Remembering 26/11- Shall either forget nor will forgive

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Ex-NSA shiv shankar menon has written on "The Virtues of Restraint", using context of Israel-Hamas war.
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Ha ha ha. Making a virtue out of necessity into high sounding principles! Indian Armed Forces clearly told the PM of India/GOI that they wouldn't be able to hit anything because they didn't have Intel, or capability beyond the broad hammer of what Op Parakram had already tried.

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The Virtues of Restraint

excerpt from sandeep unnithan's article.

Why India didn't strike Pakistan after 26/11

Lt General Naidu also said he would rather wait for the army chief to return from South Africa on November 28. The navy did not have a swift retaliatory option either. Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said his forces were not ready yet and did not have a 'Cold Start' doctrine.
Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major held out the only option for swift retribution. The IAF could carry out air strikes on terrorist camps inside PoK within 16 hours, he said. But for the attacks to be successful and avoid collateral damage to civilians, he would need the exact coordinates of the terrorist training camps. The intelligence agencies did not have such precise information. The military option was postponed.
"If India was forced to terminate the war under international pressure, then it was not worth it," one official says. This last option too was discarded. It was found that the Indian military machine, hollowed by years of neglect, lacked the decisive conventional edge to localise a conflict.
 
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Ex-NSA shiv shankar menon has written on "The Virtues of Restraint", using context of Israel-Hamas war.
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Ha ha ha. Making a virtue out of necessity into high sounding principles! Indian Armed Forces clearly told the PM of India/GOI that they wouldn't be able to hit anything because they didn't have Intel, or capability beyond the broad hammer of what Op Parakram had already tried.
It always needs the will and intent from the top political echelon.

Shiv Shankar Menon and his ilk are/were all gandhiwaadi cucks advising PMO.
 

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