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I realise that. You must understand that you are dealing with an old man and an ultra-sensitive one at that. Your posts have always been measured and balanced, even on the most harrowing of topics, and I have enjoyed reading them, and will continue to take great pleasure in reading them. It's...

It cannot.

Are you?

Chief, let me clarify. I posted SIX times on the Ukraine - Russia conflict. NOT ONE of them mentioned Bangladesh. Please do NOT tag me in a routine manner. I thank you in advance.

Which post of mine was that? PS: @Nilgiri and @Joe Shearer are two different individuals. Just for the record.

Good enough.

I think you got me wrong. My stand is not that it is better over there, but that it is a known territory and a clearly demarcated territory. Over here, I have already been confronted twice. Are there no confrontations there? Of course there are, both from green extremists and from saffron...

What is happening in Pakistan now is pathetic. I feel very, very sorry for the Pakistanis, and for those who are so confused about what to do in this situation. Even at the worst of times, we have (not yet) faced such a situation.

How much is the paperback version? Not asking you for serious time off, but do take a look at the question I have asked, just above.

I'd like your opinions. This is the problem. We have around 1.2 million troops under arms and in services. That's across 39 divisions. 10 divisions, perhaps 12, face the PLA, and the remaining 29 divisions, perhaps 27, face the Pakistan Army. The uncertainty is due to the uncertainty regarding...

I was hoping you would be joining us sooner, and am very agitated it took you so long. I am putting down, first, the command- and corps-wise ORBAT, to add divisions and brigades to it later.

My problem is with the bhakts. Even though so many of those setting up Strategic Forum were well known to me, even though I was at a time privy to some sensitive discussions there, I cannot bring myself to participate there, and never could, from the outset, because they had too many Sanghis...

Noted. Very seriously.

Isn't this exactly what we need in the high plains of Ladakh?

True, O Sage. So very true.

What an opportunity! Those who have worked on the ORBAT of the Pakistani Army and the Indian Army as these organisations face each other over 3,300 kms of troubled borders will have noticed that the Pakistani Army is distributed in linear fashion, north to south, starting from a station named...

Being stubborn about one's principles does not - should not! - preclude periods of silence, while one plans an organised retirement. My biggest mistake - many times repeated, always regretted.

If I were to say my say, it would be on the unstable balance between protection, firepower and mobility at the micro-level, and the difficulties of balancing human resource against capital-intensive machinery at a higher than micro-level. It is clear that all of us will comment in the context...

I have a lot to say, but am busy absorbing all that has been said so far by people who know what they are talking about. This is a good time to listen, rather than to talk.

My younger self, it is to be hoped, would say, "Good for you! You didn't compromise." My older self would say, "That's fine, but you could have taken better care of your money."