“Sanctions could lead to retaliatory action, and that would trigger a spiral with unforeseeable consequences,”
warns China’s envoy to Germany adding that “we don’t see any point in
sanctions.” On the heels of Merkel’s warning that Russia risked
“massive” political and economic damage if it did not change course, Reuters reports
ambassador Shi Mingde urged patience saying “the door is still open”
for diplomacy (though we suspect it is not) ahead of this weekend’s
referendum. Russia’s Deputy Economy Minister Alexei Likhachev responded
by promising “symmetrical” sanctions by Moscow. So now we have China joining the fray more aggressively.
China’s top envoy to
Germany has warned the West against punishing Russia with sanctions for
its intervention in Ukraine, saying such measures could lead to a
dangerous chain reaction that would be difficult to control.
In an interview with Reuters days before the European Union is
threatening to impose its first sanctions on Russia since the Cold War,
ambassador Shi Mingde issued the strongest warning against such measures
by any top Chinese official to date. “We don’t see any point in sanctions,” Shi said. “Sanctions
could lead to retaliatory action, and that would trigger a spiral with
unforeseeable consequences. We don’t want this.” … Using her [Merkel's] toughest rhetoric since the crisis began,
she warned in a speech in parliament on Thursday that Russia risked
“massive” political and economic damage if it did not change course in
the coming days. Russia’s Deputy Economy Minister Alexei Likhachev responded
by promising “symmetrical” sanctions by Moscow. But Shi urged patience,
saying the door for talks should remain open even after a referendum on
Sunday in which Ukraine’s southern region of Crimea could vote to
secede and join Russia. Merkel and other western leaders have denounced
the referendum as illegal and demanded that it be canceled. “We still see a chance to avoid an escalation. The door to
talks is still open. We should use this possibility, also after the
referendum,” Shi said.
After the Referendum, so when Russia is already in control. More
importantly, China joins the fray with threats over West’s sanctions.
Perhaps BTFWWIIID will make a re-appearance any minute now.
PLZ-07 self-propelled howitzers of the 39th Army
Group conduct a drill during the Iron Flow 134 exercise in December
2013. (Photo/Xinhua)
Nearly 100,000 Chinese soldiers and thousands of vehicles from the
16th and 39th Army Groups of the Shenyang Military Region have been
mobilized for a winter exercise near the North Korean border to prepare
for a potential crisis over the Korean peninsula, reports the
Seoul-based Chosun Ilbo.
The exercise launched on Jan. 10 is being held in the border region
between the Changbai mountain and Heilongjiang river, the paper said.
The drill is a normal military exercise to train soldiers to fight in
winter and long-range conditions, according to national state
broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). However, a source from the
People's Liberation Army said that it is very rare to see 100,000
military personnel mobilized for a regular exercise. The 39th Army Group
has only just completed its "Iron Flow 134" exercise in the region late
last year, the source added.
Chinese authorities have declared that no civilian vessels are
allowed to enter the waters of the Bohai Strait and northern part of the
Yellow Sea between Jan. 10-17 due to the military operation. Observers
claim that the PLA chose to launch the military exercises after the
execution of Jang Sung-taek, former vice chairman of North Korean
National Defense Commission, by order of North Korea's supreme leader
Kim Jong-un. The latest political struggle and execution in the
reclusive nation has concerned many in China as Jang was in charge of
economic affairs and cooperation with China.
The CCTV report said that the current exercise is being held only 220
kilometers away from North Korea's Sinuiju Special Administrative
Region. Observers said that it is a move to show strength and maintain
regional security and stability on the Korean peninsula.
An “urgent” report issued today to the General Staff from the highly secretive Deputy Defense Minister General Pavel Popov is warning that war can be expected to erupt between the Pacific Powers of the United States, Peoples Republic of China and the State of Japan “within weeks” due to a power struggle currently “exploding” within the Communist Party of China (CPC).
According to this report, the recent decision by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to prosecute retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang’s son Zhou Bin for corruption is the “leading impetus” that has lead to a fracturing of loyalties in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
between those advocating immediate strikes against Japan and those
cautioning a more strategic and diplomatic course of action in a number
of territorial disputes between these two nations.
