This should be awesome.
India and Pakistan are in the midst of massive war games along the Thar desert. Within a misfired shot from each other.
The Indian army has launched a month long exercise called Yodha Shakti (Warrior Strength). India will practice a pro-active war strategy to see how fast we can mobilize the forces in the eventuality of a serious act of aggression against the country. Like, say, the 26/11 attacks. Or the attack on Parliament.
Pakistan’s exercise is called Azm-e-Nau-III (New Resolve) and represents the country’s biggest war games in two decades.
Nothing big, just some 50,000 strong forces training for a war against India.
Up to 50,000 troops will take part in the games, which began on April 10 and will end on May 13 just 60 kilometres from the Indian border. [link]
So while India is going with the theme of muscle flexing, Pakistan is showing its resolve to give it back to its neighbor who, frankly, hasn’t done much more than flex its pumped up muscles in recent times.
Both countries are pretty much going to dance on the two sides of the same curtain, on either side of the Thar desert. Only, it will be MBTs (Main Battle Tanks) and HMGs (Heavy Machine Guns) doing the Salsa.
Of course, the air forces will also be there.
The wargames will also have a big IAF component in the drive to achieve greater synergy. Both the western and southwestern IAF commands have stepped up coordination with the different Army commands in the western theatre to synergize efforts to build “an integrated and organic” air-land war-fighting machinery. [link]
The Pakistan Army is using homemade Al-Khalid tanks and Anza Mark II missiles, while the Air Force is using not only US-made F-16s, but also locally assembled JF-17 Thunder aircraft. [link]
This entire drama throws up some interesting thoughts.
What if we all just call off the farce and have the two forces practice against each other?
If we are spending so much money, time, energy, and petrol (Those 50 ton beasts aren’t really optimized for mileage), why not just get it done with, once and for all?
You have everything deployed there already. We could either just go all out and try to demolish the other. Last man standing wins. End of terrorism.
What if we all just call off the farce and have the two forces practice against each other?
The other, and less expensive option is something similar to that T20 concept called super over. Mark a spot exactly one inch in diameter. Both sides take turns to shoot at it with their best tanks, from 4 miles away.
You get 10 shots each. Whoever gets the maximum hits wins.
Both countries then return the unused ammunition wherever it came from, and use the money to feed their people.
How about that?
(Image courtesy: rediff.com)
you know how humans trivialise anything that scares the bejaysus out of them? they call it “games” – wargames, lovegames, spacegames, educational games etcetc. pak is creating the mother of all diversions, 50k potential terrorists on our borders, who know how many will actually return home, how many will sneak into our golden land! the situation is ripe for an international incident, one stray bullet and all weel be wellll! maybe, this is one way of pak showing its mai-baap that hey, look, you can trust us with nuclear stuff! we are peaceful and onlee playing in our sandbox! it’s the bigbad indians who are the naughty ones shooting at our no-visa tourists into kashmir! the ultimate US dream? indo-pak wargames!! the ultimate world dream? sino-us wargames!
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ever think – “aa ab laut chalein”? i do, sometimes
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@ms – sino-us wargames! That would be super. I can totally visualize the press conference announcing the games starting with music from Armageddon.
aa ab laut chalen?
You mean back where we all came from? Nah…i’d rather spend some time with little aakraman. There’s still some time…
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lol
seriously finish it once n for all.
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HOW CAN U SAY
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War in itself is one huge fatally flawed game ! Sigh. When will we ever learn, to live harmoniously. You may say i am an idealist, dreamet et al…but is there a different way out ?!?
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@Reema – Amen.
@Kavi – Idealist indeed!
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Some people says that war is a solution Have you ever think that how destruction woud it create
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