THE ORCHASTRATED SLIDE
OF THE SOLDIERS' STANDING
BY THE GOVT AND
THE PRESTITUTE MEDIA
(BY AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR)
"Look
upon your soldiers as you do at infants and they will go
into deep valleys with
you; look upon your soldiers as beloved
children and they will willingly die
for you". -- Sun Tzu
Can't dispute the biting reality
of the 'Pen (paid media and Presstitutes - I really love this one; thank you V
K S) being Mightier than the Sword' (Emasculated Chiefs and a Bleeding
inventory).
A nation's international standing is based on its diplomatic
skills, economic strength and its military might, with the backdrop of its political and
strategic objectives, both regional and global.
Our blinkered mandarins
mesmerise the politicians with the 'KAA' gleam in their hooded eyes, which has
the Neta lapping up that 'inertia' as the way to go and enjoy the 'high
fives'. 68 years and ticking; the Babus have survived, while security has wilted
on the vine.
The unholy couple of the Neta & Babu has added a new family member - the Media, forming a 'troika'. This is the 'Gaushala Syndicate'. They milk the
Nation, water the three Services to make them battle unworthy and, as a bonus, dispose off the
'bhoosa' from other Services too.
Through this shameful nexus the troica has smothered and sidelined every perceived threat to their cozy existence.
The probing, chest thumping and garrulous Media
of the UPA days, has been put to hard times, made to grovel and be subserviant on a clear 'tow the
line or starve', dictum. This is evident not only from the black out of OROP, Veterans' agitation and the 7th C P C recommendations, (Where the three Services have been down graded literally to class 2 services), but also absence of any mention of anything uncomplementary to the ruling dispensation and their cohorts - 'The Hindutva Brigade'.
An orchastrated attempt was made to show the
Services in bad light over the botched up Pathankot operations, courtesy the NSA - the 'Cat with 9 lives'. On the other hand, the largest canvas of orchatrated propoganda, displays Doval as a genius, (Doval hai na, hir kya fikar hai?).
To top it all, the Army Chief has gone on Record saying, "There was no ambiguity in command and
control", thus putting the entire onus of the disastrous operation on the Defence Forces. What is left to say when our own chief is so blatantly disloyal to his own men!
"Et tu brute!"
"Et tu brute!"
Shishir Gupta among others, is
now a self-annointed Defence and Political Analyst, giving his blighted expert opinion and freely bad mouthing the Armed Forces. With him is a gang, including Shekhar
Gupta, Harish Khare (M & M - Media & Military- are conjointed twins), Raj
Chengappa, Unnithan, as the flavour of the season, with golden spoons in their mouths, and a pat from the 'Sangh'.
The likes of Brahma
Chelleny, C. Rajamohan, Vir Singhvi, Barkha Datt are accused of being instigated by a section of the Military establishment, are considered biased and lacking expertise on operational matters and are just tolerated with disdain.
Veterans have since been reduced to raising issues vitalling affecting them, only through the social media.
Surprisingly, some of the foreign columnists/ writers/
historians are far more tuned to the ground reality of Indo-Pak relationship. Stephen Cohen, Christine Fair, Christopher Jaffrelot and even Pakistanis like
Babbar Aiyaz and Hussain Haqqani (ex Pak Ambassador to the USA), understand the
duplicity in the thinking of the Pak Military, (Who virtually run the country), and caution the World that Pakistan does not view the threat from India just as security related
but also as ideological.
As per Christine Fair, Pak Army is
not willing to accept 'status quo' over Kashmir. It does not matter how many times
they get defeated by India; the Pak Army will not acquiesce to India. Such an acceptance would be considered a defeat and, therefore, an unacceptable proposition.
Charles Glaser (Princeton Univ), suggests that Pakistan may be purely a greedy state, (which is a fairly corroborated fact); a greedy state, 'fundamentally dissatisfied with the status quo, desiring additional territory, even when it is not required for security'. No amount of territorial concessions in Kashmir will satisfy the greed of Pakistan.
Charles Glaser (Princeton Univ), suggests that Pakistan may be purely a greedy state, (which is a fairly corroborated fact); a greedy state, 'fundamentally dissatisfied with the status quo, desiring additional territory, even when it is not required for security'. No amount of territorial concessions in Kashmir will satisfy the greed of Pakistan.
We, therefore, need a strong Military,
casting aside our defensive mind set and become more aggressive (I do not imply waging war) and pro-active by retaliating, by hitting Terrorist training
areas, strongholds, and command and communications set up. We must stop indulging in
empty platitudes, and emptier threats, leaving gaping holes in security
deployments and surveillance, which the JeM has repeatedly highlighted and virtually laughed
at, after hitting us with impunity, at more than one place, in the last few months.