Zhou Yongkang, this report says, is a retired senior leader of the CPC and “no small fish”from the province of Sichuan where he was once the top official and headed the “petroleum mafia,” the once-impregnable fortresses of the big state-owned oil giants, which have deep military connections; and ruled the state security establishment under former Chinese leader Hu Jintao.
Since assuming power in November 2012, this report continues, President Xi Jinping began a largely secret war
against Zhou Yongkang, but which broke into the open last year with the
prosecution of Yongkang’s protégé and Central Politburo Member Bo Xilai who was sentenced to life imprisonment last September (2013) for corruption.
Because of President Xi Jinping’s fears of Zhou Yongkang, Russian military analysts in this report state, this past week he promoted as the new commander of the strategically important Beijing Garrison General Pan Liangshi, a veteran military commander with expertise in anti-terror maneuvers, and yet another move to consolidate his grip of the armed forces.
General
Pavel Popov
General Popov, however, in his report warns the General Staff that
President Xi Jinping’s moves against Zhou Yongkang, and for his
consolidation of control over the PLA, are “too little and too late” as Chinese military forces still loyal to the former Security Minister are even now planning “deliberate and provocative” actions against Japan and threatening military force against the Philippines in order to start a Pacific War they believe will unseat the President Xi Jinping.
One such provocative action against the United States by PLA forces
loyal to Zhou Yongkang cited by General Popov in this report lists a 5 December 2013 confrontation in the South China Sea between
Chinese and US naval warships that nearly led to conflict and which
President Xi Jinping was unaware of until protests against China were
lodged by the US State Department.
Even worse, this report says, was the warning issued to Japan earlier today by PLA factions loyal to Zhou Yongkang that a “firm response” could be expected if Japan attacks Chinese ships, should Tokyo decide to take provocative action on the Senkaku Islands issue.
As Japanese military
drills and deployments into the South China Sea area increase, General
Popov further notes in his report, the stern words issued by Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (who
was overseeing the drills, and who vowed to protect the territory
around the islands, which Japan considers to be its own) yesterday
should not go unheeded, and who said:
And, according to this report, it would be a coalition war,
and it could be big, bad, and long. The US-Japan alliance might appear
solid in the early going, obscuring subterranean fractures within the
alliance. Yet transpacific unity might dissipate should the struggle
wear on and American resolve flag — exposing these fissures, all matters
worth clarifying, General Popov warns, in allied circles now, “before things turn ugly.”
With China saying to America that they’re so serious about this conflict that they’re prepared to take the risks of being provocative in
order to persuade the Obama regime to take seriously that they want to
change the current order, but with no one truly knowing who speaks for
the PLA, this report warns that even though the United States military
remains the world’s most fearsome fighting force, unbeatable on a
one-on-one basis, it could very well find itself in a protracted war that could end in nuclear Armageddon.
China is keenly aware of that fact too, this report concludes, so rather than orienting itself towards a total war it cannot win, China’s military
strategy serves a smaller, but shrewder purpose — pushing the United
States out of China’s backyard, a move that matches both President Xi
Jinping’s and Zhou Yongkang’s goals too, no matter who wins out in this
power struggle.
A report appearing in the pro-regime China Times brags
that China’s launch of the Long March-3B rocket earlier this week is
part of a long term plan to turn the moon into a Star Wars-style “death
star” from which the PLA could launch missiles against any target on
Earth.
It all sounds like something straight out of The Onion,
but upon checking the sources it appears that this is indeed what
Communist Party officials have been discussing this week following China’s flagship launch of a lunar rover, which is Beijing’s first spacecraft to land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body.
The article appears on the Want China Times website,
the English-language outlet of the The China Times Group, which is
based in Taiwan and considered to be pro-unification and pro-Beijing.
The article cites the Beijing Times, which is affiliated with the
People’s Daily, as the source for the original report.
Under the headline PLA dreams of turning moon into Death Star, says expert,
the report cites “experts in China” who are wargaming how the moon,
“Can be transformed into a deadly weapon. Like the Death Star in Star
Wars, the moon could hypothetically be used as a military battle station
and ballistic missiles could be launched against any military target on
Earth.”
