Geography’s Curse: India’s Vulnerable ‘Chicken’s Neck’

[kaykay]

well even from Dolam valley, siliguri corridore is 150 km away. We have 3 divisions to protect siliguri corridore there with 2 major airbases.

 

[kaykay]

anyway here someone is posting 2007 article with wet dreams. Lols

 

[ares]

India has very strong defences in place in chicken neck corridor, more than n that terrain in siliguri
corridor heavily favors the defender.Chinese have no direct access to siliguri corridor, only way they can place troops there is either by para dropping or by entering through Bhutanese or Nepalese territory...conventional logic dictates attacking force will need a ratio of 7 is to 1 to overpower the defending force i.eEven if India is able to quickly deploy three division(assigned to protect this area,
It will require Chinese 21 division(700, 000 soldiers) to overrun Indian positions.

 

[kaykay]

Yes, it is only a 25 km distance that will cause your troops' position there vulnerable. This 25 km stretch will also cause your NE to separation.

I was talking about your teritory. Your teritory adjacent to narrowest place of chicken neck corridore is just 3-4 km wide and 25-30 km long. It'll hardly take our troops to cut this of your teritory within hours if not minutes. And except this our chicken neck corridor is more than 50 km wide at all places. Now how can you attack at chicken neck corridore when your attacking position is itself just 3-4 km wide and that too 25-30 km long more like tiny strip??? Besides that at one point your northern territory is just 80 km wide. Think about it before wetting your bed again. 15-20 brahmos will be enough to destroy all of your army formations in northern teritory.

 

[ebungo]

Why side should India take in case of Bangladesh- Myanmar war? ..

With Myanmar . supporting Bangladesh does;nt have any benefit for India ,they will always be against us if support them as we did 1971 result immigrant and harboring insurgent , and for Myanmar we will be connected to South east Asia through them .

 

[third eye]

Why side should India take in case of Bangladesh- Myanmar war? I think we should be neutral...

Correct, we shall nothing to do except try & pacify both.

 

[kinsr]

With Myanmar . supporting Bangladesh does;nt have any benefit for India ,they will always be against us if support them as we did 1971 result immigrant and harboring insurgent , and for Myanmar we will be connected to South east Asia through them .

No we cant do it, cant support either of them in case if they decide to fight among themselves. As of now BD is very important strategically for the over-all development of NE.We still do consider BD a friendly state.

But if BD want to commit hara-kiri by supporting an enemy of India then it will make our job easier of dividing their nation again at two points in north and east of BD. And once we achieve these pieces of real estate, this will help in development of NE states.

 

[eastwatch]

India has very strong defences in place in chicken neck corridor, more than n that terrain in siliguri
corridor heavily favors the defender.Chinese have no direct access to siliguri corridor, only way they can place troops there is either by para dropping or by entering through Bhutanese or Nepalese territory...conventional logic dictates attacking force will need a ratio of 7 is to 1 to overpower the defending force i.eEven if India is able to quickly deploy three division(assigned to protect this area,
It will require Chinese 21 division(700, 000 soldiers) to overrun Indian positions.

Mind telling us which conventional military doctrine here you are talking about? Can you give us some citation, please?

 

[Zabaniyah]

With Myanmar . supporting Bangladesh does;nt have any benefit for India ,they will always be against us if support them as we did 1971 result immigrant and harboring insurgent , and for Myanmar we will be connected to South east Asia through them .

Bangladesh and Myanmar going to war? Over what? They don't have any territorial disputes.

No we cant do it, cant support either of them in case if they decide to fight among themselves. As of now BD is very important strategically for the over-all development of NE.We still do consider BD a friendly state.

True. But then, free trade and regional integration remains a wet dream.

But if BD want to commit hara-kiri by supporting an enemy of India then it will make our job easier of dividing their nation again at two points in north and east of BD. And once we achieve these pieces of real estate, this will help in development of NE states.

And just how do you propose they achieve that?

 

[eastwatch]

With Myanmar . supporting Bangladesh does;nt have any benefit for India ,they will always be against us if support them as we did 1971 result immigrant and harboring insurgent , and for Myanmar we will be connected to South east Asia through them .

I thought you have learned how to read maps in your school days. Read the regional map again and come back with something practical to solve your trade problem with ASEAN. Alas, it is BD again that won't allow you to extend your hand to the ASEAN.

 

[Zabaniyah]

Mind telling us which conventional military doctrine here you are talking about? Can you give us some citation, please?

His assessment is not incorrect. The chicken-neck region is very sensitive, and hence heavily defended.

 

[Genesis]

His assessment is not incorrect. The chicken-neck region is very sensitive, and hence heavily defended.

So is Maginot Line, a lot of good that did.

But I will say this, the army stationed in Tibet is not great, the elites are in the Beijing and Nanjing region. The Tibetans will unfortunately get the short end of the stick.

 

[ebungo]

I thought you have learned how to read maps in your school days. Read the regional map again and come back with something practical to solve your trade problem with ASEAN. Alas, it is BD again that won't allow you to extend your hand to the ASEAN.

With or without Bangladesh ,we had road link up to Vietnam and beyond .And Rail link will soon be coming up .If Bangladesh join it is good for them ,if not we do'nt depend on Bangladesh to connect south east Asia,

 

[ares]

Mind telling us which conventional military doctrine here you are talking about? Can you give us some citation, please?

Do read about Force Concentration, and how it has been used in wars since beginning of times from Roman legions to Gulf wars. .

'Force concentration is the practice of concentrating a military force, so as to bring to bear such overwhelming force against a portion of an enemy force that the disparity between the two forces alone acts as a force multiplier, in favour of the concentrated forces.'

Traditionally it is accepted that a defending force has a 3:1 advantage over an attacker.Hence In normal terrain to achieve force concentration an attacking force should be at least three times as large a the defending force, however this ratio increases when defender has favorable terrain eg India had to use 7:1 force concentration to evict Pakistani troops in Kargil.

 

[UKBengali]

I was talking about your teritory. Your teritory adjacent to narrowest place of chicken neck corridore is just 3-4 km wide and 25-30 km long. It'll hardly take our troops to cut this of your teritory within hours if not minutes. And except this our chicken neck corridor is more than 50 km wide at all places. Now how can you attack at chicken neck corridore when your attacking position is itself just 3-4 km wide and that too 25-30 km long more like tiny strip??? Besides that at one point your northern territory is just 80 km wide. Think about it before wetting your bed again. 15-20 brahmos will be enough to destroy all of your army formations in northern teritory.

The ultimate BD military build-up should get to the point that BD will be able to use the "chicken-neck" to cut
India in two and then be in a position to hold in the West for a few weeks while the North-Eastern states are invaded by the BD army.