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'Next Kargil could happen in the Andamans'

What exactly do the Andamans hold that Pakistan will mount some suicidal mission to go after it. Methinks the Adm has gone senile.
Naught to do with Pakistan.
Kargil was an euphemism to being caught unawares of having our own territory occupied by someone else.

Any Navy which has Andamans can close Mallacca militarily.
 
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Even if the allusion is not to Pakistan, the Andamans are not a mountain peak backed up by logistics and fallback. They are a bunch of Islands which can be cleared swiftly by any airborne or naval force. The days of Iwo Jima are over.
 
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Owned so much so that the mighty India had to run to, Pakistan's paternal uncle, the US to beg them to force Pakistan away from Kargil, threatening the world of Nuclear engagements!! Owned so much so that 35000 Indian Soldiers backed by 10 Squadrons of IAF were unable to retake all the peaks held by roughly 5000 Men (Soldiers + Mujahideen) for over 6 months until the Pakistanis were ordered to retreat! Owned so much so that all this happened while PAF & PA never had to bother with supplies or support!! Owned so much so that neither IAF nor the IA dared to cross a single inch of the border!!! Owned so much so that even today Pakistan holds one of the most strategic posts!!!

Yeah, Pakistan really got owned!!

From where do you pakistanis get fuctarded information.

It was you ganja pm who took first available flight to US to save his *** from India.

Did I state anything about Pakistan's victory anywhere????

Militarily you could not achieve your desired aim, diplomatically you won the war!

You lost all high fortified tops except one , wasn't that your military as well as diplomatic loss.
 
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Owned so much so that the mighty India had to run to, Pakistan's paternal uncle, the US to beg them to force Pakistan away from Kargil, threatening the world of Nuclear engagements!! Owned so much so that 35000 Indian Soldiers backed by 10 Squadrons of IAF were unable to retake all the peaks held by roughly 5000 Men (Soldiers + Mujahideen) for over 6 months until the Pakistanis were ordered to retreat! Owned so much so that all this happened while PAF & PA never had to bother with supplies or support!! Owned so much so that neither IAF nor the IA dared to cross a single inch of the border!!! Owned so much so that even today Pakistan holds one of the most strategic posts!!!

Yeah, Pakistan really got owned!!

Everybody knows who ran to US to get their @ss saved.

When Nawaz Sharif gave Bill Clinton a hard time over Kargil - Rediff.com India News
 
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Quite nonsensical. The sheer military presence that is found in A&N and that is constantly being built up will see that no such incidents take place. And how will any force large enough to hold any respectable plot of land get there without being spotted by the IN's MPAs,UAVs, IN patrols, ICG patrols and the radar chain present down there?
 
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Even if the allusion is not to Pakistan, the Andamans are not a mountain peak backed up by logistics and fallback. They are a bunch of Islands which can be cleared swiftly by any airborne or naval force. The days of Iwo Jima are over.
Yes. And the ex Naval Chief makes the case that the Islands should be better protected and better built up in the first place rather than having anyone from China to smugglers make a base in the one the hundreds of uninhabited Islands there and having to clear that later.

Quite nonsensical. The sheer military presence that is found in A&N and that is constantly being built up will see that no such incidents take place. And how will any force large enough to hold any respectable plot of land get there without being spotted by the IN's MPAs,UAVs, IN patrols, ICG patrols and the radar chain present down there?
We dont have a lot of military presence in A&N. The MoD has been tardy in building it up. The Triservices Command is understaffed and under equipped. We are significantly short of MPA, UAV's and ICG patrols.

The point is that all of them need to be ramped up substantially and will be slowly. The idea is that it should be done sooner/faster than the pace now.
 
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We dont have a lot of military presence in A&N. The MoD has been tardy in building it up. The Triservices Command is understaffed and under equipped. We are significantly short of MPA, UAV's and ICG patrols.

The point is that all of them need to be ramped up substantially and will be slowly. The idea is that it should be done sooner/faster than the pace now.
The presence there is MORE than enough to deal with this kind of threat. And capabilities are being built up year on year look at where ANC was 5 years ago and where it is now.

+the MARCOs also have a base on the A&N islands- its their playground down there.
 
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Not at all, who gonna occupy? pirates?

It is just a statement by the Navy Chief.
 
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Navy Chief statement is hiding another theory.In Kargil we did a small skirmishes to avoid a nuclear threshold .So we did a limited war there. involving ground troops only.In this case it is not nuclear threshold but environmental assets .This island have invaluable nature products.So we cant use heavy fire power to smoke infiltrators within short period of time .And so our only option is small skirmishes involving ground soldiers and limited air power.
 
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Some facts.. from Indian Gov..
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The argument that Point 5353 was never held by India has been regularly used by the Army public relations apparatus to rebut the charge that operational incompetence and strategic errors led to its occupation by Pakistan during the Kargil war. The claim is, in fact, true. India did not hold Point 5353 before the war broke out. What has not been reported widely is that this statement of fact rebuts nothing, for no one ever claimed that the peak was physically held by India before the war. Indeed, reports that appeared inFrontline and Business Line made quite clear that the peak was not held by either side in the build-up to the conflict.

Point 5353, along with the features around it, was occupied by the Pakistani troops at the start of the Kargil war. When the hostilities ended, the Indian troops had succeeded only in taking back Charlie 6 and Charlier 7, two secondary positions on the M arpo La ridgeline. The Indian troops had also been unable to evict Pakistani soldiers from Point 5240, some 1,200 metres from Point 5353 as the crow flies. Amar Aul, the 56 Brigade Commander in charge of the operations to secure Point 5353, responded by occupying two heights on the Pakistani side of the LoC, 4875 and 4251, just before the ceasefire came into force.

Aul later tried to use these two heights to bring about a territorial exchange. In mid-August 1999, his efforts bore fruit, and both sides committed themselves to leave Points 5353, 5240, 4251 and 4875 unoccupied. Indian and Pakistani troops pulled back to their pre-Kargil position as part of a larger agreement between their respective DGMOs. In October that year, however, the deal broke down. Aul tasked the 16 Grenadiers to take Point 5240 and the 1/3 Gorkha Rifles to occupy Point 5353, choosing to vio late the August agreement rather than risk a Pakistani reoccupation of these positions. The operation was mishandled, and when the Pakistani troops detected the Indian presence on 5240, they promptly launched a counter-assault on Point 5353.

Pakistan rapidly consolidated its position on 5353 after the abortive Indian offensive. Concrete bunkers came up on the peak, and a road was constructed to the base of the peak of Benazir Post. And with Point 5353 and its adjoining area now linked by roa d to Pakistan's rear headquarters at Gultari, any attack will lead to a full-blown resumption of hostilities. No official from the Army or the Defence Ministry has, until the third week of September, denied this sequence of events.

Nor has a denial been made of significant new revelations made by Anand. Anand made available the correspondence between Captain Navneet Mehta, who led an unsuccessful attack on Peak 5353 in May 1999. The correspondence outlines the errors that led to th is debacle. Aul has not been called to account for his actions. Nor has the Army denied or accepted this highly decorated solider's part in the debacle. Neither have his superiors seen it fit to explain why Pakistan was left in possession of the peak, an d why the subsequent exchange-deal was terminated to India's evident disadvantage. Most significant, Anand's claim that Point 5353 was indeed held by India in 1992-1993, successfully cutting off Pakistani supply routes, has not been rebutted.
 
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