Hi Future PAF, you need to read up on the subject of military science a bit better before we can have a meaningful conversation. The above suggests to me you are a little behind where I am and it isn't interesting for me to really engage.
Regarding what I would do if I were the COAS, (I assume Pakistan's first non-Pakistani COAS in a long long time), I would do the following:
1. Do a coup de etat.
2. Bring a
hand-picked civilian government into power, emphasizing lack of corruption and competence
3. Begin a
blood bath of all corrupt elements in the country. If caught on corruption charges, we will torture them to near death, then publicly flog them to death, in a stadium.
4. Capture even by foreign kidnapping all corrupt elements that stole large sums of money.
Torture them and their families till they return on the money, then castrate them.
5. With the money saved, increase government salaries by 50%
6. Make it known that no foreign country can have inordinate influence in the country. Eliminate foreign O and A level and create a local private alternative.
No foreign trained Macauley's children to betray Pakistan.
7. Strict policy of
not sending soldiers to Europe or the US for training, where they are handpicked to become traitors, brainwashed using subtle methods.
8. No one engaged in procurement for the nation will be allowed to ever set foot outside the country or to send their children abroad.
9. Make it known that we will liberate Kashmir, whether in 3 years, 5 years or 10 years.
This is the national goal #1. Make this known informally to the military rank and file, and the R&D. Everyone is expected to get in top shape and do their jobs to the utmost professionalism. R&D will be put on three fold increase and strict orders that the future liberation of Kashmir depends on their hard work. Anyone shirking after that will be dishonorably discharged.
10. Give weapons, training and serious equipment, including SAMs and artillery to
Taliban to create a buffer state on the Western front. All Afghan refugees will be
forcibly repatriated, if needed, paradropped to whichever part of Afghanistan they came from.
11. A consript supplemental army will be raised, based on matriculating students and degree graduating students. By random lottery, a force of 50,000 will be raised for 6 month conscript duty. This will be complemented by 50,000 more "weekend warriors", salaried but part time soldiers, often recruited from retiring soldiers. This will give the capacity for 20 more infantry brigades, good for defensive holding positions.
All infantry divisions will have one such "
People's Brigade" attached, freeing up 20 traditional infantry brigades. These will be reorganized and up-armed into 7 new motorized divisions.
12. Tanks. My best guess is that the Al Khalid has issues and is dependent on too many foreign parts, and too much complexity. We will build a new simplified tank, on the philosophy of the T-34,
mass production in numbers. These tanks will have to following salient features:
- have a 76mm gun and not a 125mm one. For anti-tank they will hold 8 ATGMs. Will have local fire control systems, transmissions, and commercially easy to procure (if not produce locally) engines. These will be mass produced with emphasis on ATGM defense - using embedded ERA, and spaced armor design not as ad hoc but designed with the tank from the get-go.
13. CAS aeroplanes. Think
modern IL-2 or Stuka. Will be based on the Cold War era British SABA design. Mass produced.
14. Project Azm should be a tailess delta similar to a twin engined Mirage-2000, that has built in stealth from the design stage. V tails and thrust vectoring to compensate for the lack of canards. Weapons will be semi-recessed and conformally carried, making it cheap, simple and easy to maintain. The world's first and only low cost, low maintenance, high sortie rate 5.5 generation stealth fighter. We will call it "Lightening III"
UCAVs for offensive strike and as BVR AAM trucks for networked JFTs and Azms.
15.
Dress, national identity. A new national identity will be worked on, that is neither traditional nor borrowed from the West. A competition will be held for the "new dress" for Pakistan. The best design, by popular vote will become the new national dress. The military will have to change their dress to reflect the design choices of this new dress and not be a mirror reflection of British or American design.
All British and American cultural practices in the military will be abolished, and a purge instituted to ensure these institutions stop serving the interests of their former colonial masters.
When the British came, they opened schools and started dressing our children in their clothes and making them speak English. Under the Macauley plan, they used this and similar policies to create a brown sahib Babu culture. We will reverse this by doing what the British did in reverse. All schools will be forbidden to have a British dress code, or to regurgitate British made history and soft sciences.
Stop all Christian and missionary schools that have traditionally been used to create such environments for Muslim children. Instead, Christian schools may be operated by local Christians for their own community only.
16. Once the civilian government has had a go, create a new form of government that is suitable for Pakistan. Democracy is not. This will be called a "
Meritocracy", with only people with matriculation being able to vote. People with a degree will get 2 votes. People in the military will get an extra vote. There will only be one legislature.
Voting will be on a continuous flow process rather than a batch process, meaning elections of a few districts in any given year, completing a full cycle every 4 years. This will make managing elections a far less burdensome issue for a populous and underdeveloped country like Pakistan, also it will allow easy monitoring to make sure there is no corruption. Voting will not be first past the post, but rather choice/ranking-based similar to Israel.
17. Continue to
fence the Afghan border and make sure no militant madrasas are allowed to operate. At the same time, to
ensure Muslims actually know what Islam is, make a project that anyone in government service including the armed forces has to read the Quran in a language they understand at least once. All matriculating students need to have read the Quran at least once in a language they understand to ensure that the nation is not easily swayed by extremists and idiots alike.
18.
Attack and capture Kashmir will be the national goal as long as I am COAS. We will wait for a moment when the arrogance of the Indians, knowing no bounds, does another massacre or great injustice on Kashmir. Then showing it has failed to meet UN resolutions, one fine day we will attack, all of a sudden. No holds barred. Air force included. Cruise missiles included. Everything included.
Military will be activated and be aware that India may not wish to keep it limited to Kashmir. If and when India does make it a wider war, we would be prepared for it.
That is my wider context to a counterpunch from the Karoonjhar Mountains.
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You made him COAS instead of DGMO, thats all.