“Various weapons testing sites could also be established
on the moon,” the article adds, noting that the launch of the Long
March-3B rocket is the start of “a more ambitious program.” This report again reminds us that some of Beijing’s most
jingoistic and aggressive rhetoric is often hidden in plain view, with
Chinese military planners perfectly willing to go on the record and brag
about their agenda to turn China into a forceful military superpower.
Last month, Chinese state-run media released a map showing the locations of major U.S. cities and how they would be impacted by a nuclear attack launched from the PLA’s strategic submarine force. Top Chinese generals have also occasionally threatened America with nuclear strikes if the U.S. becomes embroiled in any future conflict involving Taiwan.
Tensions between the United States and China are currently running high after
Beijing imposed an “air defense zone” over the disputed Senkaku Islands
and hinted that it may shoot down any foreign aircraft entering the
area. The U.S., Japan and South Korea quickly rendered this threat
toothless by performing several overflights of the area without
notifying Chinese authorities.
According to the Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,
the escalating crisis represents a “watershed moment for the world,”
could signal the start of a new cold war, and means “Asia is on the cusp
of a full-blown arms race.”
China has acted with increasing military aggression in recent months, first by sending warships to the coast of Syria to in September to “observe” the actions of U.S. and Russian vessels in the region and then by sailing a surveillance ship through Hawaiian waters for
the very first time in an unprecedented move which was described as a
provocative retaliation to America’s naval presence in the East China
Sea.
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today
that the Vityaz early-warning radar system deployed along
the entire Russian border has confirmed the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) launching from their
Type 092 Xia-class nuclear ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN)
of two atomic JL-2 missiles off the Northeast American coastline near the State
of Oregon on Wednesday 30
October and Wednesday 20
November.
According to this report, these two latest sub-launched nuclear ballistic
tests by China off the west coast of the United States were preceded by a
similar test conducted on Monday 10
November 2010 when a Chinese Navy Jin class ballistic missile nuclear
submarine, deployed secretly from its underground home base on the south coast
of Hainan island, launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from
international waters off the southern California coast in full view of Los
Angeles.
Important to note, Russian intelligence analysts in this report say, was
that China “cryptically
warned” the US about its planned 30 October launch test when on Sunday
27 October the world was given a rare glimpse into China's nuclear-powered
submarine fleet, with State-owned media carrying extensive coverage of the
previously mysterious strategic deterrence force.
Chinese Nuclear Submarine that fired the nuclear ballistic Missiles off American Coastline near Oregon
The unprecedented revealing of the underwater fleet was a demonstration of China's
confidence in its sea-based nuclear strike capability and serves as a deterrent
to any attempted provocation amid the changing geopolitical situation, said
military observers.
Starting on Sunday 27 October, China Central Television carried serial
coverage two days in a row on the submarine force of the People's Liberation
Army (PLA) Navy's Beihai fleet in its flagship news program Xinwen Lianbo.
The People's Daily, the PLA Daily and the China Youth Daily on Monday all
carried front-page stories, features and commentaries on the submarine force,
applauding its achievements since the launch of China's first nuclear-powered
submarine in December 1970.
To the most chilling warning to the Obama regime from China regarding
these missile tests the Washington Times News Service further reports:
Though the American people themselves have been kept in near total ignorance
of the coming war between them and China, the same cannot be said of the rest
of the world, including Doug Saunders of The Globe and Mail, Canada's leading
newspaper, who reported in its 15
July edition that the United States and China have been preparing for an
all-out war and which we, in part, quote from The Nation News Service:
To how soon open warfare between China
and the US
will break out this report doesn’t say.
However, it does note that China’s “bombshell
move” against the US Dollar this week makes its likelihood much sooner
than later. In further reporting on China’s
move against the US Dollar the dissident American website InfoWars.com
states:
Russian Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev has warned the West against launching ‘hasty wars’,
which may increase regional tensions and even trigger a nuclear war. "Sometimes these [military] actions -- which undermine state
sovereignty -- could result in a fully-fledged regional war, and even --
although I do not want to scare anyone -- the use of a nuclear weapon",
Medvedev was quoted by AFP as saying on Thursday during a legal forum
in Saint Petersburg. USZ Attorney General Eric Holder and some other top international
dignitaries and legal scholars also made speeches during the event.
