That was a different time and circumstances we were fighting a few million pakistani and their supporters.
We will be going against the full nation if it turned to war.
Check out the equipment of their army. It seems they have a major focus on anti tank and anti armored push. They have the necessary equipment and I can't speak much of their tactics.
A army is still a army if nothing else than they will be a active frontier.
Even a monkey with a sword is still a threat and has to be put down.
Not to mention I have a constant irking thought of Umrica cutting us down to size during any war that is not in their favour.
You saw how the Nupur Sharma case turned ugly. Murica cab push the Quataris to do Islam khatre me he and force the hand of other oil rich nation to cut us down.
Depends on what's the objective. Is our objective the invasion of BD or a short sharp border war ?
In case of the former , Paxtan is a tougher bet as the country's awash with Pvt arms & tanzeems apart from their Army & AF which I wouldn't dismiss off hand even if their capacities are somewhat diminished.
BD has tanzeems just not the kind of arms seem in Pvt hands as in Paxtan nor an arms mfg cottage industry like in Darra Adam Khel , etc .
Neither their Navy nor AF poses ANY threat leave alone significant. If ALL OUT war is declared , that significantly reduces their Army's capacity mount a credible defence.
I'm still not clear if the US is behind what's transpired in BD coz I don't see them getting basing rights if that's what they were seeking there. Other than that the other objective would be to prevent China basing rights but there's no evidence that's what the SHW was planning.
If not these , the only other objective would have been is to undermine India but that's a long term project . It's not going to deliver anything much of significance right now . In other words what this means is they could wait for the departure of SHW from the scene.
What the above signifies is there may have been something else which has prompted the US to behave the way the did which acted as a catalyst , assuming the US engineered the whole thing . What that is , is unknown as of now. Perhaps in due course of time we'd find out.
@Azaad did mention once that he had conversation with hellfire once where he revealed we have a plan to deal with hostile population in pol maybe the same can be applied.
Hellfire was actually being evasive. He proposed we could cut through Paxtan in a fortnight & bisect the land into 2 .
I posited the scenario of an Iraq style insurgency given the proliferation of armed tanzeems , the vast presence of Pvt arms & a flourishing cottage industry in small arms & asked him what would our response be ? He answered we'd treat them like we treated the jawans of the PA & deal with them accordingly.
Now this was nearly 6-7 years ago much before the US withdrew from Afghanistan , the Ukrainian war began where the full impact of drone warfare is seen or the Israeli operations in Gaza & the time it has taken to undertake what it has in a densely populated area which isn't much in terms of the sheer area but with plenty of unarmed civilians & a militia undertaking guerrilla operations behind the cover of unarmed civilians. If I'm not mistaken the operation is still on & we're close to the first anniversary of the operation.
