Attacks aren’t happening in Baluchistan alone, they are also happening in the tribal belt areas. And not all attacks are on bases, actually if militants are attacking military bases, it’s much worse than anyone could have imagined. It mean attacks are no longer hit and run, ambush type engagements but rather the militants own the initiative and can attack the military inside their bases. Again, much worse situation.
pakistan army has been slow to react to the militancy threat and thus has given them the space to reorganize and reassert themselves.
Yes, better IFVs will absolutely help and reduce the causality rates being exerted on PA personal.
The tribal belt attacks are cross border…and again, if you’re ready to pay for heavy IFVs, contact GHQ. I know it’s pathetic to put a value on the life of a soldier, but that’s the reality of the world.
And no, them attacking “bases” is nothing new, because they’re not bases, they’re far out checkpoints in areas where it’s difficult to get the soldiers support. It’s not like our enemy isn’t well funded.
It just shows you haven’t taken the time to study what’s actually going on in these regions. What are they gonna “hit and run” exactly? The convoy or patrol covered by the attack helicopters? Did you see what happened a week ago when they tried that?
Of course they will go for the few isolated soldiers they can pick off. Have you seen the amount of casualties suffered by the US army in Afghanistan and other such regions? They are the best equipped army in the world and it does them no good at all. Also many of the men we lose are lost in Ops…
Again, i feel extremely pathetic to be trying to justify the loss of our men, but we don’t know the reality of what it’s like in those areas, and if the world was ideal I would give them all the equipment I possibly could, Drones, Heavy IFVS, you name it, but it wouldn’t change the precarious situation on the ground.…as is shown by every counter-insurgency op in the world, Wether it be from a well funded army or a poorly funded one.
PA leadership and the generals have obviously shown incompetency and made mistakes in the past too, they are human after all, some of them are corrupt/incompetent by nature as well, but they’re not the main issue here. Pakistanis are barking up the wrong tree in regards to this problem. We give our troops IFVs and then what? The terrorists just stop? No, they will find ways to counter that, because until the government, the people and the traitors inside the nation stop selling out our troops to the enemy, both local and foreign, nothing will ever change. The PA cannot shoot this problem away or use armor to defend itself from it until it is killed from the root. Something which a Jawan or a general doesn’t control, but the entire nation does, and the nation is certainly not doing itself any favors currently. That’s what we should all he complaining about and trying to fix. Not drones and IFVs, they are a temporary solution…
I swear Pakistanis are the only nation which fight a war and expect only the enemy side to lose soldiers.
since they are running for there life in Afghanistan now )
