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Pious Statement, albeit off the tanjent. However, the matter isn't what Afghans want. Rather its all about what the US/NATO wants in Afghanistan.

The US intent is ultra clear. They want a Govt. in Afghanistan that promulgates progressive western values. They want the power of the war lords to vapourise. They want to ensure that the govt. remains viable and strong enough to quell any probability of the Talibs to ressurect. They want to...

muse, He needn't claim anything. He IS a Retd. Brigadier. And why are you disappointed? Your connivance in this forum is the vindication that you want to exchange views. Or is it the otherway out?

muse, Some real good read. Thanks. However it would have helped if you could have drawn a summary analysis.

That was a rude response to an otherwise poignant statement, I must say.

muse, Some corrections. 1. Hindu's don't call every shot in India. The society is very plural. 2. I am a sikh and am yet to witness any injustice and inequality on religious/casteist lines perpetrated by Hindus in todays world. 3. Naxalism is a problem that is political in nature, fomented...

This is not an isolated problem. Unless the belligerent Afghans stop getting patronage from their ideological Popes in Pakistan, the west will keep failing in ensuring a modern democracy with progressive values. Million dollar question is, is the US in a position to ensure that? Is the GoP...

Neo, Any comments on my reasoning about the retreat of the 40th Army?

Neo, The Soviet army was not trained or equipped for COIN exercises, and it never mastered the situation. Although it could mount offensives that temporarily seized control of any desired part of the Texas-sized country, it and the weak Afghan army were unable to maintain lasting control of...

That would vindicate all the allegations that the free world has been lodging on Pakistan vis-a-vis the Taliban and AQ. Nice recipe for the latest speculations on NATO/US attack on the rogues inside Pakistan.

Jana, You have put in the right words, only in the wrong sequence. We are mad at China for her hypocrisy, double talk and oppressive policies. We are sleepless when we think about Pakistan's governance, its terrorist incubators, Jehadi mindset, disturbances in FATA and Baluchistan, even Swat...

muse, Your learned Indian Academician is a postdoctoral fellow at the China and the World Program, Princeton University, and an affiliate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Her infatuation with the "Rising China" thingy is quite obvious. You just don't...

Neo would require your comments on this. However, from a personal pov, the author has highly exaggerated things. Breznev rode the high horse on a financially depleted Soviet GDP, same can not be said about the US, or could it be?

I assure you, you are not. :) That's exactly what the article is all about. The Soviet RT was excellent. No problems with that. The only problem was, the RT units were doing what the Infantry should be doing. The nature of the war demanded a lot of bellycrawlers with supporting RT as and...

AM, Any taboo thingy about the Kargil word here? I just posted something related before reading your post. regards,

Blain2, This is one was high level corruption involving some IA officers in their quest for making money through a much touted incentive scheme for claiming militants in the COIN exercises in J&K. Nothing to do with the PA. However, I'm sure that it must not have missed your eyes, how the...

What was that??? If anything, this is another truckload of puckey. No, not horse, that's better, this is sheep, therefore the sheepish acceptance. Total disprespect for the gallant soldiers who laid their life on the frosty Himalayans.

WM, My first reply to you since I joined. Being a Mod, would have appreciated a more detailed and realistic analysis from your end. The problem is not only deep but very subtle as well. Wish such oneliners could actually put an end to such altercations. Get this clear...Neither India nor...

A good article depicting the fruitlesness of superior, albeit inappropriate technology against a randomly mutating and dispersed enemy. Neo, Asim, AM your comments please.