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Care to elaborate?
We are playing with words like proactive defense etc etc. Bloody diplomatic niceties. It is all
bullc@#$ at best. It is full on offensive
Well, I don't think that would be a full on offensive. How do you mobilise a full on offensive from Cold to Hot in just 3 days time frame? Even the mighty US cannot do that
Oh we are talking the same. But the point is .. for example of Lahore, it is barely 32 kms from Amritsar, our main population center. So even 5 - 7 kms will be too much for Pakistan. We are not intending to enter any city or its suburbs, only deny access t the peripheries in such a case.
As I said, Lahore is just used as an example, probably a bad one, it is just an example to show you that "outer city limit" concept worth less in the negotiation table.
Like your figure of 3 kms a day. Where has the figure come from? Is it based on the combat seen in Iraq? Then it is a dangerous figure to rely on as that was a decimated army and irregular force which was fought by US. In a major population center which is densely populated, the probability of even US reaching this target is highly suspect until and unless your plan of attack calls for flattening of the whole city with massive artillery and air power deployment. Anyways, what I saw of US troops of 14 cavalry training with Indian troops in India, nowhere was this figure touted as being sacrosanct.
That's your first problem. Cavalry.
How do you suppose we use cavalry to fight in an urban warfare?
Being a cavalrymen myself, i can tell you this, if you put your cavalry unit alone into urban environment, you will get 0km per day as you would be dead. Cavalry assault City is very dangerous as there are many blind spot in any APC, and what you train with is an whole another doctrine where you use your speed and agility to scout the enemy in a wide open field, but both speed and agility would not be amount to anything in a urban warfare setting. Which translate to a sitting duck.
And you seems to misunderstood the concept of urban warfare, in the OCS we are taught the closer the battlefield the enemy pull, the more your enemy can negate technology, it's a prime fighting example for the Depleted, Decimated and Irregular Force to fight in urban environment, as that was the closest as you can get between 2 parties. And this would be the preferred choice of battle for the mentioned above.
And history show time and again, it will only make things worse if you flatten the city.
I know this personally because while I was trained as a cavalry commander, I was send to Iraq taking a platoon of foot mobile. And I learn the urban fighting concept the hard way.
Impressive. My compliments to her. But how does that qualify as an authority? And do you really think you are talking to a newbie or an ignorant guy here
Then can i ask what is your background and qualification so you can say that? If you say that, that mean you are in a better position to judge what we said, done and wrote in this topic.
So you have to be better than a Major who have a master in War Science and a PhD in Far East relation and with almost 9 years service with the Swedish military as a junior war planner who serve in 4 different war/campaign across the 9 years career.
And have a better qualification to a Captain who have 7 years military experience cavalrymen whose CV include Infantry Platoon leader, Battalion Intelligence Officer and served 2 wars in total of 23 months in the middle East, who have a Bachelor degree of international of relation and a Master in International Business.
I don't know if you are a newbie or ignorant, but you are not talking to a newbie or soldier wannabe either..
Let me assure your, you are not talking to a wannabe soldier/defence expert/novice. I know my stuff. Been there, done that. The biggest flaw in your argument is you are drawing parallel to US army, which has limited your appreciation of the topic so far, and also that you are failing to get that the troops which shall be used for the strike are in normal peace time deployed in areas in proximity to the international boundaries. Their weapons/stocks of rations, FOL, ammunition, equipment etc are already there ... nothing needs to be inducted afresh for waging a war. Additional troops in terms of the strike corps have different areas to operate and different tasking. We are in a position to achieve the objectives with the present dispensation of troops itself without any large or small scale movement of troops or materials over distances. Cold Start means, starting from the position of this moment .....
umm, did you quote the wrong person, I was talking about doctrine and training here, not about inducting new troop.
My point was, if you train with a certain doctrine that have a clear sense of what you are going to do in casse of something happen, that would be what you are going to do and that is a bad thing for both staff member and field commander alike as you are losing the touch of reality and you are dead set against some tactic that solely in support to the doctrine you are train with.
What the Indian doctrine is based on their initial strike to be successful, but what if they aren't? What are you going to do after things goes wrong? This kind of tactical thinking is inhabited if you have a clear define doctrine.
And the doctrine thinking i quote is not on the US either, it's actually how Israel won the 6 days war. Where the Arab have a clear soviet doctrine in place for a strike, and a doctrine that follow to the last letter and resulting the lost of armoured and air component of the Arab Army, that's because Israel sees to the doctrine and exploit the gapping in word/training and the tactical thinking of the Arab general, which in a sense, they were caught with their pants down.
It does not have supply, stock of ammunition or anything in my point....
And by the way, if you are to jump a cold start, i would not put my troop near the international border, too transparent and too predictable. One element of holding attack is to have your enemy guess which way you are coming from. Too predictable work against this idea.
It is dissuasive, hence known. Our objectives are multiple and fluid in nature. Just like the battle space that we shall be facing the moment offensive tasking is undertaken. . Your view that the same is flawed, is your view.. Regards
Umm, is that really THAT fluid? I beg to differ.
What you are expecting is a smooth battleplan, where your enemy will not know or will not engage you in the beginning phase, but well, that's just what you think. In reality, there are numerous way this doctrine, if follow can go wrong. But then I should also say, when MacArthur wrote the battleplan on landing in Inchon, everything that can gone wrong is there in the battleplan, but the battle of Inchon go accordingly in the end, so I guess there can always be ex caption.