tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post2432805093923684570..comments2024-03-14T06:10:14.591-07:00Comments on Broadsword by Ajai Shukla - Strategy. Economics. Defence.: With Doklam negotiations under way, military believes it has emerged victorBroadswordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076780076240598482noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-39189059541995585272017-07-25T15:57:45.512-07:002017-07-25T15:57:45.512-07:00agreed we have bigger demons to kill but chinese g...agreed we have bigger demons to kill but chinese goverment can not be believed they are basically a classic bully ... well and India alwaus does what is not fit for her !we wanted to bring world peace with around 30% literacy rate ..lol ! so we will stand ! thats how India worked historically ... China miscalculates allways one thing in India people perception makes and direvt policy our political system no matter how much corrupt or inefficient it is ...it assures it will remain that way ... if china does not ubderstand that i am afraid this is just a start of a very bitter and scary rivelary that will hamper million of poor people in both countries avishekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11059940066816195992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-30139153968860710852017-07-23T08:31:12.246-07:002017-07-23T08:31:12.246-07:00Isn't it too early to blow the trumpet.Isn't it too early to blow the trumpet.ROBINSONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01429976292705573516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-78449681379800600662017-07-21T22:30:35.008-07:002017-07-21T22:30:35.008-07:00Very analytical Very analytical Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17175688964612663909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-41176309046891241012017-07-21T07:27:34.371-07:002017-07-21T07:27:34.371-07:00Any such negotiations is just to buy time. India h...Any such negotiations is just to buy time. India has to speed up it preparedness and modernisationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-81847898811951173082017-07-21T03:09:50.906-07:002017-07-21T03:09:50.906-07:00
There are many people who wonder why Pakistan sur...<br />There are many people who wonder why Pakistan survives (and now thrives):<br /><br />https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21725099-three-score-and-ten-years-after-their-acrimonious-split-india-and-pakistan-remain<br /><br />Chola<br />Ps. I am still praying they breakup by 2018.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-49517821201760712092017-07-20T14:06:49.034-07:002017-07-20T14:06:49.034-07:00Another excellent article. I think we need to focu...Another excellent article. I think we need to focus on development.<br /><br />Look whats happening across the border: <br /><br /><br />https://www.voanews.com/a/china-calls-pakistan-cpec-fastest-and-most-effective-of-bri-projects/3951874.html<br /><br />https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21725101-leg-up-all-weather-friend-china-makes-pakistan-offer-it-cannot-refuse<br /><br />These articles are worth scanning wrt the impact it will have on the next 50 years or so.<br /><br />PrasunAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-67351645602165940492017-07-20T10:25:55.259-07:002017-07-20T10:25:55.259-07:00India is a corruption ridden country. It is led by...India is a corruption ridden country. It is led by politicians and bureaucrats who plan, execute and drive corruption in all spheres of public life including military life. Don't you know it. Remember Chetwode credo? Does it not apply to our generals? What are they doing about the men they command? They are half politicians. For their own benefit they will have thousands killed. They will of course keep their masters happy. Remember Sunderji? What he did to India? He pumped up R Gandhi so much that people were getting killed all around. Blue Star and Pawan ops are his gifts to india. Did not indira and Rajiv lose their lives as a consequence? <br />What I am trying to bring out is don't believe in these politicians, bureaucrats and Generals. They will lead this country to disintegration for they are not only corrupt on money front but they are also morally corrupt. Can a person, not corrupt, in the Army go beyond the rank of colonel? You will have to look at corruption from a wider angle.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09850752289344371404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-3076132537223826042017-07-20T09:47:13.343-07:002017-07-20T09:47:13.343-07:00The author seems to appease his China apologists a...The author seems to appease his China apologists and Anti Modi readers in the last line. He seems to do that by putting the gun on the shoulder of S. Jaishankar and shooting the messengers reporting Chinese aggression. The words "reportedly told" in the last line of the article suggests the nonconformity and perhaps a false narrative of the writer himself. Otherwise, the article is insightful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-5250463511916086192017-07-20T03:47:09.420-07:002017-07-20T03:47:09.420-07:00I feel de javu, wasn't this what indian genera...I feel de javu, wasn't this what indian generals told nehru when nehru implemented aggressive forward policy against China? that China wouldn't do anything? I guess some people never learn. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-74883472637925285332017-07-20T00:23:36.177-07:002017-07-20T00:23:36.177-07:00“-------- says a general, speaking on condition of...“-------- says a general, speaking on condition of anonymity".<br />By remaining anonymous, the general has ensured that he has the upside of the argument, but not its downside. If things indeed turn out well for India, he would later claim ownership of the statement. If not, who knows who this man is. <br />Anyone who benefits from both possible tosses of the coin does not have'skin in the game'. Should we give them any credibility?Alok Asthanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362507906160748320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-60418867905044998912017-07-19T19:53:55.801-07:002017-07-19T19:53:55.801-07:00What is happening around at international levels a...What is happening around at international levels and how is the environment shaping up ? Chinese do not do anything without areason and it would be a fallacy to imagine they intruded into Doklam thinking Indians will not react. While Chinese militray misadventure was on, India, USA and Japan were together in Indian Ocean. Modi had just concluded a successful visit to USA securing some favourable deals with them. There is an internal power struggle amongst Chinese laedership, Chinese economy is not faring that well, India openly defied Chinese designs on their old method of expansion of Han inpearism through trade. India has begun competing with China in Asia on many fronts. One is but compelled to comapre at times with situation obtained around 1960 - 62 minus the Cuban crisis.<br /><br />Indian domestic scene is also very strange. Congress is conducting their own diplomacy and talks throgh Rahul, Priyanka and Vadra, probably guided by Mani Shankar. Mamata is all out to blame every thing wrong in Bengal on BJP and China. Mufty has officially brought Chinese into Kashmir as a party to the conflict. Indian communists have again started their old tricks as they did around 1962. There are people like you who are obscuring issues by subtle smoky discription of the dispute, wrong maps and wrong analysis.<br /><br />Today, the real skullton tumbled out of China. They blame it on "Hindu Nationlism". (remember it was reactionary Nehru and Western Imerialism in 1960s). Now see how the dots connect everyone - Congress, Muslim - the core constituency of many, J&K, Communist, Mamata, Pakistan and China with that single word - Hindu Nationlism?<br /><br />So is it Doklam under threat or Hindu Nationlism ? China along with all others mentioned above consider Hindu Nationalism as main thrat to their hegemony. Beawre India - your identity is under grave danger.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-34461611579986770742017-07-19T19:40:08.946-07:002017-07-19T19:40:08.946-07:00It could well be the case that nothing further hap...It could well be the case that nothing further happens in this stand-off. Quite possible. But that was never the foregone conclusion. While it is possible that India had decided to not get into a shooting war, there was/is never a guarantee that China would just not shoot. What else is brinkmanship? The question then is - what are the gains of this risk we took? Are they commensurate with the alternate course of events that could well have played out (and may still do). Impress Bhutan? How important is it to impress Bhutan? How important is to impress ANYONE? Am talking of a country which doesn't have money to look after the education, infrastructure, health and day to day security needs of millions. Alok Asthanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362507906160748320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-26819716632467447042017-07-19T19:06:24.639-07:002017-07-19T19:06:24.639-07:00It would be a mistake to think that this may be th...It would be a mistake to think that this may be the end of it, though. <br />The Chinese may come in across Depsang, for example, and plonk themselves there to gain leverage.Vivek Prasadhttp://mallufideintent.blogspot.innoreply@blogger.com