His strategy may be okay if he just practiced and not preached. The fear is that by such irresponsible utterance, he will give opportunity to Pakistan to say that India is herself terrorist.  what we need is not to employ private terrorists to combat the terrorists from abroad. What we need is to adequately prepare our security forces and intelligence agencies to combat the terrorists.  

Knowing the past experiences with Pakistan who abet terrorism only to use against India, The defense minister realized that SOFT methods are of no use. In this context he reminded us that the present govt had given a freehand to the army to tackle the situation.. I support his views.

International arena is not helping Indian at all by supporting directly or indirectly to western neighbor as recently, India wants the dreaded terrorist to be named terrorist officially and all supported only China vetoed it three days back. As China has business concerns as well as some part of its are influence of terrorism and it wants to stay with India. In this case the best case is to leave army with its optimum powers and in war everything is fair as there could not be loss of human lives and property on one side. Previous govt. does not allow armed forces free hand but this govt is making armed forces to do whatever according to situation. Though it might not be successful or might be success but western neighbor is also hiring these terrorists for money and sending towards ours border then. Recently, Musharraf in an interview elaborated in detail about how armed intruders in Kargil war were hired. This tells all the story. 

India is an independent nation having its own army and an able leadership . Defeating Pakistan is not a new thing. Irrespective of international support we are capable of teaching any country that encourages terrorism against any country.

Parrikar has proved he has no idea of terrorism and how to counter it. No intelligent man could have made such a statement. Instead of talking he needs to act.

It might be the other way around as he is saying what India is not doing, as he was a person with high integrity and he knows what he is speaking about. 

Integrity is a different proposition. The real need is ACTION. Not mere words. If he can show action, of course he deserves all the praise under the sun.

rambabu wrote:

Integrity is a different proposition. The real need is ACTION. Not mere words. If he can show action, of course he deserves all the praise under the sun.

ACTION is something that can only be done in case you have total military and air superiority like USA. This India does not have even against Pakistan and any action will backfire badly. As a soldier let me inform that the next war even with Pakistan will not be like 1971. As a soldier I can say that there is a element of exasperation creeping into the armed forces due to government policies.

The feeling in the armed forces is that they are not getting their due in terms of pay and privileges. Also the force levels vs both China and Pakistan is abysmally low. In a detailed post I shall bring it out. As an example, the Indian army has 3 divisions facing China's 30.

MG Singh wrote:

rambabu wrote:

Integrity is a different proposition. The real need is ACTION. Not mere words. If he can show action, of course he deserves all the praise under the sun.

ACTION is something that can only be done in case you have total military and air superiority like USA. This India does not have even against Pakistan and any action will backfire badly. As a soldier let me inform that the next war even with Pakistan will not be like 1971. As a soldier I can say that there is a element of exasperation creeping into the armed forces due to government policies.

 

I can understand. No one can be a better judge than you because you lived and experienced in the Real things. My appreciations and respects to you .