This is a fantastic webinar to watch if you are really interested in understanding the Taiwan Crisis and the reality of PLA live firing drills
‘Sir, will China invade us?’ ‘We hear China has increased activities on the border’. Chinese consolidation activities on the LAC have prompted such reactions and fears. Lot of such inquiries from citizens within and outside India. Why? Bodies floating down Ganga, mass graves, lack of oxygen, medicines or hospital beds, botched vaccination program, uninterrupted work on Central Vista - all these have eroded our political capital immensely and seeded such doubts. Our national institutions are being compared to ‘rottweilers’ in the media. Economy? Unemployment figures and stock markets – both rattling up. Strangest combination. Rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. An ominous divergence which bodes ill. Leadership? Kis Chidiya ka naam hai bhai? National level paralysis in responding to the second wave. Erosion in comprehensive national power. Many have never experienced India being so weak. Nor did I for that matter. This frightening experience ...
Sir, with increasing automation and the great strides in the sciences of longevity, is a decrease in population really going to be much of an issue ? It is well within the realm of possibility that by 2040 an advanced society may be capable of mass deploying technologies like exo-skeletons which will be great force multipliers at the individual soldier level. A vast and young population may well be a liability as we see in the case of Pakistan. We just cannot afford to allow the technology gap to widen and must constantly be thinking of enhancing the lethal capabilities of our exemplary fighting force at the unit level.
ReplyDeleteCan we start with selling Brahmos batteries to Taiwan if they are interested ? If we cannot do that for fear of Chinese reaction, despite their proliferation of nuclear and missile technology to Pakistan and fomenting of various insurgencies in the north east, do we really have independence in our policies ?
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