R Wing
SENIOR MEMBER
- Joined
- May 23, 2016
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The top brass is to blame.
If they had been less busy with politicking and real estate management, we would have had a STRATEGY to deter RAW-backed proxies.
The only way peace is achieved, as any realist will tell you, is through deterrence. Deterrence works primarily through costs and pay-offs. Therefore, peace = raising the cost for RAW to engage in such activities.
We failed to do that. The top brass chose a backfoot posture based on DENIAL, not the kind of DETERRENCE we needed. In denial (as Ajit Doval will confess), you may stop 18 rocks thrown at you but 1-2 will still get through. And the rock-thrower is not deterred. You can kill its hired guns, but there is still no fear of consequences in the RAW officer's heart.
He knows he's safe, he knows there will be no reprisal tit-for-tat in his country (as there should be), and he knows we will keep sacrificing our sons going after tactical success at the expense of sound strategy.
I greave and cry for these brave souls deployed at the border without a broader game plan to deter India. GO AFTER THE SOURCE TO PROTECT THE SONS OF OUR SOIL!!!
If they had been less busy with politicking and real estate management, we would have had a STRATEGY to deter RAW-backed proxies.
The only way peace is achieved, as any realist will tell you, is through deterrence. Deterrence works primarily through costs and pay-offs. Therefore, peace = raising the cost for RAW to engage in such activities.
We failed to do that. The top brass chose a backfoot posture based on DENIAL, not the kind of DETERRENCE we needed. In denial (as Ajit Doval will confess), you may stop 18 rocks thrown at you but 1-2 will still get through. And the rock-thrower is not deterred. You can kill its hired guns, but there is still no fear of consequences in the RAW officer's heart.
He knows he's safe, he knows there will be no reprisal tit-for-tat in his country (as there should be), and he knows we will keep sacrificing our sons going after tactical success at the expense of sound strategy.
I greave and cry for these brave souls deployed at the border without a broader game plan to deter India. GO AFTER THE SOURCE TO PROTECT THE SONS OF OUR SOIL!!!