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There is no doubt that the Army took a very long time to affix responsibility on the various commanders that failed to check and oversee recce patrols were carried out in winter to preclude enemy ingress in to our winter vacated territory.
However during the war our PM restricted our AFs from striking across the border. This restriction not only resulted in the loss of many avoidable casualties but restricted our Forces from adopting the best course of action which was to cut off the supplies to the infiltrators and starve them of support.
This also could have been used strategically to isolate, cut off support and logistics to Pakistan’s Northern Light Infantry. Restive people of Gilgit Baltistan, a troublesome territory, could have been developed as a thorn in Pak’s flesh. It would also have prevented the construction of CPEC by the Chinese to Gwadar.
Lessons should be learnt from every PM’s failure in all our wars due to political interference causing lasting problems for our AFs.
Even after the famous unparalleled victory in 1971 Mrs Gandhi released PWs without a written Peace Agreement with Bhutto. Not only our PWs in Pak are still there but militancy is now the bane of our deployment in J&K.
With every new Chief bending backwards to our political masters there is going to be no change in our strategy against our enemies.
God help our country. Jai Hind!
This General is attention seeking, anti-BJP guy. He just writes everything against Modi govt. He never had any such problems in erstwhile govt. According to him all these problems started in 2014 June.
Gen HS Panag Sir, has given a good alarming point or I may say a foresight view on the ongoing disaster of covid 19, faced by the whole world and Defence Forces in particular. As in India the war against the deadly virous is just started, so why moral responsibility later not to responed responsibly now at advance stage. Every one better knows where the loopholes are, why not to fix them in advance instead of facing the situation to take moral responsibility later. It’s also a moral responsibility of each and everyone to take care of self and others and if there is anything neeeds consideration, let it bought to notice well advance, without waiting the water to cross the head. But as Indians we have created a habit of justification and paying for our faults. Who cares, though we keeps our helmet while driving a two Wheeler but wears only when stoped by the policeman at the check point, and if not than chances are more to take moral responsibility in the court of God. Thank you
H S Panag likes are impostering greatness just by drawing parallels will that the US forces now too late . Panag must have had several occasions every day to blow the whistle he never blew and stick to his ration perks no doubt there is command failure moral failure human failure all combined in Army from ever since china war and Menon had to bite the bullet for the army conspiracy against the civil command .Army has been a conspiring controversial command ever since then fighting for perks with no responsibility and sticking to posts. Subramanium kargil enquiry is not made public and not implemented till date. And V Rawat now is new born GIN who is out to make Indian Army a ancillary of TRUMP with Modi TRUMPS marketing Manager offering 1.4 billion Indians as a market and as a cheap manpower to Trump business empire . Corona hoax is a strategies to hide the great cracking of Pentagon by the Indian business for selfish gains .
Vishnu, I am miles away from the armed forces, physically and figuratively speaking. But I will tell you this: ask anyone in the army circles if the “atmosphere” or *culture” has changed, or threatening to change since 2014. It wasn’t so threatened even in the earlier rule of the BJP, in Vajpeyi’s time. Murli Manohar Joshi was the defense minister, and he suggested that THE BHAGAVAD GITA should be introduced in the forces, but the idea was shot down by someone. The biggest strategy of the forces to MAINTAIN AN AWE about them is by not mixing with the civilians. Did anyone know that our DGMO during Kargil war was (then) Lt. Gen NC Vij, who later became the army chief? And what do you have since Modi-Shah have come to power? DGMO Lt. Gen Ranjit Singh holding a full press conference ; on other occasions other Generals holding press conferences, including the incumbent Chief Gen Narvane. Bipin Rawat has made n number of political statements and that’s why perhaps he is the CDS. I mean no disrespect to him or other Generals ; I am only saying that given Narendra Modi’s penchant for sychophancy, which flows from the typical Gujju insecurity of favoring APDO MANUS (Gujarati, means “our man”), there is every possibility that “appeasing the political boss at the cost of professional aloofness” has crept into the armed forces. This is what I call, BJP infested atmosphere.
