Political Turmoil – 07 / 2020 26, July, 2020

Friends & Critics – KARGIL DAY SPECIAL

            Some Facts of three past major, military events of the country. We shall also discuss Trust Worthy, Or Un Trust Worthy  Friends or our True Friends.

A-     1962 – famous Chinese debacle : (a) Just 10 year had passed to India’s Independence (After the first General Elections held in 1952.) WW – 2 had just ended in 1945. New global military alignments were in the offing. A new world order militarily (NATO – WARSAPACT) and separate NAM Non Alignment was being experimented. The top Indian political leadership was literally sandwiched between these three classicals. Our political leadership lead by JLN tried the old Gandhian thoughts. May be Nehru dint succeed (for the information Sardar Patel the Iron Man had died on 15 Dec. 1950).

B-     1971 – The famous Bangladesh War. : (a) The great visionary leadership of Indira Gandhi. (b) She utilized the INT agencies fully. (c) The first high jacking in 1971 was master minded by our RAW and the Pakis were held responsible. This initiated the stoppages of overflights of PAK military Aircraft from WEST to EAST. (d) Excellent equation of military and political leadership. (e) Diplomatic reach to world leaders. She Signed a 20 years military and political friendship treaty with the erstwhile USSR, and sent her other senior cabinet colleagues to other countries to make India’s position clear and known. (f)  An other example of excellent usages of int was to leak out to PAK’S that India would attack on third December. (Where as it was planned for 4^th Dec.) PAK’S were trapped and they took an offensive on 3^rd Dec. and India started pouncing them on 4^th Dec. Morning. India attained Air Superiority in first 3 days and finished the war in just 13 days (which was expected to last about 20 days).

C-     1999 – ABV (a) close the door of INT. (b) Too much of trustworthiness and expectation. (c) October 1998 INT agencies were adviset go slow on PAK because the leadership was over whelmed by February 1999 Bus Yatra. (For detail on Kargil War u may go through my post on blog : http://airmarshalashokgoel.blogspot.com/).

D-     2020 - Galwan Vally  (East of Ladakh) (a) Lacked Intelligence (b) A white paper should be circulated by the GOI. Indicating LAC as perceived by India and as dictated by Chinese (c) Position of Troops on of May 2014, Sep. 2014 (this was the first visit XI to India). Since our PM has had 12 meetings with XI in India or abroad. (d)  Position of troops as on 05 May 2020, on 05 June, 14 June. This would generate the confidence of 130 corer people of India in our top leadership.  

Trust Worthy / Un Trust Worthy or True Friends

A-    After 1962 War Americans offered massive military aid to India. What actually offered was only an organization called DGS. That is Directorate General of Security. We got three Wings ARC, SFF and SSB. They also gave us some C-46 Aircraft, The aim was (as spelt out by Americans) to capture Tibet by Airborne operations. Which remained a dream and continues to be a dream. The US have proved from Time to Time Un Trust Worthy except occasionally when Big dollar related Military Equipments is to be inducted. Only true friend has been erstwhile USSR or now RUSSIA.

JAI HIND – JAI BHARAT