Russia has been at odds with the Western powers over the best way to
manage the ongoing violence in Syria, which has led to many deaths over
the past year. Moscow, along with Beijing, has so far vetoed two anti-Syria
resolutions, saying a solution to the Syrian crisis must be sought
through political dialogue. Russia was also opposed to the NATO-led war in Libya last year,
which has left many civilians dead following the ouster of the country’s
former dictator, Muammar Gaddafi.
The former Russian president replaced the country's newly-elected President Vladimir Putin as Russia's prime minister on May 7.
While calling for an investigation against a course about
Islam taught at one of United States of Zionism’s top military schools, USZ
military’s top officer, General Martin Dempsey has called it “totally
objectionable”, BBC reported Friday.The news was broken by Wired,
which had said that the USZ military was teaching its “future leaders”
that a “total war” was needed to counter the 1.4 billion Muslims around
the world in order to protect USZ from Islamic "terrorists". The course further taught that the whole religion should be considered an enemy considering its divine rules of justice and freedom the main threat to Zionist ruthless monarchies currently feeding off the blood of Western Nations through the straws of Democratic Facade setups.
While campaigning for a “total war” against all the world’s Muslims,
the course further taught about possible nuclear attacks on the holy
cities of Makkah and Medina. The Pentagon confirmed the course material found on the website and
is expecting that the investigation circus report will be compiled by the end
of this month. The investigation aims to find out why such a course was a part of
the curriculum at the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Staff College. The issue surfaced when one of the officers who had attended the course had complained. The USZ military officer, who delivered the lectures, Army Lieutenant
Colonel Matthew A Dooley, was suspended from teaching at the college,
however, he wasn’t fired. The officers who attended Dooley’s lectures, listening to the
inciting course, have now moved into higher-level assignments throughout
the USZ military.
According to incoming reports from Faisalabad, a major city of Punjab province, a USZ security official’s attempt to enter a ‘sensitive’ area of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) in Faisalabad was foiled by security agencies, who forced him to return after a heated scene at the institution’s gate. Reports claim that on Wednesday, Mr. Jaison Berger, Security Officer of the USZ Consulate Lahore, visited Faisalabad to check and inspect security arrangements for a USZ delegation’s scheduled visit to the city on September 13. While visiting different areas of the city, Berger reached the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), a centre of nuclear research working under the direct command of the PAEC.
Police staff and officials on duty stopped the USZ national at the gate after receiving orders from their superiors at a provincial and national level.The officials requested him to steer clear of the area which was not included in the USZ delegation’s scheduled plan but Berger refused to acquiesce. After a heated debate between the USZ official and security agencies including NIBGE commandos, Berger was forced to leave the site.Following the incident, the official abruptly cut short his visit and headed for Lahore. Following the tense encounter, sensitive agency personnel and Faisalabad police took up the matter seriously and sent SOS reports to officials concerned about Berger’s attempt to force entry.
While Indian scientists and engineers who monitored and embellished the results of Indian Nuclear Tests a decade ago, are holding their fingers between their teeth, the Delhi press has been shocked to learn about the successful nuclear program of Pakistan.
“Based on the seismic measurements and also the opinion from experts there was a much lower yield in the thermonuclear device test” conducted at Pokhran in May 1998. In nuclear parlance, a test is described as a fizzle when it fails to meet the desired yield. Affirming that India would need more tests, Santhanam cautioned against India being pressurized into signing the CTBT.
Asia Times. August 26, India battles with nuclear fallout By Ninan Koshy
Shaheen II taking off from the launchpad
Almost a year ago, when MOSSAD and RAW agents were rampaging the lovely Swat Valley, the irredentist Indian media and the revanchist public fed on a steady diet of Pakistan-phobia had begun to imagine hegemony galore for India. A series of reverses in the defense field–namely the fact that the Indian Nuclear test were duds, the Indian Nuclear Submarine sailed without a nuclear power reactor or any other power source, the DRDO flagellating the Department of Defence for overpaying by 60% for an obsolete Air Carft Carrier and the general malaise in the missile production program–have trimmed down the swollen head of those who reside on the Ganges Valley.
Nuclear Fireball created as a nuclear warhead carrying Shaheen II precisely hits its target
"It is this claim of perfection that is under serious challenge and generally believed to be dubious, if not hollow. Prominent scientists such as A Gopalkrishnan, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board and P K Iyengar are in agreement with the criticism of Santhanam and point out that the single thermonuclear device India tested in 1998 did not function at all as per design and did not produce anything near the expected design yield."
