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Should I quote your "Bleed by a thousand cuts" and conflate it to the actions by the Taliban? (okay, 85,000 cuts) Don't try to be a smart ***, you're not smart enough, except of course at making a joke out of yourself.

No self respecting Indian cares what the 'white engineer' thinks. He's not paid to please the 'white engineer'. The only thing he cares is how to get the job done to the satisfaction of the client and his manager, be him/her/it grey, green, yellow, pink or violet. And I assure you he/she does it...

The border was already in the process of being sealed last night. I believe the sealing has already been achieved, or at the latest will be completed by noon today. This will require a detailed investigation, because initial reports suggest that the army violated their own SOPs. If that is...

This decision to opt for a multitude of AAMs in both WVR and BVR catgory is a very carefully thought out strategy by the IAF. There are two primary reasons for this. 1. Ensuring availability of spares & maintenance for atleast a part of the AAM inventory at all times, including when under...

@Oscar, I have no doubts about the possible financial benefits this would accrue to Pakistan, and China. Everything fine about that; but that economic benefit was always a sideshow to the strategic entanglement that Pakistan sought with China against India. Is that a wise decision in the long...

Still worth more than the entire surface fleet of the mighty PN. Oh well actually worth more than the entire ship fleet of PN, including the submersibles. And yes, even saddled with the 'INS Floating Barrage', the IN is still better than the retirement home of decrepit ships worldwide i.e. the...

Oh I applied a very conservative figure for the suicide bomber. The average going rate is as little as $500 to $1000 for child suicide bomber. I know it's very hard to believe this. Iman never followed the typical terrorist path one imagines to be - indoctrinated from childhood in Saudi funded...

$500 Million? Unless RAW is trying to buy up the entire PN, or for that matter hire an entire army corps (or two) worth of muscle and arms, that's an extravagant amount, bordering on insanity. Let's put into perspective what $500 Million can do inside Pak. 1. A suicide bomber sells for roughly...

That analogy works only if Indians were 'dogs'. Unfortunately, according to certain esteemed members here, Indians or more precisely Hindus, are poisonous snakes (that deserve to be killed blah blah blah). And Snakes will often provide very visible warnings: hissing, raising the hood...

As ISI's illustrious history will tell you, that's hardly true. The history of ISI (and PA) has been a mix of desultory tactical brilliance mixed in with staggering strategic blunders. The only front where it has been able to present itself competently, and admirably at that, is maintaining a...

Do you know the value of 1 in 0.0000000001? That's precisely your (lack of) worth to me. Now that we are clear on the worth of your opinion to me, you may or may not choose to ignore me. Either way, your value can only diminish with time. . It is one of the more difficult questions to answer...

Precisely. And unlike a certain 'patriot', I can back up my claims with solid numbers, from the US GAO no less. G.A.O. is the US version of the Indian C.A.G. (all numbers below are in millions) This is the reason I had suggested on another forum that India go for a larger CV than go for a...

Not entirely correct. Diesel, or rather Steam was used to power the Kitty Hawk, which at 86,000 tons is significantly heavier than the proposed INS-Vishal. Further, the difference between the operational and maintenance costs between a CVN and a CV, over a period of 40 years still cannot...

You have no idea of the ruthless rivalry within Indian intelligence agencies, do you? MI had to fight tooth and nail to increase it's depth of intelligence into neighboring countries territory to 80 km from the allowed 20km, and that too was squashed by R.A.W. Also one reason T.S.D. fell...

TSD wasn't formed till 2008-09 in the first place. And as any senior intelligence official, both India and Pakistani will tell you, till very recently India couldn't even cobble up a dozen operatives inside Pakistan. I.K. Gujral had practically demolished the Indian intelligence set up inside...

The article is remarkably poor, especially given the standards set by The Diplomat. There are several flaws in the article, and several misleading facts, which need to be corrected. 1. There are currently over 900 T-90S tanks in service in India, not 500 as the article claims. Saurav Jha's Blog...

Then you thought wrong. Internal security duties are the responsibility of the state police and CAPF, both in the NE and J&K. This includes patrol duties, pickets, barricades etc. The army only undertakes reactive/proactive counter insurgency operations through the RR & S.F, under the unified...

Stuff happens in battle. Stuff that makes reality look more fiction than fiction itself. Heinrich Severloh a soldier in the German 352nd Infantry Division, which was stationed in Normandy in 1944. He was posted as an mg42 gunner in a bunker above the beach called (KM 62) “Widerstandsnest 62”...

Actually, not even SFC controls the nukes. That responsibility, and by extension, authority, lies with the D.A.E. The SFC holds authority over the delivery systems. That is one bewildering set-up designed to prevent any unauthorized launch of the nukes.

Oh, I understand now what you mean. My apologies for doubting you. But in my defense, I've always been a little slow in picking up social (and now apparently psychological and delusional) cues.