I am pleased with what I have written in the wee hours at 4.30 with anguish before any newspaper struck my door on 27th. All the respected news channels like NDTV, Times Now concluded with deliberations with the same kind of note and line of thought as mine at the end of the day.
Yes, we succeeded combating the terrorist with great amount of precision and courage. Now, we encounter with a two big questions. How prepared are we to face this kind of attacks, and what are are over all defence capabilities ? We have to make a careful note that after all this, the destroyer achieved what he wanted to gain . He could kill many, capture many, trumatised us for number of hours, sent an crystal-clear message to the western world that he can srike them where ever they are. Is this not enough?
Our police inadequately armed and ill informed about combating strategies in this kind of situations went and lost their lives to an uncouth perpetrator, and in particular few of their meritorious kind. We were relentlessly punched and punished for the past few years. Still we don't learn our lessons? We are vexed with our leader's constant blame games, terror politics. We stop, startle when some thing happens, after few days every thing goes on smoothly till we get another blow. Is it not rediculous to see our police running with service revolvers and out dated rusted guns aginst an ultra modern terrorist with Ak 47 and other weaponry? Don't we ever envisage that our police force has to be modernised, imparted better training, and we have a need to set up special cells to face this kind of exigencies?. Are we able to petrol our long coast lines, and long borders effectively? The answer is catagorical"NO". We have to come interms with a harsh reality that terrorism is going to be there, and we are the unmistakable sure targets for nieghbouring terrorism and also international terrorism. When will we do that?
Our government thinks of 6 th pay commission to it's desk employees in it's numerous non functional departments by counting it's sheer number of votes, unmindful of it's jawans who come to their recue in every single baffling dirty situation fighting their goondas on the streets, controlling their unruly mobs, communal violences, seperatist elements apart from laying their lives for the noble cause of protecting borders , high seas, and skies. Are we rewarding them properly? Or we are ignoring them just because they dont go on strikes? or stage dharnas? Thankfully our armed force chiefs have been traditionally very loyal to the governments posing no threat to it's soverignity. But we have to bear in mind that it is unwise and unsafe to displease them to the extent of their outright rejection of pay commission recommendations. Is it a silent message that we have to deal with them with due consideration ? How are rulers taking this message?
It is better the lesser we talk about our defence euipment. We suffered for years with every other day crashing MIG 20s in the past due to our horrirific balace of payments situation. We had to compromise with MIRAGE 2000s which are no match to our neghbouring American supplied F16s. Much tainted Bofors was utter trash. All our DRDLs, HALs, and so many other enterprises do not produce any thing worth the name even after decades of their inception. Any foreign arm's dealer can dump his obsolete trash in our back yard just by pleasing our corrupt bosses with coppers. It takes decades for us to think of Long range ballistic missiles possed by our giant neighbour China who can pleasingly strike any of our cities by sipping a cup of tea sitting in his coutch. We always intent to buy a sinking warship paying exhorbitant price, due to improper approach in strategic affairs. We dont lack in experts , but we dont' listen to them for various reasons. We do not entrust a technical matter to an expert without our unskilled political intervention. We compromise our defence needs for the sake of our personal gains. With what kind of pride we can live in this world among countries who prioritise their defence, health, education above all other considerations . Our iniability to sufficiently allocate budgets to defence , stemming from our prority to our useless populistic programmes to stick to our power , results in improper supply of equipment to our jawans including their socks and boots impairing their effective functioning on the fronts. What a shame !! Inspite of our shamful situations if our jawans are performing with mettle it is simply because of their exemplary decipline and commitment and bove all indelible patriotism.
Yes, we succeeded combating the terrorist with great amount of precision and courage. Now, we encounter with a two big questions. How prepared are we to face this kind of attacks, and what are are over all defence capabilities ? We have to make a careful note that after all this, the destroyer achieved what he wanted to gain . He could kill many, capture many, trumatised us for number of hours, sent an crystal-clear message to the western world that he can srike them where ever they are. Is this not enough?
Our police inadequately armed and ill informed about combating strategies in this kind of situations went and lost their lives to an uncouth perpetrator, and in particular few of their meritorious kind. We were relentlessly punched and punished for the past few years. Still we don't learn our lessons? We are vexed with our leader's constant blame games, terror politics. We stop, startle when some thing happens, after few days every thing goes on smoothly till we get another blow. Is it not rediculous to see our police running with service revolvers and out dated rusted guns aginst an ultra modern terrorist with Ak 47 and other weaponry? Don't we ever envisage that our police force has to be modernised, imparted better training, and we have a need to set up special cells to face this kind of exigencies?. Are we able to petrol our long coast lines, and long borders effectively? The answer is catagorical"NO". We have to come interms with a harsh reality that terrorism is going to be there, and we are the unmistakable sure targets for nieghbouring terrorism and also international terrorism. When will we do that?
Our government thinks of 6 th pay commission to it's desk employees in it's numerous non functional departments by counting it's sheer number of votes, unmindful of it's jawans who come to their recue in every single baffling dirty situation fighting their goondas on the streets, controlling their unruly mobs, communal violences, seperatist elements apart from laying their lives for the noble cause of protecting borders , high seas, and skies. Are we rewarding them properly? Or we are ignoring them just because they dont go on strikes? or stage dharnas? Thankfully our armed force chiefs have been traditionally very loyal to the governments posing no threat to it's soverignity. But we have to bear in mind that it is unwise and unsafe to displease them to the extent of their outright rejection of pay commission recommendations. Is it a silent message that we have to deal with them with due consideration ? How are rulers taking this message?
It is better the lesser we talk about our defence euipment. We suffered for years with every other day crashing MIG 20s in the past due to our horrirific balace of payments situation. We had to compromise with MIRAGE 2000s which are no match to our neghbouring American supplied F16s. Much tainted Bofors was utter trash. All our DRDLs, HALs, and so many other enterprises do not produce any thing worth the name even after decades of their inception. Any foreign arm's dealer can dump his obsolete trash in our back yard just by pleasing our corrupt bosses with coppers. It takes decades for us to think of Long range ballistic missiles possed by our giant neighbour China who can pleasingly strike any of our cities by sipping a cup of tea sitting in his coutch. We always intent to buy a sinking warship paying exhorbitant price, due to improper approach in strategic affairs. We dont lack in experts , but we dont' listen to them for various reasons. We do not entrust a technical matter to an expert without our unskilled political intervention. We compromise our defence needs for the sake of our personal gains. With what kind of pride we can live in this world among countries who prioritise their defence, health, education above all other considerations . Our iniability to sufficiently allocate budgets to defence , stemming from our prority to our useless populistic programmes to stick to our power , results in improper supply of equipment to our jawans including their socks and boots impairing their effective functioning on the fronts. What a shame !! Inspite of our shamful situations if our jawans are performing with mettle it is simply because of their exemplary decipline and commitment and bove all indelible patriotism.
When we will learn our lessons? It is high time for introspection, and correction. No country without invincible defence system and strong economics is ever respected in this world of pragmatists who weigh one's presence visa-vis one's strength and capability.
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