You seem to be exhibiting the same sort of bias against a particular political party without any evidence it seems, and favouritism towards a particular political thought process in the same manner as you have alleged against the decisions of the armed forces.
Fixing up responsibilities for the failure of commands in Armed Forces is very slow process and sometimes just ignored.Nepotisom works very fast .Lower authorities are being made scapegoats.I expected Honble Gen.Panag Sir to be more bold in his article.Any way atleast Panag Sir has tried to focus on a very important issue of Armed Forces but I must say not a routine manner.
Gen Panag shies away from giving his opinion on what could be the REASON for not fixing accountability. Could it be a civilian-type FAVORITISM among the officers? Could it be the preffered religious leanings of the guilty? In the current BJP infested atmosphere, the latter could be a distinct possibility. In the game where human lives are at stake, where the soldiers’ families’ happiness or ruination is at stake, any attempt to skirt the issue, or chicanery to not call a spade a spade can only be called unworthy of an upright soldier like Gen Panag.
Gen Panag tries to an analogy of the the incidents in the US Navy to the Indian Armed Forces. What he quotes about the Navy is just a tip of the iceberg, wherein Adm Joshi resigned paving way for an unplanned succession, which became a discomfort for a few. But to say that is the only exception is incorrect. Adm Joshi’s stepping down after so many incidents in his watch were very unfortunate and they were not stray incidents. It was also due to the leadership at that point time at higher levels. It also needs to be remembered that many Officers were punished for dereliction of duty during the Chief’s tenure, without actually getting into the root cause. There were incidents before that and many Officers have taken moral responsibility and taken related actions. Yes, they were not publicised and it better be that way. Therefore, Gen Panag’s article though meant it, it falls short of stating that moral responsibility is the hallmark of the Services and there is no second thought about it.
There is no doubt that the Army took a very long time to affix responsibility on the various commanders that failed to check and oversee recce patrols were carried out in winter to preclude enemy ingress in to our winter vacated territory.
However during the war our PM restricted our AFs from striking across the border. This restriction not only resulted in the loss of many avoidable casualties but restricted our Forces from adopting the best course of action which was to cut off the supplies to the infiltrators and starve them of support.
This also could have been used strategically to isolate, cut off support and logistics to Pakistan’s Northern Light Infantry. Restive people of Gilgit Baltistan, a troublesome territory, could have been developed as a thorn in Pak’s flesh. It would also have prevented the construction of CPEC by the Chinese to Gwadar.
Lessons should be learnt from every PM’s failure in all our wars due to political interference causing lasting problems for our AFs.
Even after the famous unparalleled victory in 1971 Mrs Gandhi released PWs without a written Peace Agreement with Bhutto. Not only our PWs in Pak are still there but militancy is now the bane of our deployment in J&K.
With every new Chief bending backwards to our political masters there is going to be no change in our strategy against our enemies.
God help our country. Jai Hind!
This General is attention seeking, anti-BJP guy. He just writes everything against Modi govt. He never had any such problems in erstwhile govt. According to him all these problems started in 2014 June.
Mind your business. When required Indian Army will be always available for his citizens.
Gen HS Panag Sir, has given a good alarming point or I may say a foresight view on the ongoing disaster of covid 19, faced by the whole world and Defence Forces in particular. As in India the war against the deadly virous is just started, so why moral responsibility later not to responed responsibly now at advance stage. Every one better knows where the loopholes are, why not to fix them in advance instead of facing the situation to take moral responsibility later. It’s also a moral responsibility of each and everyone to take care of self and others and if there is anything neeeds consideration, let it bought to notice well advance, without waiting the water to cross the head. But as Indians we have created a habit of justification and paying for our faults. Who cares, though we keeps our helmet while driving a two Wheeler but wears only when stoped by the policeman at the check point, and if not than chances are more to take moral responsibility in the court of God. Thank you
H S Panag likes are impostering greatness just by drawing parallels will that the US forces now too late . Panag must have had several occasions every day to blow the whistle he never blew and stick to his ration perks no doubt there is command failure moral failure human failure all combined in Army from ever since china war and Menon had to bite the bullet for the army conspiracy against the civil command .Army has been a conspiring controversial command ever since then fighting for perks with no responsibility and sticking to posts. Subramanium kargil enquiry is not made public and not implemented till date. And V Rawat now is new born GIN who is out to make Indian Army a ancillary of TRUMP with Modi TRUMPS marketing Manager offering 1.4 billion Indians as a market and as a cheap manpower to Trump business empire . Corona hoax is a strategies to hide the great cracking of Pentagon by the Indian business for selfish gains .
