Now is it a three front war?

[scorpionx]

The indian pm is not interested with the lives of indian fisherman of tamilnadu

Indian PM is not interested in anything rather an incoming call from Madamji.

 

[HongWu]

It's time to arm Myanmar just like we armed Pakistan! Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will also help bring down the elephant.

 

[agni 6]

It's time to arm Myanmar just like we armed Pakistan! Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will also help bring down the elephant.

You chinese have a pretty big mouth.Dont underestimate your enemy.That's what you Sun TSU taught you.Dont forget him in your arrogance.Even a week Government like ours should not be underestimated.For your reading plesure.

Asia Times Online :: India extends Malacca Strait reach

India extends Malacca Strait reach
By Sudha Ramachandran

BANGALORE - The commissioning of a naval base in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands will allow India to assert itself more forcefully in the Malacca Strait, one of the world's most important waterways and a relatively weak point in China's geopolitical strategy.

Indian Naval Ship Baaz, which means "hawk" in Hindi, was inaugurated last week at the Great Nicobar's Campell Bay as India's southernmost and easternmost naval air station. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a chain of 572 islands dangled across the eastern exit of the Bay of Bengal, are around 650 nautical miles away from Visakhapatnam, the headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command on the Indian mainland.

The Baaz station, at the southern end of the chain, allows India to



keep a hawk-like eye on the strategically important Malacca Strait, through which 80% of China's crude and oil imports from the Middle East and Africa must pass, along with fuel imports for Japan and South Korea.

Since adopting the "Look East" policy in 1990, Delhi has strengthened its diplomatic engagement and trade with Southeast Asian countries, and increasingly East Asian countries. The role of its navy in projecting power far from its shores is growing, driven in part by Indian ambitions to be a significant player in the emerging Asia-Pacific security architecture.

Indian media reports have drawn attention to the new naval air station's role in "countering China's moves" and keeping an "increasingly assertive" China in the Indian Ocean region under check. Indian analysts warn that robust Sino-Myanmar naval co-operation could at some time in the future translate into Chinese ships securing a more permanent presence in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean.



Although it is not a Malacca Strait littoral, India is contiguous to the strait. Indira Point - the southern tip of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands - is about 90 nautical miles from Indonesia's Banda Aceh. Baaz will improve India's capacity to monitor security of waters running into the Malacca Strait.

INS Baaz falls under the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC), India's first integrated air and sea command, set up in October 2001 as part of a national security revamp in the wake of 1999 Kargil conflict with Pakistan.

The setting up of Baaz must be seen in the context of the eastern command and increasingly the ANC as the focus for India's strategic planners, whereas in the past the navy's western command was considered as its sword arm. Hitherto, Carnic Island was the Navy's forward operating base in the region. Baaz, 300 nautical miles south of Carnic Island, will now become the new forward operating base.

While Baaz significantly enhances India's strategic reach, the development of a new naval station is part of an overall "island development plan" underway in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The islands are already home to naval bases at Port Blair and Car Nicobar, and air bases are fully operational at Diglipur, Port Blair and Carnic. As part of the plan, runways at Campbell Bay and Shibpur are being extended and three more operational turnaround bases for warships are being established in the archipelago. New airstrips are being constructed at Kamorta and Little Andaman, while the existing runways at Port Blair and Car Nicobar are being upgraded. The Indian Army, too, is moving to add another battalion to the 108 Mountain Brigade based there.

At Baaz' inauguration last week, Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma described it as being "blessed with a brilliant strategic location". Indeed, Baaz overlooks the Six Degree Channel, a strip of water separating India's Great Nicobar from Indonesia. Much of international shipping entering or leaving the Malacca Strait must pass through this channel.

The Malacca Strait, at 900 kilometers long one of the world's most important waterways, links the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea and Pacific Ocean as well as the economies of East Asia with those of the Middle-East and Europe. The strait's centrality to maritime trade is evident from the fact that 50,000 merchant ships and 40% of the world's trade sails through it annually.

