India And The World

[Capt M Kumar]

It is still early in Dr Singh’s second term as prime minister. The opposition is in disarray with both the Left and the Right still recovering from the serious blow they received in the general elections. With President Obama showing a renewed commitment to Afghanistan, the time to act is now. All that is required is for the UPA government to summon the requisite political will and rally the nation by making a clear military and political case for India’s armed involvement in the Afghanistan. For that, it is imperative that India’s military planners develop and have on the ready a comprehensive, well-thought out policy option involving the deployment of Indian troops in Afghanistan.



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As a soldier au fait with India’s national security scenario, I totally disagaree with this assessment that India can send many well equipped and trained divisions to Afghanistan in a combat role. Where are these divisions to come from? We have two nuclear powers sitting on our doorsteps.We are raising/have raised two more mountains divisions expressly to counter the threat to Arunachal. Secondly how are these divisions to be moved from India to Afghanistan? By road-Nix. By sea-which port? By air? We just do not have the transport air capability. We should continue training the Afghan Security Forces as we are now doing and even arm them.