What a disgrace these past few years have been. We used to have brave men like Noor Khan in our military who took AAA magnet like C130 to iok to resupply our men and now little princesses are scared to use gunships in missions they are designed for.
1. First, we should ask what the commander himself has done to defend his post. Its not that he faced air attack or artillery. A post sitting on a mountain top is very easy to defend...provided you have weapons and plenty of ammo.
when you have thousands of posts, small posts...then you cannot have a drone for every post.
There are many instances in Afghanistan, and before that as well...Iraq and Vietnam where either entire US posts were overrun or they took heavy casualties.
Agreed....however, an RPG salvo would be a bit tricky to handle...probability increases then.
Some respectable members claim it’s war and casualties are part of it, and I agree. The issue is, we are more protective of the equipment than the soldiers they are supposed to protect in this war. For instance, we have a sizeable number of MRAPs but you’ll find them in Lahore, Karachi and other cantonments catching dust (I have pictures) but not in Balochistan. Our supposed rescuers (QRF) are also sitting ducks if they can be stopped by gunfire and SVDs. And we need to send a QRF to save our QRF. Informed members claim helicopters were told not to venture into that territory due to enemy presence, who should protect our guys if all our assets are so vulnerable? We literally waited for the enemy to leave before we could move in to our own territory. We were supposed to strike fear into the hearts of our enemies but what we see is the opposite with statements like our helicopters are very Nazuk, QRF got ambushed, presence of enemies deterred our aviators etc. Imagine how confident this enemy has gotten by staying there for 5 hours, thanks to how we have handled attacks of very similar nature in the past. I find it hard to believe that we do not have a single asset that can go into our own territory at a time of our choosing to take on 50 AK 47 and RPG equipped terrorists. And if we really don’t, I hope we procure it the earliest possible or else we might keep loosing soldiers as our currents assets are incapable (according to some).
PAF isn’t even the issue here. They’re not dependent on Army to provide FACs. They’ve their own ISR and/or hunter/killer birds. Someone would need to ask them, yes.
1) There have been far too many attacks in the past months that require some introspection whether its the commander who isnt defending his post either due to poor training or lack of ammo but we will have to give them the benefit of the doubt after all these men laid their lives in the process, did not surrender, did not laid their arms down. So forgive me if i am unable to question the commander and his men's commitment to defend their post.
That should give you some idea about vastness of area vs availability of assets in whole of Balochistan. Troops to space ratio is really that bad.
Either you guys are simple Sams believe every nonsense being posted on social media these days or CNN has extended their services to you for reporting from ground zero.
Yes! it does however how do we plan on overcoming this?
Its a delicate thing...you cant pull more troops from east or from other areas for obvious reasons. FC is being greatly expanded.....it would augment...
In your opinion but i rather not live my life as a robot devoid of self thinking.
