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Indian David vs Pak Goliath - yes, coz India has so much more to lose in this knife-fight. But we have cracked the strategic Gordian Knot - short sharp mil ops that queer Pak's chessboard just enuf to buy periods of peace. My piece in The Times Of India google.com/amp/s/timesofi…

Air travel zeitgeist - upper deck of the 747. Nothng, absolutely nothng compares to biz class 747 upper deck in aviation luxury..

English came much after sanskrit, tamil, kannada, whtever-goes-as-language-in-delhi - yet. Ergo....

Evidence of Fatah1 taking out indian airbases..

UEFA is going to be won by a clear non-elite this year, bit like Chelsea winning it. IPL *cud* go to RCB, the most undeserving team of all. Hopefully MI cuts thru the lap...

The pt on bank depo interest is largely true for India too. But more importantly, if the Chinese state can be such an efficient puppeteer, it is a rather scary thing...

If the Russians have finally gotten arnd the AL51, that is the contract to do. Buy whtever we can in ToT, wrap everythng else arnd it - AMCA-Felon;)

Commercial marine engines, mostly powered by diesel, while useful, are not a choke-pt. The Kaveri issue is in aero-derivative gas turbines - IN ships are powered by either Zorya (ravaged by war) or GE (knock knock 404;)) powerplants. Our sole attempt there is, well, Kaveri-M😈

It will be well worth asking which tac scenarios merit another expensive tank fleet, in an era of increasingly potent ATGMs. But woe betide anyone who does;)

Werner Von Braun must be wondering in his grave if he was American or a "foreign class of servants"...

Compare how the global Pak diaspora of media commentators treated Sindoor coverage w/the global Indian diaspora. Sanjaya Baru 's old quip abt uselessness of PIOs as interlocutors rings loud and true.

CDS is conflating strategic comms w/Yogi Berra wisdom on life. How does one even....😈

Its Calcutta, and the city faced not one, but 2 waves of islamist violence - in 1947 and in 1971. It will be rather Gandhian median if people didnt have memories fresh, sadly the median sensibilities nowhere are Gandhian. Riffraffs commenting on Mumbai elites are sort of...

24 hrs ago, the Air Chief went all ballistic at the incompetence of earth, universe and everythng else (besides the military of course), collecting mn of brownie pts in the process. Wonder where such...

Actually, the CDS said "in 2 days". Ergo, IAF was inoperative for 2 days in the middle of a designed short knife fight? Well....

Communications is literally a top 5 item in the JD at this level..

Absolute rubbish👇. Military-simps have a way of positing every gaffe as some grt virtue. Has anyone heard US generals admit "tactical error" in sending Tomahawks after Osama basis faulty intel? Have we heard of "tactical errors" for losing 2 F/A18 to Houthis in 1 week?

Which begs the qtn why IAF (yet again) was "surprised". Not as if PL15 was a surprise weapon that PAF fielded.

2019, Pak carried out a pre-declared strike - no SEAD/DEAD, took out 1 Mig21, 1 Mi17 in fratricide - "oh the attacker has all the advtg", said our retd mil types. 2025, we carried out a pre-declared strike, lost x nos of fighters - "oh no SEAD/DEAD, hi risk mission, grt pilots".

Military biz world over is a monopsony (except maybe Israel/France that have v large export mkts). Also a monopoly/oligopoly - only 1 fighter aircraft OEM in France, 2 in US. Its not abt public/pvt, but level of seriousness/vested interests..