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At one point of time, I most certainly was. Hell, I have the entire Halo novel set. But as it is with life, you get busy, and stuff just fades away from you. I haven't been in touch with the game/novels for a year now.

India may or may not order more than 400-500 Arjuns. However, that will not be due to the reasons mentioned: 1. They are fully transportable by rail, on specialized rolling stock which I assure you are adequate in number. 2. Anywhere the T-90 is motorable, the Arjun is operable. The reverse is...

So evil deeds invite earthquakes, that kill and maim mostly women and children, who would logically have the least culpability for the supposed 'evil deeds'? Or is this a form of collective punishment, designed to punish by killing their loved one? But that aside, what then does good deeds...

Initial reports a few hours after H-hour are always terribly inaccurate, and on the off chance they are accurate, they are already obsolete by the time the news gets relayed. Having said that, and speaking from understanding of past events, it will be a miracle if so few people die.

He has some sort of mental block every time he sees India; it's always low quality India blah blah. Not worth the attention. But that said, as long as the primary criteria for admission to private engineering colleges remain the ability to pay the admission fees plus the donation money, there...

I take offense to your implied assertion that Blitzkrieg was a Nazi invasion tactic. The basic conceptualization of the future Wehrmacht's operational doctrines (the word Blitzkrieg wasn't mentioned in any German army green-book) were already ready by 1932, before Nazi Party rose to ascendancy...

There's no point beating about the bush; the nukes and even more so the sheer incapability (and lack of confidence) of military commanders have imposed a straitjacket on the political decision making. You cannot go to war, or even threaten war when your Chief-of-Staff is busy articulating his...

The difference between the Americans and the much of the world is that they don't wait, hope and pine for the world to fall onto their lap. They're always seizing the initiative, being creative, formulating ideas that makes a world of difference when you sit down to discuss a deal with a...

The PLA never reached Tezpur, their drive into Assamese heartland had stopped before that. I know that because my family members were in that garrison town in 1962, and remember vividly the scenes of panic and chaos that permeated the frantic atmosphere at that moment in history. And yes, I'm an...

Perhaps we could constitute a new award: The award for the most dramatic, pretentious, attention slaving, obnoxiously reasoned return of an award. This award is be handed on an emergency basis to the left-liberals who're running short of notable awards to return, so that they may be able to...

Well, let's put it this way. Those same arm chair Photography interpreters cum forensic analysts managed to find 700,000 IA troops in Kashmir; for an Army that has 390 odd infantry battalions with roughly 1000 soldiers a battalion. (You can ignore the mech/armored infantry as till now, no tanks...

Hardly the case. A strategic Air Defense/ Ballistic Missile Defense system has been a very old stated requirement of the IAF (almost as old as me). A lot of members here believe that IAF has S-300 BMD systems for defens of Delhi. Well, it turns out, there is a grand total of 1 source, Janes I...

The US Navy has a rather interesting concept in advanced stages of experimental implementation; the Distributed Lethality Concept. What the concept basically suggests is this: Disperse, disperse, and disperse again. Disperse firepower among surface warships, making every vessel a combatant. The...

@Oscar, I'd suggested on several occasions the steady, if slow build up of intelligence capabilities by India's alphabetical soup of agencies concerning Pakistan following the 26/11 incident. There was also a revamp of the extent and nature of operations permitted and the scope of activities to...

Seriously, are you trolling, or perhaps something impacted (intentionally or accidentally) the enclosure we term the Skull and forced the organ we call the brain down to somewhere below your knees. That would also explain the illogical and weird "lolz" escaping through the newly developed void...

Fair point, but who's going to wage that all decisive war for Kashmir? The Regular PA?Or PA masquerading as Mujaheddin?Or the Mujaheddin/terrorist/militant army? or or another new set of non-state actors? Or non-vegetarian mujahideen martians? The PA is absolutely convinced of its inevitable...

Slightly incorrect. Th IA has ordered 114 LCH, a number which corresponds to roughly 10 light attack helicopter squadrons, each with 11-12 helis . It is to be noted that each Corps (Rather group Armies) will in time get integral aviation brigades, with a squadron of light attack helis each. In...

Well, how exactly are you going to fight this 'water war'? You could try bombing the dams, but given that they are anywhere between 70-200 m thick walls of solid concrete, and designed keeping in mind a potential attack, I very much doubt 1000-2000 pound bombs will affect them much. Infact you...

The Indo-China LAC region was disarmed as per 1993(?) agreement. Neither side is allowed to carry firearms while patrolling the disputed region. So the worst that could happen is a uniformed, high altitude desi version of Crows Zero, with sticks and baseball bats replaced by military boots and...

So let me get this straight; developing space/ space assisted technologies as in communication satellites, earth observation satellites, cyclone warning systems, Tsunami warning systems, Systems assisting fishermen get maximum benefit and any other space based/derived technology that might save...