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What kind of death are you referring to - military or economic? If you are referring to the military aspect, then death is death, whether nukes or conventional. India has said that it will retaliate massively, so how can death be avoided? Or do you think that use of tactical battle field nukes...

It is common knowledge that the economic rise of a nation is accompanied by narrow nationalism. I am not anti-BJP like @Joe Shearer , and am against Rahul Gandhi and his immediate ilk. But while appreciating some positive things that Modi has done, one cannot ignore the negative aspects, the...

It will take a longer time for India to become what you suggest, that too provided the same line of thought prevails. There are negative things going on like politicization of the IA top brass, and getting these types of people in higher positions; these people can eventually become 'yes men'...

Thanks for your explanation. But Indian paramilitary forces did not take part in this, IA did. And Indian paramilitary forces may not be a good option to send, and they may not do well as well as Maoists and Taliban are different. Anyways...

Regarding Doklam, I do not think that we were less aggressive than China because we are more mature, rather i say that we were forced to be relatively much quieter and appear mature because we know China is a lot more powerful economically and militarily than India. And as you said, we value...

Sir, I respectfully disagree with your opinion of nuclear devastation. You may be saying that since nuclear weapons are your mainstay to blunt Indian conventional superiority, but on the other hand we wish to take advantage of this conventional superiority and so nuclear options are less...

Sir, does you post explain why IA contingent caused civilian casualties in the simulated assault as the enemies were not Kashmiris? I'm not much versed with army training/mindset; i say stuff as per my limited interpretations. I just think that IA has less experience that PA/NLI for this type of...

By north-east i also included parts of Uttar Pradesh. To many in the regions where i am from, UP people are sometimes referred to as bhayyas.

IA conducts search (and intimidation) operations in villages - villages that are not in control of terrorists, only part of the population may be sympathetic to them. It is different from a fast-paced infantry assault into enemy territory. Your forces had to do that since they had to liberate...

That may explain their better performance (civilian casualties) vis a vis IA for such an assault type task.

Well it could be because PA has gone through a hard fought and quite successful COIN operation with such situations which makes them better than IA for such an infantry assault type exercise. Were NLI involved in COIN along with PA or their deployment makes them more proficient in such operations?

That doesn't fully explain why Indians should be subservient and not Pakistanis. It can be argued that the British smashed the confidence of Muslims as they took power from them completely. Maybe as you suggested (?) the regions bordering Afghanistan, and Balochistan were unaffected by British...

Such an attitude of Indians is believed to be a part of states bordering and close to Pakistan (of course not limited to just these states). Since there is some degree of cultural similarities between Indian and Pakistani bordering regions, is such subservience not a part of Pakistanis? Maybe...

Implicit in @randomradio 's statement is that such a deal, if actually made, is quite some time off. UAE may only be interested in LCA MK2, which will be ready for serial production many years from now.

Argentina is getting a $ 50 billion loan from IMF, a bit less than 5 times what Pakistan is seeking. Is $ 10 billion that high? Seems to be more of a prestige issue. CPEC terms needs to be more transparent and not tilt uncomfortably towards Chinese firms. I think that there is no reason to...

True - that's an important point. But maybe this is the case for the most widespread religions. There is a very popular goddess Kali in Hinduism. She is depicted as dark-skinned and more tribal in form. Another popular goddess Durga is depicted as fair-skinned. A theory goes that Durga is the...

Density of beautiful women, as per accepted definitions, are much more common in Pakistan than India - this i accept. As you said there are some regions in India that also have more such beautiful women. However i am not fully convinced of the argument that it is wrong to consider fair skinned...

Thanks @Oscar and @Quwa for your detailed replies. That shows your understanding or rather the lack of it about the reasons behind Indian strategic thinking. Fundamentalist Hindu mindset does not influence strategic decisions here, and these decisions change and coalesce over decades. Sure i...

For protection Indian airspace against PLAAF, why doesn't India also adopt the same strategy PAF adopts? USAF will not be so hard pressed to fight IAF. Had it been so difficult for USAF then IAF will also find it very difficult to penetrate Pak airspace even with newer Indian acquisitions. Then...

Which then begs the question - what does PAF think about offensive operations given that very few blk 52+ are available. Since PAF is getting a large number of JF-17, it seems to me that in spite of all the other assets PAF has, they consider it to be a challenge to thwart IAF offensive...