Rechin La was a tactical success and a strategic warning. It exposed a system where political leaders seek control without defining boundaries, leaving commanders to assume strategic responsibility.
If anything, India's political leaders will now be more susceptible to military advice without any corresponding increase in their ability to interrogate them.
The Army seems to be getting dragged into every debate in the media, whether it is about patriotism, nationalism, student politics or the national anthem.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
What you have written is too technical for layman to understand.
But this can be easily misquoted and misinterpreted for propaganda by opportunistic small-minded politicians like Rahul Gandhi, who has no real agenda, than being anti-Modi.
RaGa has been clutching on straws or trying to turni anything into straw, to get engagement for personal political gains.
This controversy took attention away from important announcements in the budget on AI, semiconductors, bullet trains, customs reforms etc, which should have been the centre of discussion.
It is an unrealistic expectation for a poor and socialist India—with one fighter jet, one boat, and one Lee-Enfield rifle—to take decisive action and accept accountability. The nation is preoccupied with corruption and socialism and has neither the time nor the money for its armed forces.
What you have written is too technical for layman to understand.
But this can be easily misquoted and misinterpreted for propaganda by opportunistic small-minded politicians like Rahul Gandhi, who has no real agenda, than being anti-Modi.
RaGa has been clutching on straws or trying to turni anything into straw, to get engagement for personal political gains.
This controversy took attention away from important announcements in the budget on AI, semiconductors, bullet trains, customs reforms etc, which should have been the centre of discussion.
It is an unrealistic expectation for a poor and socialist India—with one fighter jet, one boat, and one Lee-Enfield rifle—to take decisive action and accept accountability. The nation is preoccupied with corruption and socialism and has neither the time nor the money for its armed forces.