Why India didn't strike Pakistan after 26/11

[dadeechi]

In spite of all the rhetoric, India knew very well that Pakistan's government was not responsible for the attack and an unsaid third party was involved.

Who is the third party?

I am not allowed to share more than what I have already said.

 

[Rank]

The simple answer of all this long short story...

India is India and Pakistan is not Afghanistan or Maymmar lol.... India will get the response today what India can't even imagine... technically if you ask any Indian army officer, he will tell you how hard for any military to go for war against the military who has vast experience in today's battlefield particularly in Pakistan/India type of terrain, especially you go against the one, who are actively involve in today's modern warfare from last 10 years where as your expertise limited to exercises.

 

[nair]

The general military leadership at it's weakest did not think twice before opening up the entire front to incursion in Akhnoor, but the same military was told not to cross LOC in kargil, Why? International pressure. If we worry about our image more than the lives and security of our own citizens, then it is quite a sorry state. When did we become that country? Who made that transition? How many people have died in terror attacks in the last 30 years, what are we going to answer to those families.... chalta hai? or theek hai?

I agree over a period of time we have been projected ourselves as a soft nation infront of world...... Or we tried to portray ourselves as a matured nation.... While doing so knowingly or unknowingly we have turned out to be a soft nation....... You are right, What would have been the response if 26/11 was happened in UK, France, China, Russia or any other European country???? I agree with you on the response, But then...We had 2 options....

1) Respond with a military strike.......... Which for sure was deliberated and discussed - Probably we did not have the political will, If that is not the case, there is no point of boasting about the military which have.....

2) Behave like a matured nation, and use the situation : We had used the situation to a great extent...... We have used it to an extent that we are still milking it..... We could gather international support not only on this incident but terrorism as a whole...... Earlier terrorism was a word for western countries and big powers, now they know the pain of it and they also understand our pain....Now I am sure our agencies are not saints and they are here to preach peace, They have been doing their job pretty well..... and Pakistan also knows it now, and that could be a reason why we did not see any major attack for last few years....

Wonder what will be our response of a repeat of 26/11....... May be few more dossiers.......

 

[Indian Patriot]

India is a soft state. It is not only attacks against Indians but attacks against but foreign guests on Indian soil. Remember how the Iranians attacked the Israeli envoy?

 

[Spectre]

It is interesting that hardly a one or two people have gone into moral justification for strikes - seems like narrative that strikes were justified is acceptable to members on the both side.

I agree over a period of time we have been projected ourselves as a soft nation infront of world...... Or we tried to portray ourselves as a matured nation.... While doing so knowingly or unknowingly we have turned out to be a soft nation....... You are right, What would have been the response if 26/11 was happened in UK, France, China, Russia or any other European country???? I agree with you on the response, But then...We had 2 options....

1) Respond with a military strike.......... Which for sure was deliberated and discussed - Probably we did not have the political will, If that is not the case, there is no point of boasting about the military which have.....

2) Behave like a matured nation, and use the situation : We had used the situation to a great extent...... We have used it to an extent that we are still milking it..... We could gather international support not only on this incident but terrorism as a whole...... Earlier terrorism was a word for western countries and big powers, now they know the pain of it and they also understand our pain....Now I am sure our agencies are not saints and they are here to preach peace, They have been doing their job pretty well..... and Pakistan also knows it now, and that could be a reason why we did not see any major attack for last few years....

Wonder what will be our response of a repeat of 26/11....... May be few more dossiers.......

Patience and pragmatism has been the Modus Operandi in dealings between the countries having near parity. Though one thing is clear that the offending party needs to feel the pain. I would say point for Pakistan because it successfully managed to obfuscate the issue to avoid sanctions.

 

[Windjammer]

It is well known, that Indian Mirrage and Sukhois were forced to retrun after they were locked by Pakistani interceptors.
It is also well know that Indian build all the courage due to zardari and his tribe's control over Pakistan and its media.

Mentioned all that in an earlier thread but obviously it didn't go well with Micro power citizens for two reasons.

1: SU-30MKI is untouchable or at least it was until it started ejecting out it's pilots and was exposed by the likes of RAF.
2: Hajmola was in short supply.

@ topic, the visiting American commander was even shown images of fully armed MKI, squarely captured in the F-16 HUD.