We are dreaming of fight a 21st century war with 20th century antiquated weapon systems (Incidentally mostly 'Made in India' that jamevery now and then), inadequate armament, ships that keep catching fire/blowing up, aircrafts which keep periodically falling out of the sky, poor communication and creaky intelligence setup.
Mere cries of 'Mera Bharat Mahan' are unlikely to help win wars.
Perception is totally out of sync with
reality.
We are dreaming of fight a 21st century war with 20th century antiquated weapon systems (Incidentally mostly 'Made in India' that jamevery now and then), inadequate armament, ships that keep catching fire/blowing up, aircrafts which keep periodically falling out of the sky, poor communication and creaky intelligence setup.
Mere cries of 'Mera Bharat Mahan' are unlikely to help win wars.
Perception is totally out of sync with
reality.
The Services do not deserve such
spineless leadership, if we are to win wars. We must have military
professionals with a grasp of strategy, conceptual understanding of time and
space and mobility for deployment and engagement, mental clarity and
flexibility, combined with rapid decision making ability.
Tall order? Seems so in the current environment, where professionalism has been replaced by subservience and decision making on Military matters taken over by nonprofessionals.
The battle templates are there; pawns are in place; only the 'WAZIR(s)' are missing. As Sun Tzu observed, "Take away the energy of the ENEMY's Armies, and the hearts of their Generals and you will win the war".
The wise Indian owls are making Sun Tzu
walk on his head!!
Tall order? Seems so in the current environment, where professionalism has been replaced by subservience and decision making on Military matters taken over by nonprofessionals.
The battle templates are there; pawns are in place; only the 'WAZIR(s)' are missing. As Sun Tzu observed, "Take away the energy of the ENEMY's Armies, and the hearts of their Generals and you will win the war".
The wise Indian owls are making Sun Tzu
walk on his head!!
We need technology and
state-of-the-art systems across the board, from weapons, armaments, guns,
missiles, ships, and aircrafts along with surveillance and communication equipment.
Import of weapons and weapon systems allows the exporting countries to hold us to ransom, particularly at critical junctures. We, therefore, need to develop an indigenous private defence industry, as the DRDO and PSUs have proved unequal to the task of developing cutting edge technology, not withstanding our successful missile and space programmes. The powerful "Gaushala" stakeholders must be put in their place.
Import of weapons and weapon systems allows the exporting countries to hold us to ransom, particularly at critical junctures. We, therefore, need to develop an indigenous private defence industry, as the DRDO and PSUs have proved unequal to the task of developing cutting edge technology, not withstanding our successful missile and space programmes. The powerful "Gaushala" stakeholders must be put in their place.
Make no mistake; attack on
Pathankot Air Force Base was an Act of War, (AoW), as were the earlier attacks at Gurdaspur, Mumbai 26/11, Parliament, Kalu Chak and numerous others. Our blundering responses have remained unchanged, despite the PMs bellicosity, pre & post-election.
With the calling of the PM's bluff by Pakistan, our Govt's stand has got deflated to a 'spirit of compromise and accommodation'.
This pathetic state of affairs can change only when we firmly resolve that every attack on India, including Kashmir, is an act of war, with the sanction of the ISI/Pak Army.
Bleating at every act of treachery by Pakistan is laughable. What do we have as a deterrent? USA? The more we succumb to pressures to discuss Kashmir, the more relevant we make Pakistan’s case of their right on Kashmir, and help them keep it alive in international forums.
Kashmir is an integral part of India. Take Kashmir off the negotiating table. In politics and diplomacy, stupidity and indecisions also need to have 'red lines', with an expiry date. We started right by cancelling the recent talks, but then succumbed subsequently.
With the calling of the PM's bluff by Pakistan, our Govt's stand has got deflated to a 'spirit of compromise and accommodation'.
This pathetic state of affairs can change only when we firmly resolve that every attack on India, including Kashmir, is an act of war, with the sanction of the ISI/Pak Army.
Bleating at every act of treachery by Pakistan is laughable. What do we have as a deterrent? USA? The more we succumb to pressures to discuss Kashmir, the more relevant we make Pakistan’s case of their right on Kashmir, and help them keep it alive in international forums.
Kashmir is an integral part of India. Take Kashmir off the negotiating table. In politics and diplomacy, stupidity and indecisions also need to have 'red lines', with an expiry date. We started right by cancelling the recent talks, but then succumbed subsequently.
We need to clear the cob
webs of perceived hurt to Uncle Sam. They didn’t ask us when they decided to
turn the world topsy-turvy with their action in Iraq and Syria and Afganistan and then quietly withdraw from the scene, expecting the world to clean up after them.
The stark truth is that we neither have the political will to take such major decisions nor the capability to back them up with action. Pakistan, through its ISI, has been doing exactly that for decades, despite global slamming; taking full advantage of our dithering, and the absence of a considered policy on Kashmir.
