Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan 2021: Impact on India

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I was watching an interview of @FahimDashty with @bbcpersian. At one point the former's video disappeared. Instead, his satellite phone number was displayed on the screen. The BCC failed to ensure its anonymity. There are allegations that a drone traced has him via this number:



Fahim Dashti was killed by smart drone of Pakistan Air Force.

 
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You are right India can become major player in Afghanistan only if India re-capture Gilgit Baltistan
India could have become a major power in srilanka or Bangladesh. However it was only able to become a major player in Nepal. So much for a regional super power.
 

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I was watching an interview of @FahimDashty with @bbcpersian. At one point the former's video disappeared. Instead, his satellite phone number was displayed on the screen. The BCC failed to ensure its anonymity. There are allegations that a drone traced has him via this number:



Fahim Dashti was killed by smart drone of Pakistan Air Force.

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India could have become a major power in srilanka or Bangladesh. However it was only able to become a major player in Nepal. So much for a regional super power.
10 years is a life time in modern warfare and neglect of modernization of Indian defence forces during UPA for 10 years has left a catastrophic impact to India's warfighting capabilities. Had NDA not come to power in 2014, Ladakh vould very well have become a province on China by now.

So wait. The wrongs are being righted now.
 

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10 years is a life time in modern warfare and neglect of modernization of Indian defence forces during UPA for 10 years has left a catastrophic impact to India's warfighting capabilities. Had NDA not come to power in 2014, Ladakh vould very well have become a province on China by now.

So wait. The wrongs are being righted now.
The reference i made are strategic blunders not some tacticool failure & didn't happened during UPA. It happened over a period of 70 years of constant neglect(i am being generous here) willful or not. We sometimes make fun of packie 'strategic samajh' but overestimates ours.
 

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10 years is a life time in modern warfare and neglect of modernization of Indian defence forces during UPA for 10 years has left a catastrophic impact to India's warfighting capabilities. Had NDA not come to power in 2014, Ladakh vould very well have become a province on China by now.

So wait. The wrongs are being righted now.
India still can decimate Pakistan any day Conventionally
Even 10 years back
The budget of Indian armed forces is more than Pakistan national budget
Even CAPEX is huge

Security agencies certainly achieve many things
In Unconventional domain

One should not hid incompetence of are Top leadership in Military that they lack
Killer instincts

It's like Indian army lost its ruthlessness in peace of last 2 decades
 

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The reference i made are strategic blunders not some tacticool failure & didn't happened during UPA. It happened over a period of 70 years of constant neglect(i am being generous here) willful or not. We sometimes make fun of packie 'strategic samajh' but overestimates ours.
what are these strategic blunders?
 

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what are these strategic blunders?
Kashmir
Thats why India is hesitant to be fully committed with QUAD.
India knows very well that Russia will play double game. And after all India has to brunt the fallout as both Russia and India are in the same hemisphere not US.

Iran, China and Russia are the ones who are the most relieved countries with America's retreat from Afghanistan.
Quad my A*** india should go hegemonic statergically

And stop playing nice guy in the region

Start Hawkish approach in the region
Specifically putting small nations under
It's thumb

Even bangladesh ,Nepal and Sri lanka don't fear indian might let alone our enemies
 

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what are these strategic blunders?
Srilankan Tamil population turning against india, ethnic cleansing of hindus in Bangladesh, Chinese foothold on sl economy, Coup in Bangladesh and killing of mujib, complete islamisation of Bangladeshi population, return of 93,000 packie war criminals etc. These are not some tactical mistakes which resulted from lack of mod procurement, these are strategic blunders.Russia intervened in Ukraine when it felt ethnic russian are in harms way. If hasina goes eastern India will lit up
 

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Srilankan Tamil population turning against india, ethnic cleansing of hindus in Bangladesh, Chinese foothold on sl economy, Coup in Bangladesh and killing of mujib, complete islamisation of Bangladeshi population, return of 93,000 packie war criminals etc. These are not some tactical mistakes which resulted from lack of mod procurement, these are strategic blunders.Russia intervened in Ukraine when it felt ethnic russian are in harms way. If hasina goes eastern India will lit up
There is a insurgency for separate homeland of hindus of Bangladesh ,iam just saying
 

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Critisizing US for the debacle is true , they fucked up Afghanistan . But why blame them for Indian interest collapse.
It's us who don't have a definite foreign policy , we still flip flop between US , Russia and even non alignment under the garb of some non existent autonomy .
US is clear about their interest , our interest was based on piggy backing US so much so that we did not even had a back up plan for such debacle

But we also don't want to have a security partnership with US by allowing US boots on Indian soil.
Its us to blame period not anyone else and now is the time to choose , either Russia or US and choose firmly because when chips are down like today we will dance alone like headless chickens blaming others for the mess
 

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Srilankan Tamil population turning against india, ethnic cleansing of hindus in Bangladesh, Chinese foothold on sl economy, Coup in Bangladesh and killing of mujib, complete islamisation of Bangladeshi population, return of 93,000 packie war criminals etc. These are not some tactical mistakes which resulted from lack of mod procurement, these are strategic blunders.Russia intervened in Ukraine when it felt ethnic russian are in harms way. If hasina goes eastern India will lit up
Agreeing to a ceasefire when we had just managed to turn the tide in 1965 and we were just outside Sialkot.

Sometimes wonder if Russia managed to extract more in return than it offered to India.
 

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The govt is not sitting idle by maintaining the ceasefire with pakistan despite their actions in Afghanistan.

We have been forced into this situation.

The reason govt is unable to light up the LOC to put pressure on pakistan to some extent is because of the pressure that we face on our eastern borders with china.

Most of army us currently locked in a tense standoff with the PLA and has been constantly moving in more supplies and troops since last year.

Simply put we do not have enough resources to maintain two hot borders at the same time and the govt has done a great deal to work under the threshold of a direct conflict.

Escalation and miscalculation at LOC might put us in a direct two front confrontation which is something we are not prepared for.

It was only after the bulk of our army had shifted to the east did pakistan start redeploying it's troops towards the Afghan border.

Finally lack of any credible allies sealed the last few options we had.

We were in no situation to help the NA directly at any point and our only hope was other regional players who turned their back on us.
 

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IMO, Porkis in their moment of much elusive glory have crossed a very big line if below is true... they will pay for it for sure in a very big way ..

Let us see it happen. I don't see any harm coming their way after they were let off not once but twice for attacking the WTC.

The Headley saga only reaffirms the fact that the whore and her client can never be separated completely. They will keep meeting up now and then for a quickie all for old times sakes.

Same as India and Russia which pisses off Langley no end. :pound:
 

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