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This graph shows the inherent problem with Pakistani politics. Military leaderships are bound to provide higher short term growth since they bring about stability. Stability is at a premium in a third world nation and is as such hard to come by. Due to the incredible dominance of the Pakistani...

Good sir, there have been numerous posts dispelling your notions about some wholly transformed jf-17. The wholesale changes you are proposing are essentially requirements for a completely new platform. Redesigning large parts of the aircraft requires a huge financial outlay. The aircraft is...

It's ironic that the sanction proof nature of the jf-17 was a major selling point for Pakistan. What we didn't account for was the complete incompetence of our economic planners. As it stands today, the jf-17 is sanctioned for all intents and purposes. We are unable to procure it at a rate we...

Its amazing the misguided delusion that convinces such people to act in this manner. I wonder what is accomplished by killing innocent people? Ironically, the whole extremist movement takes advantage of the very freedoms they seek to destroy. That such people were not kept from even entering the...

The procurement of the J-21 depends on the economics, more than diplomacy. At this point, few would argue with the assertion that the Chinese are far more forthcoming with their technology than the Americans of yesteryear. Pakistan has access to relatively far more advanced Chinese platforms...

It is of upmost importance to identify the nation that is responsible for the escalation of the conflict. Because the blame must fall solely on said nation for raising the stakes. The North Koreans take the cake for this situation. Geopolitics is all about balance. When a nation tries to tilt it...

Could you share any observations you may have made looking at the general direction Boeing is taking. The canards are especially confounding to me; I have been under the assumption that they increase the RCS. A problem that should be easily avoidable considering how powerful contemporary...

Of course, your point was completely correct. So I felt I owed it to the subject at hand to present a more personal example: that even those with the best of intentions don't always follow through as they expect others to. It would have been very intellectually dishonest of me to agree with your...

I believe you made a point that is very important and I completely overlooked it in my haste to protest. In doing so, I may have opened up the fragile Pak-Indo relationship to the kind of ridicule I was standing up against. This is not an Indian issue, I cannot emphasize this enough. India is...

This topic blows my mind. To have the audacity to claim India should sentence millions of Pakistanis to pain and suffering from a perpetual drought requires a level of arrogance seldom seen even on this forum. All this to rectify a problem that is wholly a domestic issue and has no connection to...

I think many of us put too much faith in ISPR. In the end, PR firms, whether private or military, exist to artificially control the perception of their clients in the eyes of the public. In the never ending quagmire that is WoT, our losses have been so significant and so long standing that no...

If I may jump in here, into this most interesting of topics. I don't believe any sane individual would have had Musharraf make any decision post 9/11, other than to support America. In fact, 9/11 provided us with the golden opportunity to escape from the claws of extremism with the backing of...

You've brought up the very issues I find most disturbing. The lack of strategic depth virtually eliminates any truly defensive war right off the bat. From a theoretical angle, we can hold our own by fighting on our own turf. But Pakistan is so small east to west that nothing is out of the reach...

The concept of rape has nothing to do with western culture. To blame the west is to look to the same generalized thinking that allows us to stereotype people by color and ethnicity and use it to typify a certain kind of woman. I'd argue, rape has been prevalent since the dawn of man. In the same...

Actually, I agree wholeheartedly with you an Mr. Fatman. But considering virtually all of my posts have that same repetitive message, I felt I owe it to this forum to present a viewpoint that deviates at least a little from my usual rambling.

This is the most important post on this topic good sir. In modern combat, air superiority is the game changer, upon which the results of any conflict depend. Without wresting control of the skies from the adversary, no amount of ground forces, regardless of how advanced their capability is, will...

It's important to remain level headed in times good and bad. Much like the j-10 wouldn't suddenly give us air superiority over the IAF, it's absence doesn't doom us either. Does it leave us in a disadvantageous position? Absolutely, but that isn't the end of the world. If your fear is based...

See the problem with such claims is the impossibility of proving them. I can claim the Russians came and attacked and since they left without anyone noticing, people will be hard pressed to prove me wrong. Differentiating between the SSGs, the Army, and the paramilitary is far harder to do when...

There has to be absolutely nothing more depressing than the death of such brave men. To sacrifice everything in the hopes of accomplishing the near impossible requires the kind of courage absent within the leadership that led these men to their death and the common man. For every Pakistani...

It is generally a bad idea to judge nations as pure revenue generating entities. While Economics is the surest and most foolproof way to compare nations, its not a good idea to use it to make sweeping generalizations. One of the major reasons is the role of geopolitics. Where human emotions and...