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You could always just let the agency whack them. Surely these "safehouses" are bugged given the said agency's proclivity towards political interventionism (which requires political intel, ergo the bugging of houses belonging to political leaders).

Well we've come a long way in effective mobilization of our forces since Op Parakram. Today Nasr has become an important tool in the PA's toolkit because the IA can quite quickly mobilize and reach places like the Marala headworks while establishing fire superiority. The MHA would throw a fit...

Not very surprising. Yes it is better to err on the side of caution. After all the temptation to let the inner beardo out can always overpower his ilk at the best of times. Hopefully Zarb e Azab will yield the required results. Dunno when the cities will cleaned up though. I wouldn't be...

At least he didn't try and justify it, so there is some smidgen of humanity left. I was in this backwater in Orissa when the attack took place. All the folks in the hotel were horrified to say the least. Disgraceful tactic.

Btw, hopefully Zarvi and his ilk did not try to spin the Peshawar attack?

Hopefully there won't be legal loopholes this time, or prosecution lawyers being gunned down.

I am not arguing about the visibility of the move. I am referring to the MoD's inability to do what is needed. Please refer to the findings of the Standing Committee on Defence where no less than the VCAS himself made it abundantly clear that the MoD had not sanctioned the required funds, hell...

Due process should not be ignored. Unless its Zarvi and there are no witnesses, in which case just punch his ticket. Dunno how much good it will do, hanging these terrorists, but it is much better than just letting them go. Terrorism being the sort of thing which obviously has high recidivism...

Either way ad hoc decisions do not serve anyone well. The lack of planned expenditure as opposed the prevalent ad hoc spending has played a major role in derailing the IA's LTIPP. If you don't have periodic strategic reviews which lead to planned expenditure plans (which are followed through)...

@Koovie @The_Sidewinder That's not exactly the crux of the issue. Any new corps or formation takes time to raise, make battle ready and deploy. The issue being highlighted here is the fact that the army has had to dip into the war wastage reserves in order to arm the new formations. Is this...

Nope. Its the MoD's assessment. And for good reason. Now to be fair, taking HAL out of the reckoning was never an issue. HAL or ADA or DRDO has enough on its plate. BUT the aircraft in contention is the problem. It simply does not fit as a one on one replacement for the Avro, specially given the...

Refer to my reply to BDforever.

You were trying to, there's a difference. I hear you almost drowned as you tried to sneak into Kolkata's port. :partay:

I was deep cover in BD. Helping out Hasina and securing Bangladesh's future so that folks like you can breath easy. :p:

Kya hogaya buttsy? Not getting any kebabs between your buns?

Take that stick out of your kiester. Its been months, how goes life?

Is that how you welcome back a long lost friend?:mad:

Given that the MOD is now questioning the very need for a replacement of the avros with the selected aircraft (not to mention the ever dreaded single vendor situation) TATA is going to be sore for a while. :p:

Not particularly. A lot of people think that a seaworthy amphib can be simply derived from a carrier, its not that simple. There are challenges involved. Trying to pack an appreciable number of men and stores on a ship with a well-deck and hangar/garage facilities will require major internal...

Now that's a much better perspective.