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Indeed. But any time these topics are discussed, we'll inevitably get someone arguing about how Canada isn't Europe, ignoring the fact that half our population lives along a 1200 km linear corridor with near European regional population density.

Two things India did well that we could learn from. 1) IADS. Against a whole variety of threats from cruise missiles to drones. And unlike the Pakistanis didn't take much damage. 2) Naval deterrence. They seem to have bottled in the Pakistani Navy. There's arguments made that the PN were...

Good article. But also a reminder that all military spending is about tanks and fighter jets and submarines.

Every Indian is doing this. From the media to my own Indian relatives. All playing up some Pyrrhic and token missile strikes while completely missing the forest for the trees: that the Indian performance was so poor that its enemies might actually be emboldened. Literally played at the...

As I said above, the Chinese got to test out a bunch of things. Like their ability to provide satellite imagery and surveillance products in near real-time. This also speaks to how naive the Indians were to not understand this risk and plan deception.

The 9 years is your initial engagement contract. There's no obligatory service. If you leave before, however, your benefits may be impacted. That change in benefits is also true if you go from Reg F to Res.

Less money. More experience. China just got a massive chance to test their sensor-shooter loop, their kit and TTPs against the Indians. That's worth a lot more to them than any sales. The only hope here is that the Indians were so incompetent that lessons learned don't, hopefully, threaten...

Nah. You're going off all the nationalistic Indian denialism that is screeching for proof on the internet. And that's fine to protect their ego and pride. But it won't change objective reality. That they launched and were picked up near the border is a fact. This shows either arrogance or...

Decent summary that I've seen about the air battle. Some takeaways for us. 1) AEW really matters. We should stop pretending it's a nice-to-have. Both on offence and defence. 2) Stealth would have dramatically improved the survivability of the Indian strike packages. 3) Working without...

Diasporas get along everywhere. That has very little to do with the geopolitics of their home countries. Pakistan is a country that is literally owned by its army. Peace, for them, means the end of their gravy train. They are very much incentivized to keep up the instability. They did it in...

Full disclosure. I'm of Indian descent. And I think this should be absolutely embarrassing for India. The way this has played out for India has been absolutely devastating. If this happened with any Western military, there would be many firings, forced retirements and hearings. Yet, in...

Where's all the folks that said retention wasn't all that important because recruiting was up? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-retention-program-defunding-1.7536509

They've got problems too....

I mean now that they lost Link 11 and have no plan for Link 16......

I am curious to see if this will realign India more towards the Western camp. And away from that BRICS nonsense.

The targets picked seem deliberately calibrated to do that. Pakistan has previously insinuated this would cross a nuclear redline since it could be existential for them. Similarly for any naval blockade. Though I imagine, China would ramp up before to try and ease the pressure.

And ALEs. That's probably where a lot of LMs will end up for a small military like us.

They are overdue for a scrap.

Once a commodity is scarce or can be controlled, it can be weaponized. India is doing just that in response to alleged recent terrorism from Pakistan. And since water management (too much or too little) is existential for Pakistan well.... In the past, it's been alluded to that cutting off...

The L3 offering (Global CAEW) should be AAR capable.