Asia Times. August 26, India battles with nuclear fallout By Ninan Koshy
This Times of India (TOI) report is an eye opener for all the "Greater India" utopia residents. The TOI personally called Hans Kristensen and asked him poignant questions about Pakistan’s Nuclear program and its missiles.
Ghouri taking off
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s rapidly ramped up nuclear arsenal is now 70-90% strong with increasingly sophisticated bomb designs and smart delivery systems aimed primarily at India, two US researchers have said, even as Islamabad is running from pillar to post seeking foreign aid to stem an economic collapse.
In a paper written for the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists, Robert Norris of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists say Pakistan is “busily enhancing its capabilities across the board, with new nuclear-capable ballistic missiles being readied for deployment, and two nuclear capable cruise missiles under development."
Two new plutonium production reactors and a second chemical separation facility also are under construction.
The paper essentially upgrades Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal both quantitatively (from 60 weapons last year to 70-90 now) and qualitatively — from uranium-base to being plutonium-centric.
“The fact that they are preparing nuclear-capable cruise missiles suggests their scientists have been able to miniaturize nuclear warheads by using plutonium,” Kristensen told ToI. “They are shifting their nuclear base from uranium to plutonium…in a sense, they are turning a chapter.”
Plutonium-based warheads are lighter and easier to handle, a better fit for nimble cruise missiles. India’s nuclear arsenal is largely plutonium-based.
Kristensen said Pakistan’s weapons and deliver-systems can be assumed to be India-specific because Islamabad “has not declared any other adversary.” The United States has been expressing concern to Pakistan about its accelerated program and urging it hold back, but there does not appear to be any concerted effort from Washington to influence Pakistan’s decisions, he added.
… But that does not seem to have impacted the multi-billion dollar ramping up of its nuclear arsenal in the absence of any US effort to leverage the economic handle it has on Islamabad.
Times of India. Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN 2 September 2009, 12:01am IST
Ghouri Missile immediately after lift off
Pakistan has not only made huge strides in the political arena, working with the U.S and China, it has now befriended Russia which opens up huge new areas of cooperation between the former foes. In the defense arena, India has been wasting billions of Dollars without getting its money’s worth. The new 123 deal places huge restrictions on its testing capabilities. The Indian Nuclear program is untested. Therefore the bombs placed on its failed missiles are mere duds. This makes India highly vulnerable in the areas that Bharat Verma has identified in the Indian Defense Review. For Pakistan, a strident China and a confident Pakistan will therefore be harder to deal with. Bangladesh, Nepal and SriLanka smelling blood will exact their revenge on the Bharati bully and fight against its hegemony.
Islamabad, on its part, uses its role as a so-called ally in the war against extremists to keep expanding its nuclear program by implicitly threatening to cease helping the US – a nightmare scenario for Washington since most of the supplies to its forces in Afghanistan goes through Pakistan.
“Both countries have a trump card to play. We have not heard any any descriptions about how they play it out,” Kristensen said.
In their paper, Kristensen and Norris say Pakistan is improving its weapon designs, moving beyond its first-generation nuclear weapons that relied on Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU). After pursuing plutonium-based designs for more than a decade, Islamabad appears to have mastered the technology.
Central to that effort, the paper says, is the 40–50-megawatt heavy water Khushab plutonium production reactor, which was completed in 1998 and is located at Joharabad in the Khushab district of Punjab. Six surface-to-air missile batteries surround the site to protect against air strikes. Norris and Kristensen say as a sign of its confidence in its plutonium designs, Pakistan is building two additional heavy water reactors at the Khushab site, which will more than triple the country’s plutonium production.
Explaining the changing nature of the Pak arsenal, they say all of these efforts suggest that Pakistan is preparing to increase and enhance its nuclear forces. In particular, the new facilities provide the Pakistani military with several options: fabricating weapons that use plutonium cores; mixing plutonium with HEU to make composite cores; and/or using tritium to “boost” warheads’ yield.