We get too bogged down in trivialities : Article 370 and AFSPA. There is a lack of vision and a plan to assimilate the Kashmiris into the mainstream. Resettling Pandits in the Valley is an ill-conceived plan, with few takers. They need to be themselves convinced that they would go back and assimilate themselves in their original neighbourhood. It is a battle of 'hearts and mind'.
The stark truth is that we neither have the political will to take such major decisions nor the capability to back them up with action. Pakistan, through its ISI, has been doing exactly that for decades, despite global slamming; taking full advantage of our dithering, and the absence of a considered policy on Kashmir.
We get too bogged down in trivialities : Article 370 and AFSPA. There is a lack of vision and a plan to assimilate the Kashmiris into the mainstream. Resettling Pandits in the Valley is an ill-conceived plan, with few takers. They need to be themselves convinced that they would go back and assimilate themselves in their original neighbourhood. It is a battle of 'hearts and mind'.
When the US Armed Forces
leave Afghanistan, Pakistan is going to up the ante there through escalated Jihadi strikes, confident in the belief that USA and Europian Union will not allow
India to further destabilise their Nuclear instability, a bogey that Pakistan
plays to the hilt.
As long as the unhealthy culture
of power broker and turf wars continue to hold the Country and its security to ransom and deliberately sideline the Armed Forces, there can never be a strong, well analysed and balanced PMESP, (Political, Military, Economic and Strategic Perspective).
We should be convinced by now that the Pak Army and its ISI will always keep hitting India with their 'paltu' so called non-state actors (jihadis), and claiming helplessness under the excuse of being victims of terrorist attacks, glossing over the fact that the snakes were raised by them in their own backyard and a section of them have now gone out of control.
It is foolhardy to assume that the Babus and the Political masters, advised by the NSA, can deliver the needful. It is essential to have strategists from the three Services on board, for planning and decision making. We should stop mouthing empty threats. It only shows up our ineptitude and the lack of political will in decision making and follow-up actions.
T N Ninan perfectly sized up the
Babus, (including the Foreign Service), when he said, "Bureaucrats are trained
to follow rules and precedents. Most of them are administrators, not problem
solving Managers. New ideas come from politicians, technocrats and civil society
activists'.
All that the Babus do behind scenes, is practise the Queens English, with preferably an American accent to boot. Let them be happy with what they are good at doing, i.e., doing nothing; let the experts and professionals do their jobs, leaving the follow-up admisnistrative actions, such as ensuring the funds for the security needs are not lost in the 'Babu snail mail', to the former.
MAKE THE BABUS ACCOUNTABLE.
Do not let the Babus seek protection for inaction under Section 13(1)(D)(III) of the PCA a.k.a.. 'No decision made in view of perceived persecution'. What a joke that has been!!!
All that the Babus do behind scenes, is practise the Queens English, with preferably an American accent to boot. Let them be happy with what they are good at doing, i.e., doing nothing; let the experts and professionals do their jobs, leaving the follow-up admisnistrative actions, such as ensuring the funds for the security needs are not lost in the 'Babu snail mail', to the former.
MAKE THE BABUS ACCOUNTABLE.
Do not let the Babus seek protection for inaction under Section 13(1)(D)(III) of the PCA a.k.a.. 'No decision made in view of perceived persecution'. What a joke that has been!!!
A strong Military is the only guarantee for stability and progress. It must be made capable of defending the Country against external aggression, at all cost. Don't demoralise it.
We suffer from deliriums (not
delusions) of grandeur, where talks and debate have given way to grand
standing; 'vivad' has been trashed for 'fasad'(trouble making- disruption),
local issues have gone global; the 'Rath' has been grounded for the
'Viman'. The Military is demoralised by the shabby treatment metted out to the soldier, both serving and veterans.
The universal perception today is -
- NRIs are running the Country;
- soldiers can be classified below the chaprasis and the Military officers can be graded as Class II;
- a fear psychosis pervades all dissenters and minorities due to vigilantism and biased police action;
- the present govt is no different from/better than the previous ones;
What is the solution?
- Restore the plurality of and freedom enshrined in the Constitution.
- Ban the Bans.
- Materialise the promise of 'minimum Govt and maximum governance'. Keep the Babus in check.
- Cut out the pattern of 'slogan a day' and oral filibuster and replace it with concrete actions.
- Work towards unity of the Nation, and enhance its 'unity in diversity' through demonstrated action.
- Last, but not the least, give the soldier, the unfallable line of defence of the unity and integrity of Bharat, his/her rightful place, both in status and pelf, so that he can then not have to worry about the sustenance of his people back home.
Jai Hind
It is very unfortunate that,instead of strengthening our country,our trusted leadership has betrayed our Nation while taking-over the reigns from the British. Most obviously, they have bequeathed our hard-earned Independence, to an unknown power,for destruction.
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