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2008-12-24 India-Pakistan

'Don't underestimate Pak military might'

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Posted by Fred 2008-12-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
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#1 Pak military might? The Pak military might what? Become the Detroit Lions of Islam? The series stands at 0-3 if I'm not mistaken.

Posted by SteveS 2008-12-24 00:39|| 2008-12-24 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Wanting to be more holy than Ayrabs means sucking up to all that's wholely hubris unleashed.

Posted by Duh! 2008-12-24 04:11|| 2008-12-24 04:11|| Front Page Top

#3 at least the Lions get the first draft pick. The Paks get....more Paks

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-24 07:57|| 2008-12-24 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 But they'll be playing at home and the Ummah gonna rally to dem. Yep. Srsly.

Meh

Take India and the Casualties

Posted by .5MT 2008-12-24 07:59|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-12-24 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 BAH!
Take India... give deh casualties... jeebus...

Posted by .5MT 2008-12-24 08:01|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-12-24 08:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Holy leaping, frothing Chihuahuas. Get them off of US!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-24 08:07|| 2008-12-24 08:07|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL

Posted by Hellfish 2008-12-24 08:40|| 2008-12-24 08:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Without nukes a fight between India and Pakistan would be two third world nations fighting. In that case INdia has more troops so they would win but the whole thing would be amatuerish, ugly, and bloody.

I could be wrong about India, I'm judging them on the Mubai response which was mostly cops. Hopefully their military is better.

If I were India I'd become really close friends with Israel. Learn as much as possible from them when it comes to training and combat and such and in exchange try to get Indian workers into Israel to replace many of the Palestinians currently there.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-12-24 11:08|| 2008-12-24 11:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Large third world armies (like Saddam era Iraq) have great difficulty with multi Corps (or sometimes Divisional) exercises. They are big but unwieldy, typically full of conscripts.

The India and Pakistan armies actually predate their respective nation states and were officered by men with experience fighting the Germans and Japanese. The Indian army has always been an all volunteer force. Its ability to field and coordinate an enormous number of troops is certainly not amateurish

from nightwatch

Comment: When NightWatch first began studying Indian civil and military war preparations in 1971, the Indian Army required 8 months to mobilize men from the civilian sector; recall reserves; move logistics; generate, train and prepare the forces; bring them to full combat readiness and move 750,000 soldiers in 25 to 28 divisions with about 2,000 tanks to attack positions in western India,

In late 1986, during Operation Brass Tacks, India shortened that preparation process, but it was still considerable. By the time of the Kargil War in early 1999, the Army reduced the time to attain full combat readiness in battle positions to 45 days.

By the January 2002 crisis, the Indian Army had reduced the time to one month, with 750,000 men and some 4,000 tanks in battle positions and capable of attacking after three weeks of preparations. Full combat readiness was reached in the fourth week. In June 2002, the Army also showed it can maintain that large force in the field at a high state of readiness for up to six months, summer or winter. No other Army has achieved those results for a force that size.

Posted by john frum 2008-12-24 13:37|| 2008-12-24 13:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Another picture from 1971 showing the heroic Pak army in action...

Posted by john frum 2008-12-24 16:56|| 2008-12-24 16:56|| Front Page Top

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