At its inauguration, the naval chief said that one of Baaz' primary functions is to provide information based on airborne maritime surveillance. "Maritime domain awareness is the key to effective and informed decision-making in the maritime arena. Despite numerous advancements in the field of information gathering over sea, airborne surveillance, using aircraft and UAVs [unarmed aerial vehicles, or drones], remains invaluable," Verma said.

At present, Baaz is equipped to operate light to medium-sized aircraft capable of short-field operations from its kilometer-long runway. There are plans to nearly double the runway length.. The air station will soon start operating heavier military planes from the Indian Air Force fleet, such as the just-inducted Hercules C-130J Super Hercules meant for Special Forces' operations.

Besides facilitating India's monitoring of maritime and other vessels in the region, Baaz will guard against piracy. According to data provided by the International Maritime Bureau, piracy incidents in the Malacca Strait dropped from 38 reported incidents in 2004 to none in 2011. Still, the waterway's vulnerability to piracy or terrorist attack remains high.

Baaz will also enhance India's capacity to monitor its 600,000 sq km of exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Andaman and Nicobar region. The EEZ here is roughly 30% of the country's total EEZ and rich in resources.

In April this year, India commissioned INS Dweeprakshak ("defender of islands" in Sanskrit), a new naval base at Kavaratti in the Lakshadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea. Dweeprakshak and Baaz will now act as India's western-most and eastern-most sentinels situation on its territory.

Given the deep wariness of the Malacca Strait littoral nations to outside powers becoming involved in providing security in the strait, India has been careful to avoid stepping on their toes. It has preferred a co-operative approach that doesn't impinge on their sovereignty concerns.

India has also been engaging in greater maritime cooperation with South East Asian and East Asian countries, including the Malacca Strait littorals through the Milan series of naval exercises, co-operative patrols and other navy-to-navy linkages with them. The Indian navy has exercised with the navies of Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia since the early 1990s. Indian naval officials say that in the event of a crisis in the Malacca Strait, if its littorals were to request India's help, Baaz will be ready to become involved.

Sudha Ramachandran is an independent journalist/researcher based in Bangalore.

 

[agni 6]

And bully us too much the Weak government will start hearing reading a lot more of this



http://http://www.asianage.com/columnists/deterring-joint-china-pak-attack-259


To protect our territorial integrity, we need to change India’s “no first use” (NFU) doctrine to make it similar to that of Pakistan and China. India should declare that it may use tactical nuclear weapons in case its “red lines” are crossed.

In 2008, based on my four-decade-long experience in the Indian Navy and Coast Guard, small activities and border skirmishes caught my attention and, as I began studying them, I saw a diabolic pattern emerging.