The Day PAF Routed Out IAF

 

[Spectre]

@ topic, the visiting American commander was even shown images of fully armed MKI, squarely captured in the F-16 HUD.

Source - quotes from American Side.

 

[Windjammer]

Source - quotes from American Side.

Time and dates given, why don't you confer with IAF.
BTW, has the IAF ever denied the incident(s). !!!!

 

[Spectre]

Time and dates given, why don't you confer with IAF.
BTW, has the IAF ever denied the incident(s). !!!!

It is but logical that IAF wouldn't comment on garbage.

 

[Windjammer]

It is but logical that IAF wouldn't comment on garbage.

Really, well they were quick to go on National TV and make tall claims even about an exercise....which after all did turn out to be a lot of garbage.

 

[PakEagle]

Because unlike you ewarriors Indians generals knew how their a$$es will be burnt alive from the radiations of Pakistani nukes.

Had Pakistan had no nukes then that Raw staged 26/11 would have been used as a pretext for War .

 

[IceCold]

. response to 9/11 right or wrong blew the smithereens out of two countries and we send dossiers.

Neither is India USA nor Pakistan is the two mentioned countries blown to smithereens. Your analogy is completely wrong. Being nationalist is one thing, being utterly naive another. The credit of 71 goes more to the geostrategic location of East Pakistan which favoured India than to the might of the Indian army. If you compare today's Pakistan with that, you my friend are living in a fool's Paradise.

 

[EAK]

Indians and there mental masturbation on this thread is tooo damn high..
Lol .. some saying we are doing it with proxies.. i mean seriously.. seriously that's the best lame excuse u guys can come up with.. where are those surgical strikes with your super dooper su30 .. Surgical strikes.. you guys seriously live in some kind of dream world..

 

[Hindustani78]

Because unlike you ewarriors Indians generals knew how their a$$es will be burnt alive from the radiations of Pakistani nukes.

Had Pakistan had no nukes then that Raw staged 26/11 would have been used as a pretext for War .

26/11 attack was attack on Indian constitution.

India is being victim of proxy wars since decades but now its hard for the proxies to attack India.

Indian military is well prepared for any full scale war.

 

[SrNair]

are you sure? What held us back in kargil? it's not new, we had exactly similar operation in op gibraltor? Is the collective amnesia that strong that we wiped of 65 completely from our memory.

I am as nationalist as you and others, but I will call out spinelessness of the government when i see it. Don't take it personally.

The next part is terror attacks, yes it deserves a full response... Lets get some courage, second largest standing army on the planet, leverage it's might. response to 9/11 right or wrong blew the smithereens out of two countries and we send dossiers.

Kargil was an eye opener to our Govt.As a think thank you knows the pathetic condition Indian Army at that time.
Only thing that helped us is the Mirage and imported LGB kit.Otherwise situation would have been different.
Now we have Su 30,Sudharsan LGB,Gliding bomb .Indiegenous stuffs including artillery.better intel network including from military intelligence .Satellite support etc .If we face a Kargil now .We can easil deploy those Su for bombing run..Now we have stand off weapons.
Our emerging status is another advantage.

World second largest Army with 20 days of ammo reserve and a nascent armms industry .Numbers alone wont change game ,we need weapons .
That was situation of IA around few years ago.God knows the pathetic condition during Kargil.
We cant go for a sudden offensive because that will low er the nuke threshold .But
But we can execute a slow ,long time war if we have a good arms industry .And can also make the expense so severe to Pakistan.

My 2c, Indian forces should strike and bring down the ISI culprits even if it means doing Mossad style operation against the Munich attackers. It is about time to bring these terrorist sponsors to trial.

Pal, great to have big balls but no brains. You cannot even provide safe drinking water for your public. First get your basic population development then think of screwing around. You procreate like flies and have no brains; no wonder why you unleash these kids by brainwashing them.

Terrible. A monkey with matches. Last thing this world needs.

Dont care about their boasting about 'defeat two superpowers'.
That nation suffered a lots during last one decade .
When Americans visits Pakistan just after 26/11 they gave them two choice 'with us or against us'.
Like you know their General President sold out their sovreignity once again.And escaped from B2s of USAF.