Bjp infested atmospehre wah batla.
70 yrs since was it bjp infested also?
No accidents then suddenly accidents in bjp infested atmos.
Grow up batla
Vishnu, I am miles away from the armed forces, physically and figuratively speaking. But I will tell you this: ask anyone in the army circles if the “atmosphere” or *culture” has changed, or threatening to change since 2014. It wasn’t so threatened even in the earlier rule of the BJP, in Vajpeyi’s time. Murli Manohar Joshi was the defense minister, and he suggested that THE BHAGAVAD GITA should be introduced in the forces, but the idea was shot down by someone. The biggest strategy of the forces to MAINTAIN AN AWE about them is by not mixing with the civilians. Did anyone know that our DGMO during Kargil war was (then) Lt. Gen NC Vij, who later became the army chief? And what do you have since Modi-Shah have come to power? DGMO Lt. Gen Ranjit Singh holding a full press conference ; on other occasions other Generals holding press conferences, including the incumbent Chief Gen Narvane. Bipin Rawat has made n number of political statements and that’s why perhaps he is the CDS. I mean no disrespect to him or other Generals ; I am only saying that given Narendra Modi’s penchant for sychophancy, which flows from the typical Gujju insecurity of favoring APDO MANUS (Gujarati, means “our man”), there is every possibility that “appeasing the political boss at the cost of professional aloofness” has crept into the armed forces. This is what I call, BJP infested atmosphere.
You seem to be exhibiting the same sort of bias against a particular political party without any evidence it seems, and favouritism towards a particular political thought process in the same manner as you have alleged against the decisions of the armed forces.
If persons in uniform have to be careful, so do those who deal with them.
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Fixing up responsibilities for the failure of commands in Armed Forces is very slow process and sometimes just ignored.Nepotisom works very fast .Lower authorities are being made scapegoats.I expected Honble Gen.Panag Sir to be more bold in his article.Any way atleast Panag Sir has tried to focus on a very important issue of Armed Forces but I must say not a routine manner.
Gen Panag shies away from giving his opinion on what could be the REASON for not fixing accountability. Could it be a civilian-type FAVORITISM among the officers? Could it be the preffered religious leanings of the guilty? In the current BJP infested atmosphere, the latter could be a distinct possibility. In the game where human lives are at stake, where the soldiers’ families’ happiness or ruination is at stake, any attempt to skirt the issue, or chicanery to not call a spade a spade can only be called unworthy of an upright soldier like Gen Panag.
Gen Panag tries to an analogy of the the incidents in the US Navy to the Indian Armed Forces. What he quotes about the Navy is just a tip of the iceberg, wherein Adm Joshi resigned paving way for an unplanned succession, which became a discomfort for a few. But to say that is the only exception is incorrect. Adm Joshi’s stepping down after so many incidents in his watch were very unfortunate and they were not stray incidents. It was also due to the leadership at that point time at higher levels. It also needs to be remembered that many Officers were punished for dereliction of duty during the Chief’s tenure, without actually getting into the root cause. There were incidents before that and many Officers have taken moral responsibility and taken related actions. Yes, they were not publicised and it better be that way. Therefore, Gen Panag’s article though meant it, it falls short of stating that moral responsibility is the hallmark of the Services and there is no second thought about it.