Hi...
Long time no see!!!!!!!!
Today I am touch upon a topic which still gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.Yes it's the KARGIL war in 1999.
It was an act of misadventure from our enemies who mistook our humility for military weakness.India whose leaders have prided them as calling our motherland a "PEACELOVING NATION" atleast had the foresight to develop our military might recognizing the fact that sometimes to protect peace violence is required.
I'll let go of the rhetoric because I am deviating from the point i want to make.
Its been 10 years since KARGIL happened and i was very glad to see the media giving adequate screen time to the 10th anniversary of the event.But when i look at other perspectives related to the event i see is no change has happened whatsoever in the outlook let it be political or military.
I have adequate points to lambast the civilian leadership of that time as well as the leadership of now how the war was mishandled and is continuing to done so.
I am very proud of what the Indian Army did to capture the areas occupied by the so called Mujahideen. What the brave soldiers did is nothing short of an superhuman effort and i can bet no other army in the world has got the guts to do so.Our Soldiers went up steep slopes facing fire and still managed to reach rthe top and uproot our enemies.
Just imagine you are climbing up at an incline of more than 60 degree angle and bullets are being aimed from the yop at you?????
Sounds prestty uncomfortable huh!!!!!!!!1add to that temperatures close to the freezing point and the fact that your successful climb can save another hundred lives who are right behind you...A bit disconcerting...
But that what the Indian Army jawans did.They had their families and their whole lives still to enjoy,but just imagine they just like that laid down their lives just that we can enjoy our life.
Ahh...I guess I'm getting a bit emotional but hell who cares.My objective of writing this piece isn't rhetoric but to point out some glaring lapses on the part of our military leadership.Its not that I am trying to put down the bravery shown by our armed forces but since my dad was in Air force i have seen and felt the inter-service rivalries,
An Air force guy will try all things to put down a Army man and an Army and vice versa.Same is the case with Navy.I have never understood why the fierce rivalry because at the end of the day all are fighting for our country.And i feel this rivalry led to so many deaths in the first place in the kargil war.We took hell lot of time to assess the extent of incursions and by the time we realised more than half of our 560 odd soldiers who died had already attained matrydoom.
I believe if it would have been any other Army like that from US then the first thing which would have been done was to send reconnaisance flights over the area to assess the extent of incursion as well as to get a brief idea about the enemy strength.Since Indian Armed forces don't have an joint command structure and the the chiefs of all three wings bein arrogant no one cared to help each other until asked to do so.So The Army bosses sent our jawans to their death traps without an inkling of the fact that in the guise of mujahideen army regulars were waiting and that too armed to the teeth.By the time Army realised its folly more than 300 hundred jawan had lost their lives.If it had been the US Army the first thing they would have done is to bomb the peaks and soften up the enemy before the land forces made their charge thereby minimising the human casualty on our side.
But the powers to be chose to implement some strategies which were discarded during World War 2 and our jawans being made scapegoats by ill devised strategists.Mind you these bosses aren't those who have seen wars have been there in the battlefield but it was surprising to see such lack of strategies from their side.
If our politicians have enough common sense i guess they would push for the unification of the forces and not distinguish between the three arms of our security.