Without referencing the recent controversy in India about the success or otherwise of its thermo-nuclear test in 1998 (now dubbed the sizzle vs fizzle debate), the paper says “absent a successful full-scale thermonuclear test (by Pakistan), it is premature to suggest that Pakistan is producing two-stage thermonuclear weapons” – in other words, it has yet to acquire a Hydrogen Bomb.
But, they say, the types of facilities under construction suggest that Pakistan has decided to supplement and perhaps replace its heavy uranium-based weapons with smaller, lighter plutonium-based designs that could be delivered further by ballistic missiles than its current warheads and that could be used in cruise missiles. Pakistan rapidly ramping up India-specific nuclear arsenal.
Times of India. Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN 2 September 2009, 12:01am IST
The bottom line is that the Pakistani program is larger, more potent and more lethal than India could have ever imagined. The Pakistan Nuclear program has moved light years beyond the Heavy Enriched Uranium and has now firmly gone beyond Plutonium and Tritium usage. Though Hans Kristensen didn’t quiet say it–but he did inform the TOI and other news sources that the Pakistani Nuclear program is beyond the Hydrogen Bomb stage–this makes it a very advanced program.
Shaheen II gaining altitude
NEW DELHI, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) — Indian Army Chief Gen. Deepak Kapoor said on Wednesday that Pakistan was going well beyond deterrence after reports Islamabad had increased its nuclear arsenal and was working to add cruise missiles.
“There were certain degrees of deterrence and the figure of 70 to 90 nuclear warheads directed against a country certainly goes beyond the concept of deterrence,” Kapoor said in the western Indian city of Pune.
“It is a matter of concern for us,” he added.
Gen. Kapoor was commenting on an article published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist about the enhanced nuclear arsenal of neighboring Pakistan.
“A new nuclear-capable ballistic missile is being readied for deployment, and two nuclear-capable cruise missiles are under development. Two new plutonium production reactors and a second chemical separation facility also are under construction,” said the U.S. journal.
Pakistan has previously denied it is adding to its nuclear warheads. Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said in May his country did not need to expand its nuclear arsenal but would maintain a minimum nuclear deterrence that was essential for its defense and stability. Editor: Mu Xuequan
The Pakistani program was originally based on a Uranium program which has smaller yields. Now the miniaturized nuclear program has been successfully placed on top of very lethal Shaheen II missiles which can reach every nook and corner of Asia and half of Europe. Actually the Pakistani Inter Continental Ballistic Missile Technology (ICBM) allows it to reach all corners of the globe.
Here are some of the white lies written by the notorious Akhand Bhaarat pundit BHARAT VERMA against Pakistan and the Nexalites who are worshiped by the oppressed poor majority of South Eastern India due to their policy of serving the poor by looting the pro-hindu baniya elite rulers.
The Danger by Bharat Verma
Very few policy makers in India dare to acknowledge the danger to the nation’s territorial integrity. The security and integrity of the nation has become hostage to vote-bank politics. Democracy and more than eight per cent economic growth will be of no avail if the country as such withers away.
India cracks map of insurgency: Naxalites, Maoists, Seven Sisters, Kashmir, Punjab, Tamil
India is not only being frayed at its borders by insurgencies, but its very writ in the heartland is becoming increasingly questionable. The rise of a nation is predicated upon unity, peace and stability, which are essentially determined by good governance. The prevailing security scenario poses the serious question: Is India’s development and economic growth becoming unsustainable due to poor handling of the security? There are three dangers to the territorial integrity that bedevil the nation.
The Indian government has identified three major areas that are a threat to the national integrity of this so called nation
The security forces, primarily the Indian Army, have held the state of Jammu & Kashmir physically since Independence. The politicians and the bureaucrats have contributed nothing to resolve the situation. The danger has since magnified. After all the wars, export of terrorism, inconsistent and weak policies by New Delhi, Islamabad could not win Kashmir only because the Indian Army held its ground. If the ghost force succeeds in making locals (Kashmiris) rise against the Army, it will be an unprecedented achievement for Islamabad. It is a matter of grave concern that New Delhi is so prone to issue statements without thinking it through, as long as it appeases the adversary even temporarily. With China’s claim over Arunachal Pradesh becoming more strident, as evidenced by its recent stance on Tawang, the danger to the Siliguri Corridor stands enhanced. This corridor has been facing internal turmoil for many years.
