One thing confuses me is that why didn't we induct a few more T80UDs in the past!!! These highly versatile beasts form the backbone of our desert strike corps. For the price of a few F16s ,we could have formed another STRIKE CORP. I would be extremely happy if our Generals come out of this defensive mindset. Throughout the military history, offence has always been the best defence.
Maybe i might be jumping the guns a bit too early? PA with all these recent inductions from Italy,China,US and Others might be keeping a very very big surprise for the enemy,You never know!!!
Don't know I've always questioned our General's thinking of minimum deterrence and acquiring more defensive platforms than offensive maybe @PanzerKiel can give us more insight into this thinking since he's going through the process right now. Carl Von Clausewitz and later Prussian Commanders believed in Speed, Speed and Speed backed by a Total War Concept of using all of the national resources to reach the conflict's objective and attain victory. We've last 70+ years just been able to make the spear but not sharpen it and rather fight a war of attrition -- the Feb 27th 2019 is just another example of having the spear but not sharpening it and I agree with @MastanKhan that it was a lost opportunity to inflict pain on the enemy by letting the other 9 ACs go that were on lock, this sort of action rather helps embolden the enemy, I respect our officers in the armed forces, but this mantra of "Minimum Deterrence" has to go because you look weak and ineffective in front of the enemy.
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