i didnt mean blitzkrieg in the German sense, it only means lighting fast. Those US corps you mentioned rely heavily on air support,
Air-Land doctrine. Land formations forces the enemy to mass so that the birds have something to hit. It's part of the same package, not seperate from one another.
If one part is missing, ie land component as in the Kosovo War, the enemy disperses and bury themselves and effectively shielding themselves from air attack. I remind you that during the Kosovo War, only 12 pieces were destroyed and the 3JA was 85-90% still combat effective after 45 days of bombing.
The same thing at Karbala where US attack choppers were chewed up by Iraqi triple As when there was no ground component to drive them out.
Apples and oranges comparison here.
those 100 miles in 3 days is Iraq is nothing and hardly an achievement.
You've got to be kidding me! You want to ask the other two Indian Army Officers on this board about that? The good Major Deltacamelately and the Brigadier Ray?
Do you want know how many losses they had in the first few months of war in Iraq?? in the first 2 months they had 80 abrams damaged beyond repair, numbers are appualing for an advanced nation like the US.
I like to see a source for the beyond repair. As far as I can check, only two ABRAMS were written off, the others got shipped back to the US for factory repairs.
Aside from that, whenever you decide a bet between armour and engineers, always choose the engineers.
The fact is our Gurkhas are not even SOF, they are just an infantry regiment, we have many of such regiments, lets not even talk about Indian Special forces, they have no parallel in the world both in training and mission effectiveness.
They're light infantry and light infantry is always considered a step above physically to mech and motor infantry.
The fact is in places like AP on the eastern India, we have a lot of Chinese living in India and there is no difference in accent or looks. You wont know all these things till you go over there, i did go to these locations last year.
Ok, you're talking about civilian infiltration. You do know that is against the GC of which India is a signatory. Legally, they can be classified as spies and be shot on the spot.
The fact is bro i don't know how they do it in Canada, besides what does Canada know about war??
More or less in a similar standing with India. You know more in one area. We know more in another.
Indian army has often pulled impossible odds in many battles, so don't even begin taking about war with us.
Not India, you. And you will find Canadian military history is filled with as many exploits as yours. For one thing, we were a WWIII Army, as in my brigade was tasked to cover the retreat of VII Corps against 2 Soviet Armies.
sure they are not supermen and we'll still have losses, but he who dares wins. Except for the Chinese defeat which will never happen again, India has stood its own many a time.
And you will stand again, win again, and lose again.
India, in her history, has found some wars to be worth fighting and some not. I cannot see that changing for the future. You will find some wars worth fighting and some not.