Alarmingly, it all added up to Pakistani terrorists getting ready to carry out an attack on India by sea. On May 19, 2008, The Asian Age published my article, The next terror attack could be from the sea. The carnage of 26/11 took place six months later.
Fifty-one years after the disastrous 1962 war with China, India continues to pay the price for ignoring its defences, this time in Ladakh, where lack of infrastructure (there is still no road link from Leh to the eastern airstrip at Daulat Beg Oldi, and men need to march for six days across mountainous terrain to cover this distance), and lack of adequate force levels have left a vulnerability which is being exploited skilfully by China. Favourable flat terrain, excellent Chinese infrastructure and force availability means that Chinese troops can reach the disputed territory in eastern Ladakh in 12-24 hours.
The recent change of political leadership in China and Pakistan, along with the impending American withdrawal from Afghanistan, has resulted in more coordinated China-Pak activities along our borders. When Nawaz Sharif came to power on June 5, 2013, he immediately set up the “Kashmir cell”. Less than two months later, on August 2, 2013, bombs went off near our Jalalabad consulate. Now, studying the pattern of activities along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir (the August 6 killing of five jawans, firing along the LoC and the Kishtwar riots) and the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh (the April 2013 Depsang area faceoff, and present probes by the Chinese Army), I am once again worried that a joint China-Pak threat may materialise at very short notice, specially now that we are in “election mode”.
China, worried about the security of its proposed $18 billion “energy corridor” (oil pipeline, road and rail links) from Xinjiang province to Gwadar port via Karakoram mountains, has apparently decided that it needs to grab some disputed territory in eastern Ladakh, close to its proposed energy corridor.
Given the infrastructure and military capability in eastern Ladakh — armed Indian policemen and a few soldiers — the Chinese Army can launch an air-ground offensive with 10-20,000 motorised troops and 100-300 tanks to capture the entire area it claims as its own in north-eastern Ladakh in 48 hours. The border airstrips of Daulat Beg Oldi and Nyoma could be captured by Chinese helicopter-borne forces in a few hours, thus cutting off airborne logistics to eastern Ladakh. Active intervention by the Indian Air Force (IAF), even if approved immediately by the government, may have little impact on the outcome given the current force levels on both sides.
If it seizes about 1,000 sq km in north-eastern Ladakh, China would not only ensure security of its proposed “Karakoram-Gwadar” energy corridor, but also make our positions on the Saltoro ridge untenable — our troops would have the Chinese behind them and the Pakistanis in front.
If this crisis were to erupt, Chinese warships, submarines and aircraft would move to Gwadar port and airfield, thus nullifying peninsular India’s natural geographical advantage of being located astride China’s sea lines of communications, through which it exports goods and imports energy. Gwadar-based Chinese naval units could cut off Indian energy imports from West Asia.
In April 2011, Pakistan signed a contract with China for delivery of six Qing-class conventional submarines, expected to begin entering service by 2014-15. Each of these Qing subs will have the capability to fire three nuclear-tipped CJ-10 cruise missiles with a range of 2,500 km.
India’s leaders need to remember that in the 1998 Pokhran II nuclear tests, India tested four nuclear devices (of 0.2, 0.4, 0.8 kilo and 14 tons each), which would qualify as tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) for delivery against large enemy military formations invading our territory, including in Ladakh. These TNWs would deter a massive Chinese ground assault in eastern Ladakh, as they could decimate the invading force once it crossed into Indian territory. Of course, both China and Pakistan have TNWs, and will not hesitate to use them on India.
To protect our territorial integrity, we need to change India’s “no first use” (NFU) doctrine and make it similar to that of Pakistan and China. India should declare that it may use tactical nuclear weapons in case its “red lines” (eg. unacceptable loss of territory) are crossed. These TNWs must, of course, be inducted under strict control of the Nuclear Command Authority.
A hostile China-Pak adventure can only be deterred by nuclear weapons, political will and a new nuclear doctrine. Our Mandarin-speaking China experts and Punjabi-speaking Pakistani experts need to let professionals advise the government on security matters.

The writer retired as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam

 

[thesolar65]

Singularly, the two mischievous countries do not have guts to take on India. So they are fantasizing about bringing some others help. These two will not help each other even if there is one front war...

 

[Tshering22]

6 more months before these traitor morons are thrown out of the government. This issue better be settled peacefully.

Or else the new government next year will have to start off re-taking land one by one from each neighbour-- in the language they understand.

 

[TopCat]

What sensationalist BS headline is this?


As if Mynamar poses any military threat to India. The BSF alone could literally defeat Mynamar's military- they've got LFGs, aviation assets etc.

Dont mess with Burmese... China will kick your a$$

6 more months before these traitor morons are thrown out of the government. This issue better be settled peacefully.

Or else the new government next year will have to start off re-taking land one by one from each neighbour-- in the language they understand.

Send buddha there.. they only understand buddha talk

 

[Tshering22]

Dont mess with Burmese... China will kick your a$$

You worry about Chinese reducing you to a desert with their Brahmaputra plan, pet.

Send buddha there.. they only understand buddha talk

They'll come around eventually.