India Should Keep Pakistan Embroiled and Draw it Into An Arm's Race

[MastanKhan]

India Should Keep Pakistan Embroiled and Draw it Into An Arm's Race

By Mohan Das Menon

Published: 20th June 2015
India’s current strategy should be to keep Pakistan embroiled in such a way that its economy is adversely affected and it is unable to sustain the strategic parity that has existed over the years. It should draw Pakistan into an arms race at a time when its economy is entering a stabilisation phase and is poised to move into the growth paradigm. It should force Pakistan to spend more on defence and making waging war against India uneconomic and counter-productive.


Menon is a former additional secy,Cabinet Secretariat

India Should Keep Pakistan Embroiled and Draw it Into An Arm's Race -The New Indian Express

Hi,

It is not a very intelligent post ----. India will have to do a massive purchase to be at a stage to take out Pakistan and that is technically and geographically not possible---.

Pakistan is a shorter ways away from reaching its necessary force level due to its fast pace procurement and maturing of older project. OTOH---all indian major products have failed---.

If there is any further disturbance in Pakistan pointing fingers to india---india may see retaliation where it may financially hurt.

Indian posters must realize it is better to have peace---now---than go for war---.

Regardless of what happened in 1999----Pakistan---during sanctions---at its weakest started a war----. Now at this stage Pakistan military is 10 times more potent with all the procurement it has made to fill up the void created by the sanctions----. All arms of the military are properly equipped and there is no shortage of anything---.

As India is advertising to the world of striking Pakistan---same thing is Pakistan doing telling the foreign govts that Pakistan also may strike if it feels the threshold of the threat has been crossed.

My recommendation to the pak military and govt would be to not make any statements of how they are going to act or retaliate---just keep quiet and keep on procuring what is needed---and if things start to happen then let them and retaliate accordingly----threats of nuc strikes should not be made---just let the Indians talk as they might want to---.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

The India Pakistan RACE is OVER

 

[cerberus]

scrapped rafaele deal due to lack of funds,

Lack of Funds it was Saved and Used for Indigenous Projects As Stated By DM 50% of Rafale deal value will be invested in India: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar - The Economic Times

 

[salmanACCA]

Thats why your tejas is on the back of a truck

 

[xyxmt]

at last true colors of short dark evil yaindoo baniya india are exposed by there own again as how they are trapping pios and peace loving people of land of the purest of pure

yakeen janiye Gazwa e hind me iska bhi hisab liya jayega

I dont know who is trapping who, a country with only 7 billion defense budget or a country with almost 50 billion.
looks like brain's analytical power stops as soon as you go across the borders from Pakistan. Maybe shortness and darkness have something to do with it or maybe its Banya pana.

Thats why your tejas is on the back of a truckView attachment 231278

its a stage plane, people come to a stadium to look at it.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

Regardless of what happened in 1999----Pakistan---during sanctions---at its weakest started a war----. Now at this stage Pakistan military is 10 times more potent with all the procurement it has made to fill up the void created by the sanctions----. All arms of the military are properly equipped and there is no shortage of anything---.

SO you believe that After 1999 ; India has been sleeping

 

[cerberus]

It is not a very intelligent post ----. India will have to do a massive purchase to be at a stage to take out Pakistan and that is technically and geographically not possible---.

Hi,
Pakistan In its Present Scenario can't Match India In Conventional War That's Why the Nuclear Card Always Pitted on the Table By Pakistani Establishment.its Time India Call-off this Bluff

Pakistan is a shorter ways away from reaching its necessary force level due to its fast pace procurement and maturing of older project. OTOH---all indian major products have failed---.

Pakistani Ways Are Pretty Much outdated and Don't Have any Strategical Impact on the Ground.JF-17 is Example of this its a Outdated Concept Have No Impact on Power Ratio Btw Two Forces.

All Rest your Points are Filled With Chest Thumping &Gloating Specially "All Indian Projects are failed"Line Was Epic And Has No Factual Analysis of ground

 

[Mo12]

India needs to stop worry about Pakistan and concentrate on beating other countries like China and Japan by GDP.

And Pakistan needs to worry about reducing terrorist attacks.

 

[xyxmt]

Maybe Pakistan is trapping India to keep spending on defense and keep their public toilet less

 

[Levina]

it would be smart if india itself could afford to be in an arms race lol.

To an extent you're right, both India and Pakistan would get zilch out of the arms race that we are competing in, we can not afford a war.

 

[coffee_cup]

Haha... the world saw your brains when you lost half your country in the silliest way imaginable. Please, teach us more about your brains.

Hearts... yes your 90K troops that surrendered showed a lot of heart, now show us more of that heart.

Third word talk by a Pakistani.



Willfully ignorant, just as I expect of Pakistanis.

Besides, a war is not even being discussed here. Try to keep up.

Yes my first world ( ) , very vedic intelligent friend, lets face the facts for once.

Pakistan had internal problems, India took full advantage by financing and training terrorists and East and West Pakistan, which were already separated geographically by India, went their own ways.

It was 44 years ago, a majority of Pakistanis on this forum were not even born then. But we have learned to move on. Can you hyper emotional indians now come out of your complexes and move on as well?

When it comes to fault lines, India has far too many compared to Pakistan. Address those instead of having a sick obsession with Pakistan.

And then they say, they don't care about Pakistan,

 

[cerberus]

Thats why your tejas is on the back of a truckView attachment 231278

EaT This Oops No Youtube

 

[IND151]

scrapped rafaele deal due to lack of funds, tejas is a total failure, only 50% mki are operational, indians tank is a total disaster, one fighter jet crashes every month ....good job done i must say

WE are buying 36 Rafales and more will follow.

tejas is a total failure

Cute. Thats why there is firm order for 120+ LCAs while more are bound to follow, right?

 

[ito]

Maybe Pakistan is trapping India to keep spending on defense and keep their public toilet less

Pakistan should do trap India. I agree with you.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

To an extent you're right, both India and Pakistan would get zilch out of the arms race that we are competing in, we can not afford a war.

Actually, an arms race is benefiting India. In the short run though.
With the Make in India initiative, many domestic players are now getting top Army and Navy contracts. Good business - better demand - more employment.

I don't know much about Pakistan's budgets when compared to India so can't compare. But Pakistan must be in a much better state as far as their economy and military is concerned as illustrated by the Pakistanis posters here.