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I liked it, but at the same time, expats should be polite. The deal they have here is much better than minorities back home get. Applies to us as well.

Why is ISPR claiming only 2 then? Any tactical or strategic benefit of such an obfuscation? One-shot might mean a sniper hit. TTP has access to top-of-the-line stuff now. It is beyond explanation why drones are not being employed to hit TTP in Afghanistan. It is not like the Afghan Taliban has...

If HQ-9C matches S-400's capability, why is PLA using S-400?

Not democracy but the political ambition of generals is the problem. The system is broken because it is broken/destabilized by these generals with an insatiable appetite for politics and playing the kingmaker. All this while the entire western flank of the country is facing an insurgency for 2...

2 KIA for 2 swine put down. Unacceptable losses. One wonder if these tactical actions are studied in depth so as to not make the same mistakes again because this seems to be happening with alarming frequency. 2 trained soldiers KIA for what? 2 chawwat wearing fararis?

@Joe Shearer, what made me earn your ire? ;)

Could be on foot too. An IBO went wrong, probably. There are too many of those these days. Again, problems might lie in the domains of poor operational planning and execution, the latter could be influenced by insufficient intelligence. Surveillance is subpar it appears. Too many IBOs could not...

When QRFs are getting ambushed, you know about the gravity of the situation on the ground and the dearth of real-time intelligence. The population is either too fearful to cooperate or alienated.

In an era of trrsts videotaping their attks, ISPR should come clean if they are keeping details from the public lest trrst propaganda videos put forth irrefutable evidence. Without effective surveillance INSIDE Afghanistan, the recurring story would remain just that, i.e. RECURRING...

I won't be deviating too far from the subject matter of the post by questioning the animus for Indian aggression against Pakistan. West is not becoming the factory floor of the world again. It is actively shifting industrial production from China to countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, India...

Until and unless ISR and ELINT capabilities do not mature, be ready for lifting hundreds of these janazas. Put the money where the mouth is. In asymmetric warfare, you can prevent only by being proactive in denying militants the time and space to operate. Require a high operational momentum on...

How does China asking for concessions restrain the Indian economy?

I have lived in such places and did very well at avoiding Indian retailers. If CPEC projects in AJK and GB are a threat to India, then any form of bilateral investment treaty that legitimizes the Indian occupation of IoJK is unacceptable to Pakistan as well. Pakistan has to look out for not only...

I feel for the people who take this clown seriously. S Should you be among the banned as well now, friend? Gross incompetence and lapses are also India's fault. Playing political kingmaker and atrophying institutional capabilities and lapsing institutional focus by delving into political...

As far as considering this a thought experiment, I am all for it, but seeing it as some sort of writing on the wall is not very rational. If anything could be learned from the Ukraine war, it is that once the dice rolls wars can be fought at their own pace and there is no way to make very...

In a war, stocks are exhausted at a brisk pace. Nobody in their right mind would expedite the exhaustion of critical war stocks that cannot be replenished at the moment. The kind of problem an army would be facing in the event of rapid exhaustion of war stocks during the war rather than 6-7...

Colour me pleasantly surprised in that case. This is a case where I would love to be proven wrong.

On the one hand, you rightfully point at the state of the Indian military whose 23% inventory is of Russian origin, and the fact that there would be shortages of spares, on the other hand, you say Indians will use this time of global upheaval to wage war. The seeds of self-contradiction lie in...

True, let's see how the new folks take CPEC forward now. The incumbents are on borrowed time now.

I am all for pragmatism. I have been doing some reading on the conflict response of the Indian state during the Kargil conflict. Indians took body blows but restrained themselves so they could free their economy from the shackles of economic sanctions that India was subjected to in the aftermath...