Intel failures happen. A dozen US soldiers were blown up in a suicide bomb blast while hurriedly leaving Talibanistan. In that case they had Intel too that a blast was possible but the exact location was hard to determine. Simply having intelligence about a possible strike is not enough in a large country like India. Locations are needed. Unless we figure out a way to decrypt all the terrorist’s communications in real time and place moles within terror groups, it is impossible to learn that. Not even Mossad can pull it off. What Mossad does is build surprise measures that kill comms like the pager explosions of Hezbollah. We should have quietly tracked down who built the satcom phones for Porki Army and put some pav kilo atum bum in there.
Definitely, and as defense commentator Shiv Aroor observes( and I am sure many others) we don't always hear of the great successes of Indian security and intelligence in thwarting so many terrorist plots. Or even if we do, we don't remember or appreciate enough. It's only the few 'failures' that are talked about. Questions must be asked, that is for certain, but let's keep a sense of balance.
If the goal is to economically weaken Pakistan, keeping up sustained low intensity military ops benefits India long term.
I did predict this would happen.
The only thing that matters is that the terror camps have been destroyed. Pakistan can claim victory, but it makes no difference.No Palestine didn't winThere are Israeli bots, content creators, writers being heavily funded working within social media, mainstream media, even telegram consistently peddling their narratives worldwide. They spend heavily on Media. Moreover Israel has achieved things on the ground to see.
Petty politics of Rahul Gandhi/moral victory is way different than winning war/skirmish or even claiming to win it. It will be written in the history books & will have geopolitical implications. You need to counterbalance with proof, narratives even in your worst times. We know what happened but the next generation will probably not. How do you think Congress eliminated Hindu history?
Rafle was shot at whether it was downed or not that's a different thing.
Life of terrorists isn't worth much, even after 100 killed they will reproduce another 200.
Will expanding the existing project be enough though?
They won't reinstate that's fine, but do they have the will to punish porks?
