rather than figuring out ways of defending our already heavily shrunken territory.
I would say we can afford to lose POK for sometime before recapturing but we can't afford to have adventurer military led Pakistan alongside. I would say again eliminating Punjab from Pakistan is the more effective solution. We won't have any bigger hostile force around then. Even if there is any hostile force we find, they will take decades to match us. We can do alot in the meantime.
They don't share our vision our values. They don't cherish freedom or diversity. They are actually more opposed to it than Pakistan. How can we create a hostile Afghanistan for them?
Who cares about freedom and diversity. I am talking about the Durand line, the atrocities on pashtun's. Help them take back what belongs to Afghans from "Daal Khor" pakis. With Iran its definetly the Shia Sunni thing, how pakis undermine Iran in the region by supporting Turkey, keeping pakis in check is in their own interest, esepecially when there are massive anti shia rallies happening in pakistan.They don't share our vision our values. They don't cherish freedom or diversity. They are actually more opposed to it than Pakistan. How can we create a hostile Afghanistan for them?
How many Hindus and Sikhs remain in Afghanistan today. Wikipedia says just about 50. There used to be nearly 300,000 in late 90's reduced from 700,000 in 70s. Our soft power is such that we can neither ask from Afghans for non-muslim people's basic human rights nor can we ask others because we love to admire our independent policies that gives us only crap. While we love to celebrate their presence in India as if they are our brothers and sisters. But they (Hindus-Sikhs) have only one option to survive facing threat and that's leaving their motherland.
The decline of Afghanistan’s Hindu and Sikh communities
“I am an Afghan first… But if our life is under threat, if our families are faced with risks, we have to leave.”www.aljazeera.com
We can only try to exploit already existing issues between them. Afghanistan isn't a democracy. They don't give shit about individual freedom or minority. Even Pakistan is a heaven compared to Afghanistan for minority communities. So our friendship and goodwill is only as long as we are helping build Afghan, as soon as they find other alternatives, it won't be a hard choice for them. We will continue to have influence but we won't shape their policies regarding us.
They won't have a base to go back to if they do that, and all the boats in all their bases will be totalled in one go, and our missile launches need not even be from the sea.
History indicates that India's response has always been retaliatory.
