An apt perspective by you. Let's clarify something. The political...
𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊🇮🇳@hellfire_81
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Nov 15, 2025
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An apt perspective by you.
Let's clarify something.
The political directives to Armed Forces, in 2019, were to carry out strikes in a way that the adversary could not make the narrative into an India-Pakistan military conflict, hence the restrictions put in form of RoEs at (1/n)
Let's clarify something.
The political directives to Armed Forces, in 2019, were to carry out strikes in a way that the adversary could not make the narrative into an India-Pakistan military conflict, hence the restrictions put in form of RoEs at (1/n)
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@hellfire_81 While military briefing to pol leadership n other state institutions is essential, it is equally important for military leadership to gain insight into the perspectives of other stakeholders. One-way info flow creates silos, which can be detrimental to cohesive national strategy
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the time, which saw a pure defensive approach by the IAF. The uproar in Indian Defence Space over the same notwithstanding, the approach allowed India to effectively keep the narrative to a pure anti-terror operation & 'restraint' in response to PAF shenanigans & Indian (2/n)
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actions in ensuring release of own Pilot, kept the whole action strictly in the domain of the anti-terror ops.
The present action is being seen as an act of a rogue military leadership (parts of it or the whole) that continues to use terror as a policy to ensure its own (3/n)
The present action is being seen as an act of a rogue military leadership (parts of it or the whole) that continues to use terror as a policy to ensure its own (3/n)
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survival & maintain the tenuous hold over power in a nation that is struggling to survive. The political directives this time appear to be to address this particular subset in a holistic manner, wherein a combination of sustained diplomatic & military pressure, will be used (4/n)
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to challenge this subset. A calibrated & sequentially escalatory multimodal pressure, will be put. The game appears to be longer - shaping of common Pakistani's perception of this subset that is out to undermine its interests to ensure own survival at any cost with using (5/n)
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sustainable measures to degrade the capability of the subset on a permanent basis.
Towards the same, I expect military strikes to be calibrated in order to showcase the inability of this subset of Pakistan to insure its own interests & also designed to undermine their (6/n)
Towards the same, I expect military strikes to be calibrated in order to showcase the inability of this subset of Pakistan to insure its own interests & also designed to undermine their (6/n)
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compentency in their core field. Let's see how this plays out.
One thing was clear by 8 am yesterday - forces have been told to act in a way that any interference in subsequent anti-terror operations is to be deemed as an interference by terror support structure & not as (7/n)
One thing was clear by 8 am yesterday - forces have been told to act in a way that any interference in subsequent anti-terror operations is to be deemed as an interference by terror support structure & not as (7/n)
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a military engagement.
The proverbial ducks are now being lined up by the GoI.
(8/n)
The proverbial ducks are now being lined up by the GoI.
(8/n)
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@threadreaderapp unroll please
