SOURCE:DNA
The month long standoff between the Indian army and the PLA has not seen any deesclations. Amid the concerns the China has increased its naval presence in the Indian Ocean. However the indian navy has a close watch on the PLA activities in the IOR region.
The condition in the Indian subcontinent escalated after chinese attempt to acquire the plateau in the INDIA CHINA BHUTAN tri junction that belong to the Bhutan which itself is in the protectorate of the India is not set to lose the point as its fall will endanger its connectivity to its north eastern states. India is said to be closely monitoring the movement of the chinese destroyers and the submarine support ship that is now present in the karachi gjibouti and the IOR region. The upcoming Malabar excerscises which is going to include the USA Japan and the Indian Navy is going to be strong message.
The month long standoff between the Indian army and the PLA has not seen any deesclations. Amid the concerns the China has increased its naval presence in the Indian Ocean. However the indian navy has a close watch on the PLA activities in the IOR region.
The condition in the Indian subcontinent escalated after chinese attempt to acquire the plateau in the INDIA CHINA BHUTAN tri junction that belong to the Bhutan which itself is in the protectorate of the India is not set to lose the point as its fall will endanger its connectivity to its north eastern states. India is said to be closely monitoring the movement of the chinese destroyers and the submarine support ship that is now present in the karachi gjibouti and the IOR region. The upcoming Malabar excerscises which is going to include the USA Japan and the Indian Navy is going to be strong message.
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India has slept for too long. Yudha kale shastrabhyasaha:
The Indian Navy, like the US Navy is bringing up dreadnoughts and capital ships like the Knights of medieval Europe while Russia is moving into smaller, faster, ships with greater stamina, flexibility and higher fire power like Genghis Khan's Mongols. (Remember the Battle of Trafalgar?)
India is endowed with natural if static Eastern and Western fleets of aircraft carriers, missile cruisers, submarine bases and so in its archipelagos that India has ignored because of its land-locked perspective to expend enormous and unnecessary sums on "Navy Build Up" in imitation of obsolete Navies, Naval Forces Naval Ideas that rest on an economic base and a global agenda that it will take India a century to even aspire to AFTER it puts an end to bad laws, perverted constitution and the reservations-extortion raj this has fostered.
This is all old time "Show the flag", "Fleet review", and "Capital ship" assessments of naval profiling. How does showing the flag here and there strengthen a navy?
For example, by concentrating its Naval forces around Karwar, The Indian Navy has effectively unlearned the lesson of Vizag and PNS Ghazi. Not to mention Pearl Harbour, the Battle of Trafalgar and the sinking of the Bismark! Now the enemy knows exactly where to take out the Western Fleet, all that remains is the "how" and the "When",
I have maintained since the 1970s that India needs to have a large number of tiny bases and tiny but sharp toothed ships, subs, missiles and aircraft that can be moved around between bases to cluster or swarm as necessary. Not just along the coast but along India's extensive archipelagos of the Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Minicoy and Andamans.
The Indian Navy is locked into a pre Second World War parading of Dread Noughts and Fortresses more redolent of medieval Rajasthan. If at all it is possible to create a Maginot line in the oceans, The Indian Navy will succeed in doing so! This reminds me of very junior chess players painstakingly building a bulwark of pawns against a superior and dynamic player who delivers a check mate with a few deft moves and a sacrifice or two.
Look at Russia. In deploying small ships with extraordinary fire power in Crimea, they have demonstrated what I have been trying, in vain, to tell India for decades. My lack of success is primarily due to India trying to become a "me too" "toys for the boys" Navy like the US without any regard to India's strategic or tactical needs, affordability or lie of the land.
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