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Then I owe you an apology for not coming to your defence earlier. Normally, I don't get involved with PDF any more, but this series of vile comments by two of them was so bad that I was forced to get in there. I should have gauged their very poor quality earlier and interposed myself. Apologies.

Not too sure about what you wrote. Maybe we can talk about it - elsewhere.

I like your response but I sincerely believe you are wrong. We can discuss this, on a suitable thread, not this one.

Soon. I owe my primary responsibility to this forum. It is just that I want to mill down the rough edges of my analysis a little. And thank you for your good wishes. Were you VKDIndian or something similar on PDF?

The individual wasn't threatened, couldn't be threatened directly, due to his living abroad. Apparently close relatives and friends, and moderators who live in Pakistan, and their close relatives and friends had been threatened. The concerned people are staying very quiet, and quite clearly do...

Aren't you the lucky one? :-)

All that happened in PDF towards the end, and is happening in the replacement, convinces me that I need to look deep within myself, identify those areas of military interest that I personally wish to pursue, and pursue those, and confine myself to helping preserve the orderly behaviour of the...

It happened while I was absent from the forum for a period, engaged in personal matters. I was shocked when I returned and found that he was gone.

Even this, as we can see in progress, is vulnerable. Stating what is not up for debate is a statement, and nothing prevents those who have a majority of public opinion backing them, even if the backing is for other reasons, from debating those taboo things. Nothing can stop a determined and...

Beautiful post. I would like to keep up this conversation. That was not an ego trip; there is a plan of analysis. Will return very shortly.

This is disturbing. First, for decades, you don't get guns. Everything winds down and the entire machinery and the people handling it look more and more tired. Now, you get guns. You get all the guns you can want. So what would the natural way forward be? Forgive me for thinking that the...

Hang on. I thought that TGS was guided by their wanting the Israeli 155 mm howitzer.

Sounds good. Let's see where this takes us.

Not yet. It is proposed that we will buy and deploy those truck-mounted 105 mm guns designed by Kalyani, 200 of them. I am referring to that.

Very well said. Get the same response from all my relatives, friends and former colleagues.

Once it is truck-mounted, doesn't that count as self-propelled?

The thing that jumps out of these charts to an Indian eye is the stunning blow given to India by colonial rule and the marked emergence of the colonising country as a super-power. At one time, the Royal Navy was stronger than the entire balance, with some exception granted to the United States...

It is not so straightforward. The best educated people migrate. The richest people have shown a tendency to migrate of recent years. The two are emphatically not the same. The best educated people are best educated, so to speak, largely by passing very difficult entrance examinations to the...

Oh yes! Let me get out of the mess of housework, and I'd like to reply to this. I've been looking at capacities of several shipyards, including Mazagon, Goa, Karwar (implicit), Beypore (neglected, but so, so important), Kochi, L&T's new yard north of Chennai, on the verges of Pulicat, Kakinada...

It was Surinder Singh, who was handling the central Kargil and Dras sectors, who got shafted, Devinder, doing Batalik, got away with glancing injuries. The top four - Malik, Chief of Army Staff, H. M. Khanna, Northern Army Commander (or was it then the Western Army? Don't remember), Krishan...