The green area is the Pakistan province of "Gilgit Baltistan" (formerly known as Norhtern Areas) - Kashmir Map
Danger-1: New Delhi and the state capitals have almost ceded the governmental control over 40 % of the Union’s territory to the Naxalites. The Naxal’s are aided and abetted by the crime mafia that runs its operations in the same corridor from Nepal to Andhra Pradesh, as well as Maoists of Nepal who in turn receive covert support from other powers engaged/interested in destabilising India. The nexus between ULFA and Maoists in Nepal is well established. In a recent attack in Chhattisgarh, Maoists of India and Nepal were co-participants. There are also reports to suggest that Indian Maoists are increasingly taking to opium cultivation in areas under their control to finance their activities. The Maoists – crime – drug nexus is rather explosive.
Naxalite insurgency spreading like a wildfire in India - Hindustan's Maoist insurgency map. There are secessionist movements in almost every state in "India" encompassing more than 200 districts!
Danger-2: The security forces, primarily the Indian Army, have held the state of Jammu & Kashmir physically since Independence. The politicians and the bureaucrats have contributed nothing to resolve the situation. The danger has since magnified many times as displayed by the presence of thousands of supporters of LeT flying their flags in a recent rally of dissidents. Under the garb of peace overtures, heavily armed infiltrators with tacit support from the Pak Military-Intelligence establishment continue to make inroads into Kashmir. They are at present lying low, waiting for an opportune moment for vicious strikes on several fronts to undermine the Indian Union. This ghost force reared its head in a recent rally organised by Geelani. Musharraf and his sympathisers in India were working in a highly synchronised fashion for demilitarisation of the Valley. Simultaneously, there was an insidious campaign to malign the Indian Army on one pretext or the other as part of the psywar being waged by the ghost force under Islamabad’s directions. After all the wars, export of terrorism, inconsistent and weak policies by New Delhi, Islamabad could not win Kashmir only because the Indian Army held its ground. If the ghost force succeeds in making locals rise against the Army, it will be an unprecedented achievement for Islamabad.
The rivers flowing from Kashmir
The talk of demilitarisation is therefore merely a ploy that aims to achieve the Kashmir objective even as Pak Military-Intelligence establishment expands its tentacles not only within the Valley but in other parts of India as well. While the Pak dispensation talks of peace, terrorist cells are proliferating in the country including new frontiers in southern part of India. Islamic fundamentalism / terrorism footprints, as evidenced by Bangalore centered incidents, are too glaring to be ignored. Islamic terrorism in the garb of freedom fighting in Kashmir is therefore de-stabilising the entire country. Islamabad is using Kashmir as a gateway / launching pad to rest of India.
Siliguri corridor is vulnerable to an expanding China map in Bangladesh
Danger-3: Given a modicum of political will, Danger-I and II may still be manageable, however, Danger III to its territorial integrity in the northeast may prove to be the most difficult. In fact the entire northeast can easily be unhooked on multiple counts from the Union. First, these are low populated areas having contiguity with the most densely populated and demographically aggressive country in the world, i.e., Bangladesh. The country has also emerged as a major source of Islamic fundamentalism, which impacts grievously on the northeast. To add to these woes, New Delhi because of sheer vote-bank politics legitimised illegal migration for 22 years through the vehicle of IMDT. Many border districts now have a majority population constituting illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
Naxalites insurgency and Seven Sister states of the Northeast
In near future, this leverage will be used to create an internal upheaval against the Centre as in the case of the Valley. It’s a classic Islamic fundamentalist principle of asymmetric warfare. What cannot be achieved by conventional wars, can be done through infiltration and subsequently internal subversion. They call it “jihad!” Second, the northeast if not addressed appropriately could unhook from the Union before the Valley given the acute vulnerability of the Siliguri Corridor, which is merely 10 to 20 kilometer wide and 200 kilometers long. If this critical corridor is choked or subverted or severed by force, the Union of India will have to maintain the northeast by air. With poor quality of governance for which the country is infamous, the local population may gravitate towards other regional powers.
Third, with China’s claim over Arunachal Pradesh becoming more strident, as evidenced by its recent stance on Tawang, the danger to the Siliguri Corridor stands enhanced. This corridor has been facing internal turmoil for many years. The area may well be further subverted by inimical regional powers. Chinese intention to bargain for Tawang to secure Tibet is deceptive. Subsequently, it would covet entire Arunachal Pradesh to protect Tawang.
