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That is how a cadet is suppose to respond. As he is being groomed for junior officer tasks, he is suppose to carry out orders, just that! He is not the strategy maker. Not yet. Later, military officers will be trained in foreign countries like US, France, Germany, Australia, UK, China, Malaysia etc. Pakistan military officers have been among top graduates of these institutions for a very long time. They are trained very well.
Pakistan will not be isolated. US will continue to engage Pakistan as its ally. There is growing sense in US establishments that sanctions don't work well with Pakistan. Pakistan has ways to work around them and in doing so gets further pushed into Chinese influence. And recently into Russian influence may be. Saudi influence is also something US wants to curtail. Arms industry also sees Pakistan as a market. While they will not like to transfer technology they will happily sell. Yes even today, Eurofighter is on offer to Pakistan, with strings attached. They are all too aware that Pakistan will procure weapons at whatever cost. More blockage of military hardware pushes Pakistan to develop its own arms industry with Chinese, Russian and Turkish help and Saudi money. This pushes Pakistan in their influence further. That not only kills their market, it also produces competition when Pakistan starts to export these weapons. Not a good scenario for them. So they will continue to engage Pakistan in a way to meet it's minimum defence requirements and keep some sort of military balance in region.
US and West is also way too aware that sanctions have created way too much hatred in common people of Pakistan. In fact Hillary Clinton in her testimony to congressional committee said F 16 has become a symbol of US betrayal to Pakistanis. We should not have withheld those birds. It is printed on Pakistani memory as they have loved their F16 so much.
As of today, Eurofighter, F16, J10 and Grippen are on offer. If India drops Rafael, France will offer it without much hesitation. But they are not the full package that we are looking for. Just for one have faith. PAF commits mistakes, sure it does. But out of all three arms of military, it has been the best so far. It has outperformed others in wars. This happened while having to live under the shadow of much powerful Army.
The years you talk about like 2002-2005. Well Gen Mushshraf had resented PAF since Kargil. He has tried put blame on PAF for his planning failures. PAF was not even part of this plan to start with. Qaiser Tufail has testified to that.
Given what they have and the limited space they can wiggle in, PAF does a fine job.
HI,
The proof is in the pudding----the way that pak officers---let me say the general staff have acted---it does not show too much confidence in their abilities.
Grippen is not available for whatever reasons- anymore----and there s no reason to get it---F 16's we already have---Eurofighter has ways to go----.
You know what your attitude is---what your post says about Pakistan--it is that of a BOTTOM FEEDERS---you don't do your job in time---you have the opportunity of getting ahead of problems and yet you chose to fail---. And it is becoming a habbit of yours----you intentionally fail and then you cry about sanctions.
Musharraf and the nation should have reamed PAF----. PAF failed not because of sanctions but because of a someone who was supposedly too honest.
Even though there were American sanctions----French aircraft were available to paf---. The purchaser screwed up. Pakistan never needed the F16's---their mirages were good enough to take on anything that the Russians were flying across the border from afg---and know that they did---the first Russian aircraft were shot by the pak mirages---.
The initial purchase of F16's was a total blunder by the paf and Pakistan could never get out of the failure that paf forced it into.