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Just because common sense is not someone's cup of tea doesn't mean everyone else has to tolerate that idiot's idiocy as his freedom of expression. If those men of NLI held no advantage, they'd have been smashed through that mountain out the other side before the Sun set on Day 1, martial...

It, meaning the huge manpower expenditure, would probably be more 'justifiable' if there really were 1.2 million troops in the IA, even including reserves. That 1.2 million number is fallacious, something that for all intents and purposes exists only in the statistics; a practically meaningless...

The low peak altitude of Helicopters (as compared to fixed wing aircraft) isn't typically due to performance issues of the engines at high altitudes. The helicopter engines, it must be understood, are basically modeled on the ones affixed to the fixed wing aircraft, which are adequate to cruise...

This is purely a bureaucrats description of the MoD. There are three groups of bureaucrats wrt the Rafale deal in the MoD: 1. The group of (self professed) patriots that are scrupulous about funds and do not want the 'overpriced' Rafale. They are also worried about the CAG doing a 2G on them...

The external affairs minister Shushma Swaraj chaired a meeting with former Indian ambassadors to Pakistan in a bid to fine-tune the Pakistan strategy after the Pathankot incident. Interestingly, and this is somewhat rare, there was unanimous support for continuing the talks. However, it is now...

You do realize that if you, or anyone capable of, were to actually implement that 'marvelous idea', a good part of Pakistan, no, make that the most fertile part of Pakistan, is going to be swimming in an unadulterated soup of fresh radiation. It's almost collective euthanasia, except it would be...

You are looking at it in the wrong way. The "Neva’s plans include either the design of the ship as a whole, or several of its individual components" is basically a tacit acceptance that they expect to be requested to provide consultancy for only a part of the ship; my assumption being the...

He is at least partially correct; the final assault on Tiger Hill was supported by over 400 guns and heavy mortars, believed to be the biggest concentration of artillery fire since WWII.The Bofors gunners, there were 120 Bofors, found that in the rarefied atmosphere of Kargil it could lob shells...

Both the sets of data can be correct without contradicting the other. In fact, there is no apparent contradiction between the two. The new methodology for GDP calculation analyses data from 500,000 industries that exist now; the earlier from 5,000 which existed in 2004-05. What the BofA-ML...

Decimation is described as the loss of 1/10th of the forces; In Kargil, every fourth Pakistani soldier (25%) who occupied Indian positions died. So technically speaking, they were slaughtered. Granted a good many of them were killed while they were attempting to retreat, but that's beside the...

Comments such as yours do great disservice to the actual men who fought and supported the operations on the Pakistani side. The egregious decision making at the very top reeked of incompetence; so much so, in any other army the commander would face court-martial. The autopsy of several NLI...

This comment, and comments of this nature are generally intended to be presented in exaggerated light, to be used as a prodding tool to coerce the government towards a certain action. Arundhati Roy's vitriolic comments are a prime example of this, intended to stoke public reaction. It would...

Well, unfortunately in this case, the BPJ does need to be apportioned a significant part of the blame. The standard BPJ of the IA was intended to provide all round protection to the neck against 7.62x39 at 10m. Unfortunately, the design is flawed; the BPJ is a loose fit around the neck, so much...

That opinion almost certainly comes from the learned offices within the civil services in Bihar. The predominant opinion resonating among-st this particular group is that the result will be decisive, whichever way the pendulum swings.

Got to love it when ignorant amateur arm-chair Field Marshals decide they know every aspect of war (or in this case ISR and order dissemination). Well at the very least, I must say it's amusing to read the fanciful versions of war some artists of imagination manage to sketch up. It's another...

Well not really. People are looking at the correct catalog of actions, but making entirely different and irrelevant deductions. The military is really testing out the Pro-active defense Doctrine; a novel term which is basically a marriage of the different concepts of very large scale operations...

Not confirmed, but some reports are suggesting a rocket attack on an observation post. That'd be probably a RPG-7 shell, but could be anything from Carl Gustav to an ATGM. If proved, this may warrant an unusual escalation in retaliatory firing, even though rocket attacks are not all that...

It's neither persistence nor stubbornness, it's just the slow realization in South Block that no meaningful negotiation is possible under the current circumstances. For one, Nawaz Sharrif has no political capital to invest in any negotiation on any topic at all with India. Two, by invoking again...

The Indian experience in NE, the British experience in Ireland and their numerous colonies, and the French in their African and Far East Asian colonies all independently came to the conclusion that a determined, motivated and fairly well supplied insurgency could not be crushed out of existence...

Precisely. For advice on strategic bombing own territory (and people), massed artillery barrages turning own towns to rubble and launching combined land-air operations using armor and gunships/strike aircraft followed by declaration of victory and then followed by repeated victorious operations...