Category: REBALANCING AND SURGICAL STRIKES
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Retooling for war in super-high altitudes : ARTICLE IN IINDIA TODAY
I am honoured that this article was originally published by India Today as part of a special DEFENDING INDIA edition @ https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/defence/story/20210621-retooling-for-war-in-super-high-altitudes-lt-gen-p-ravi-shankar-retd-1813375-2021-06- Retooling for war in super-high altitudes by Lt Gen. P. Ravi Shankar (Retd) The Indian Army has been on top of the threat from the plains. But it needs new technologies for operations at super-high…
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INTERVIEW WITH INDIA TODAY
I had an interesting discussion with Sandeep Unnithan of India Today on the reports in SCMP on deployment of MLRS by China in Tibet. The discussion in below. The link below is the video recording. It gives you a better perspective. I would suggest you read this interview in conjunction with my earlier articles 1. Force Multiplication of Rebalancing 2. Non Contact Conventional…
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Match Chinese MRLs with Pinaka: Lt Gen. P. Ravi Shankar
Match Chinese MRLs with Pinaka: Lt Gen. P. Ravi Shankar | India Today Insight Lt Gen. P. Ravi Shankar, former director-general, artillery, on the need for India to fill the gaps in its rocket artillery and train at high altitudes ADVERTISEMENT Sandeep Unnithan Delhi April 22, 2021 UPDATED: April 22, 2021 23:22 IST An advanced version of…
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Battlefield Energy, Oil of Space and Rebalancing by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Rebalancing Imperatives Energy Guzzlers. Indian Armed Forces are rebalancing to the North. Infrastructure development will continue. Good news. Across the LAC, China is ‘Solidifying Tibet’. Hereafter, the areas adjoining the LAC will see elevated troop levels even if there are no hostilities. The number of troops to be maintained permanently in extreme High altitudes will nearly…
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Force Multiplication of Rebalancing by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
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The Need For Military Rebalance
Image Courtesy: Scroll.in https://bharatshakti.in/the-need-for-military-rebalance/ December 18, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd) Print Email Editor’s Note Our three Strike Corps are poised to sweep west into Pakistan while we have only one Strike Corps – in the making – to be fielded against the Chinese. With the increasing pitch of Chinese belligerence there is a requirement…
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The Future of Surgical Strikes
Image Courtesy: IBTimes https://bharatshakti.in/the-future-of-surgical-strikes/ May 06, 2017; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd); 1 Print Email EDITOR’S NOTE The bodies of a few of our soldiers were mutilated very recently by Pakistani Army personnel who had undertaken a cross-border operation. The hue and cry across the country that follows such ghastly incidents, increases the pressure on the…
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REBUTTAL TO A REBUTTAL OF MY REBUTTAL OF THE ‘SPICE MISS’ THEORY AT BALAKOT
Today my day was made. After three weeks I got a response on my blog (https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-rebuttal-to-spice-miss-theories-at.html) on my views which I had expressed wherein I had proved beyond doubt that A. The Australian expert was flawed and probably biased. B. There was no way the Spice bombs would have missed at Balakot. The response I…
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STRATEGIC RESTRAINT VS SURGICAL STRIKES – A PAKISTANI VIEWPOINT BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
‘If only we conducted airstrike after 26/11 attack’: Nirmala Sitharaman[1] Debate is raging in the political, military, diplomatic and journalistic circles regarding the Surgical Strike strategy of the current government vs the Strategic Restraint exhibited by previous governments. These strategies are either extolled or denigrated, often acrimoniously, depending upon which side of the divide one…
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