Rant : (if the almighties are reading this ....... please do something ..)
Looking cool matters , photo ops matter , quality propaganda through media matter , even though a lot of vets say that "they" are doing it to look cool its needed a lot more than the "feeling proud indian army" or "how is the josh " .
Recently i saw a post ridiculing Indian military with the idiotic parade videos of bike stunts and it got more than a dozen thousand likes along with the standard racist comments .
. This makes me wonder about the optics that our military had not only in the eyes of the nation but most importantly on the world .
Most don't know anything about our SF we never advertise , we never work on looks or aesthetics all we do is "how's the josh" . We think keeping the org in dark will build an aura of mystery around them , it doesn't it makes it worse when someone googles about them and what comes up is horrid images with substandard equipment .
We are not doing jaw breaking operations like the SAS on foreign soil that will build their name least we can do is make them look cool . Most think they are just some other so called "SPECIAL FORCES" like the other 3rd world countries who can't do shit .
No one knows them coz they never advertise , no one knows what ops they have done coz we never speak/write about them or publish combat footages , no one knows what equipment they have( except the shit we see) thus no one respects them .
If just posting equipment breakdown (which is most of the times the most basic shit) from images available in open is a breach in opsec then idk what posting reels from bases are.
Some will say army's job is to serve and protect to be combat effective not to look cool . but looking cool is also just as important in these times
You don't look cool/do cool shit people won't talk or know about you , they won't read/research about your pov/experience about the conflicts in kashmir/NE while the standard news articles , books , videos calling you war criminals will keep on being published and read by thousands and you will constantly loose the game and loose your edge on military diplomacy . This cycle continues and your Noble org (one of the most effective in the world) will be nothing more than a 3rd world military in the eyes of the world ......