India China border dispute. Bharat occupies the territory of South Tibet which it calls Arunchal Pradesh. In an era of increased tension, Chinese forces have built a robut network of roads and rails to the border and Bharat has placed SU planes Tezpur to 3200 km or 8500 km with fuel tanks
Chinese are known for expanding their areas of strategic interests with time unlike the Indians who are in a tearing hurry to convert Siachen Glacier into a “mountain of peace” or LOC into “line of peace” or equating Pakistan as an equal victim of terrorism. It is a matter of grave concern that New Delhi is so prone to issue statements without thinking it through, as long as it appeases the adversary even temporarily. Therefore the northeast — with the internal turmoil in the Siliguri Corridor, with low population surrounded by overpopulated Bangladesh exporting Islamic terrorism under tutelage of Islamabad, with China gaining influence in Nepal and Bangladesh and its upping the ante on Tawang — the danger to the region is grave. Manipur is a stark indicator.
The insurgents have nearly weaned the state from the Indian Union. The writ of the Indian Union has ceased to operate; insurgents (freedom fighters), compelling people to turn to South Korean music and films, ban Hindi music and films.
Hindu Liberation Army wants to rule the entire planet. Mr. Bharat Verma is a strong proponent of the destruction of Pakistan and conquest of Afghanistan
New Delhi continues to fiddle while the Northeast burns which in turn poses a grave problem to the territorial integrity of the Union of India. The world once again is getting polarised into two camps after the end of the Cold war — democracies and authoritarian regimes of all hues, which includes Islamists, communists, and the Maoists. Their perspectives are totally totalitarian. Therefore with China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Nepal (Maoists), being neighbours, the danger to the Indian territorial integrity stands enhanced.Bangladesh: The Danger III for India! 01 Sep, 2010 Bharat Verma. (The author is editor, Indian Defence Review)
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The U.S.A had taken up concerns by Pakistan on the perceived ‘Cold Start’ strategy of the Indian Army that envisages rapid deployment of troops on the western border to escalate to a full blown war within days but has been told that such a doctrine does not exist but is a term that has been fabricated by think tanks.
The matter was repeatedly taken up by senior US Defence delegations after Pakistan voiced concerns that diverting more troops to the Afghan border would not be feasible given the Indian ‘Cold Start’ strategy that could bring offensive elements of the Indian Army to its eastern border within four days.
V.K Singh
While the US has been assured that no such doctrine exists, the Army has now come on record to say that ‘Cold Start’ is not part of its doctrine. Army Chief General V K Singh has told this newspaper that India’s basic military posture remains defensive. “There is nothing called ‘Cold Start’. As part of our overall strategy we have a number of contingencies and options, depending on what the aggressor does. In the recent years, we have been improving our systems with respect to mobilisation, but our basic military posture is defensive”, the Army Chief told The Indian Express.
The ‘Cold Start’ doctrine has been doing the rounds since the conclusion of Op Parakram in 2002 when the Indian Army was asked to mobilise on the Pakistani border after the attack on Parliament. It took the Army almost two months to fully deploy troops. Defence strategists have been talking about the new doctrine of the Indian Army that would enable it to deploy a full strength invasion force within a few days notice, unlike several weeks of preparation that were required earlier.
However, General Singh has said while active defence is part of the defensive strategy, India does not have any territorial ambitions. “ India dumps, denies or hides ‘Cold Start’ Strategy”, he said.
Side effects of a real "cold" start
While the Pakistani media has been getting shriller about the perceived doctrine, even suggesting several counter doctrines, the Army Chief has now clarified that the term is not a part of the Indian doctrine. “I think that ‘Cold Start’ is just a term bandied about by think tanks and media. It is neither a doctrine nor a military term in our glossary,” he said.
In November 2009, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in Washington that ‘Pakistan faces no threat whatsoever from our country and that is the stated position of the Government of India’. He made the statement after a comment by former Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor about the possibility of a ‘limited war under a nuclear overhang’. The government was upset about the comment as Islamabad and Washington raised the issue with the former pointing fingers at India’s aggressive nature.
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