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ANALYSIS OF A FAKE MICROWAVE OVEN AT LADAKH by LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)

THIS ANALYSIS IS A SORT OF ' MICROWAVE WEAPONS FOR DUMMIES' KIND. EASY TO GRASP FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT TECHNOLOGY BEYOND A POINT                              The Chinese Claim Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Beijing’s Renmin University claimed that China had used a “microwave weapon” to retake land that had been occupied by the Indian Army on the southern bank of the  Pangong Tso  . He claimed that Chinese forces had turned two strategic hilltops occupied by Indian soldiers “into a microwave oven”, forcing them to retreat, and allowing the positions to be retaken without an exchange of conventional fire. “Within 15 minutes of the weapons being deployed, those occupying the hilltops all began to vomit. They couldn’t stand up, so they fled. This was how we retook the ground,” the professor (does he really exist?) reportedly told his students during a lecture. This report was filed by the ‘The Times’ in UK and in ‘The Australian’. The Indian Army

SINO INDIAN LOGJAM - THE CHINESE THREE CARD TRICK by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)

Earlier Articles In Series   Sino Indian Logjam – A Review @  https://www.gunnersshot.com/2020/08/sino-indian-logjam-review-by-lt-gen-p-r.html   No Go For China in the Logjam  @  https://www.gunnersshot.com/2020/09/no-go-for-china-in-logjam-by-lt-gen-p-r.html   Sino Indian Logjam : Aim, Capability and Environmental Analysis @  https://www.gunnersshot.com/2020/09/sino-indian-logjam-aim-capability-and.html   Sino Indian Logjam : Facts, Risks, Options and the Sum of all Fears @  https://www.gunnersshot.com/2020/09/sino-indian-logjam-facts-risks-options.html Sino Indian Logjam: The W inter  Haul @https://www.gunnersshot.com/2020/10/sino-indian-logjam-winter-haul-by-lt.html     As Ladakh has got colder Chinese have indulged in a Three Card Trick. Give up Finger 4. Gain Kailash Range. Retain Depsang.  Natural and expected from the ever untrustworthy Chinese. However, we need to see why they are doing it and what our reaction should be. There has been no action on the battlefield except it ha

INDO US STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP : A REALITY CHECK by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)

HAPPY DEEPAWALI TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY   The Basic Architecture   The India-U.S. bilateral cooperation is broad-based. Its vista is multisectoral - trade and investment, defence and security, education, science and technology, cyber security, high-tech, civil nuclear energy, space technology and applications, clean energy, environment, agriculture and health.  The India-U.S. Dialogue Architecture consists of a high level 2+2 dialogue and more than 50 other bilateral dialogue mechanisms. People-to-people interaction is vibrant. This partnership cuts across the political spectrum in both countries. India and US are ‘Major Defence Partners’ with cooperation in counter-terrorism, intelligence sharing, information exchange, operational cooperation, technology, training  and equipment.   Pundits have aired views on how the new Biden administration will approach the Indo US relationship.  As the uncertainty of who will be the next US President, plays itself out, let me put it up front. The In

PAKISTANI PERFIDY REPEATED IN GILGIT AND BALTISTAN BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (RETD)

  This is an old map. Only to highlight certain issues.  Pakistan recently declared that  Gilgit and Baltistan will be its  fifth province . It has announced its decision to hold the GB Assembly  elections on November 15 . It is an illegal step. It is a repeat act by Pakistan during Independence when the area was usurped illegally with perfidy.  It has major implications for the region. It needs analysis.    Gilgit-Baltistan shares borders with, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (West), Wakhan Corridor (North), Xinjiang (East and NE), Kashmir Valley (South) and Leh (SE). It is also known as Balwaristan. It encompasses an area of approximately 73000 sq km with a population of about 2 million. Literacy rate is high. Its topography is like Leh. High wind-swept plains and snow-clad mountains. It is in the lap of the greatest mountain ranges of the world – Hindukush, Pamirs, Karakorams and Himalayas. Agriculture and Mountaineering Tourism dominate the economy. Skardu is connected to the Leh region through

PAKISTANI INSIGHTS BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (RETD)

Hello folks ....this is another attempt at honest plagiarism...best let Pakistanis describe their own situation... Something I discovered...for anything in Pakistan there is a precedence and there is a cartoon for it which says everything better than most words.    The opening partnership in Pakistan is continuing unabated. Run rate is slow. However the pace is fast and never ending…always threatening  to get out…always in super over mode... we often forget that Pakistan is the only nation where cricket is played with two batsmen from the same end……. When you read Pakistani papers, things meander along and suddenly there is a burst of activity and one gets rare insights into Pakistan. Here are a few more….click on the heading and you will go to the original article.         The Swindle Without End   For the past two years, we have seen one sector of the economy after another get hit by price spirals, attributed largely to a steep mismatch between supply and demand (or between cost of p