buddykvm.blogg.se - Himalayan blunder by jp dalvi

Wars are not decided in the corridors of the central secretariat, wars are not based on wishful thinking and wars are not rash promises or improvident expectations.

Indian army had got into the questionable habit of rushing senior officers to the front on every occasion.

An order more easy to issue than obey - "Fight last man last round.".

Anyone who had his ear and confidence wielded immense power.

Kaul met most of the important politicians and govt officials long before he would have done in the line of duty.

It is the duty of soldiers to obey it is equally the duty of senior soldiers on rare occasions to say that certain orders cannot be obeyed.

Public opinion is an unsatisfactory reason for abandoning the basic canons of war.Are the nation's leaders supposed to dispense with military principles and prudence under pressure from as nebulous a factor as public opinion?.Thimayya needed no lessons in elementary patriotism.Nehru won his Pyrrhic victory but lived to regret it.Crash programmes have no place in long term planning.Friendly gestures by enemy cannot be used as an excuse for improvident hopes military inaction and neglect.

Seldom has the bravery of Indian soldier been utilised to win battlefield victories and thus attain political objectives.My countrymen were so conscious of what they owed Nehru that they did not want to hear about his faults.India has a near unbroken record of military failures through the ages.In addition to the book the valuable lessons of this book extracted from it are given below for the benefit of all concerned, especially the military commanders at all levels.