Request to all indian citizens. Let this indian government continue after 24 if we want momentum in indian defence forces to maintain else khichdi govt might undo years of hard work
Good interview. The human dimension will be key to success. All organisations talk the talk. Let the Indian army walk the talk and show the world's its ability and professionalism.
It is amazing that the pandemic AND the war in Ukraine influenced self-reliance. Nitin, IMO, your type - dealing with the past - is a huge part of the problem. You can be a catalyst ONLY if you can rev up the entire system. Doable. Do it.
"We have a robust defensive posture"......this means that the honorable Chief is stating that the IA's ability to launch offensive actions anywhere on the LAC is pretty limited, if not absent. Getting the PLA out of the 1000 sq km area that it has captured is now impossible. The Indian establishment has sadly accepted it as a fait accompli!
You talk as if the fait accompli is recent. That happened back in 1962. Since then IA's defensive posture has managed to beat back any and all Chinese attempts at serious land grab. And thus no major changes have occurred on the LAC. You talk of lack of capability to launch an offensive across the LAC. Anyone with even a modicum of understanding of understanding of IA's ORBAT knows about the existence of the XVII Mountain Strike Corps. Its obvious that the capability now exists. And it is also blatantly obvious that just a single Strike Corps is not enough to reverse the fait accompli of 1959-62 i.e. recapture Aksai Chin. Which is why the Strike Corps has been positioned for counteroffensives on the North-Eastern front. Anybody who looks at the kind of terrain, orbats of either Armed Forces (Indian or Chinese) and the kind of military industry and budgets supporting either Armed Forces will come to the conclusion that a defensive posture with limited offensive capability serves India best. Nobody wants to harbour delusions of grandeur of retaking Tibet and then fail in the spectacular fashion Russians (supposedly) failed in Ukraine. Moreover, there is no political directive to the Indian Army to plan for retaking Aksai Chin or Tibet. Before barking up the wrong tree, maybe you should ask the Government of India to come out with a National Security Document?
@@death_parade Retaking Aksai Chin and Tibet is a pipe dream that should not be considered given the glaring asymmetries between the IA and the PLA, some of which you highlight and acknowledge. The fait accompli that I am talking about is the 1000 sq km of Indian territory, the loss of grazing lands, and the creation of buffer zones largely on the Indian side of the "perceived" LAC - since the PLA's ingressions in 2020. I am not going back to 60 years. Barring the so-called occupation of the Kailash ranges (which were tragically pawned away later), there has been no offensive action by the IA to even open up access to the earlier patrolling points that were available to the IA and which the PLA has denied since 2020. I am not giving a clean chit to the GoI in anyway. The entire politico-military dispensation in India needs to accept responsibility for the abject state of affairs.
@@actioergosum5193 The 1000 sq km of land "lost" is yet to be located by me despite my efforts at keeping up with the maps. Not that it matters anyways because these can be retaken during a future Indo-China war that _will_ happen (China can already feel the gap between our capabilities bridging).
This is a political decision. Not correct to point at the IA. Our forces have the ability and motivation to do the needful once a political decision is made.
@@ganesannarayanan2047 The first step towards becoming a stronger nation is to honestly assess and accept one’s weaknesses and shortcomings instead of engaging in misplaced bluster. The IA is simply in no shape to mount and sustain any offensive action on the Chinese side of the LAC. If it had been possible, it would already have been done by now!
Agniveer is a great concept that is going to energise the youth of India and instill in them a sense of discipline, duty, goal directed thinking, sense of belonging to the nation and patriotism and extracurricular training as a further bonus. These guys will be in demand in civilian companies and organisations even after that military training is over. We have seen these programmes in most of European countries and they work very well. Who would you chose to work and lead your company if you had to chose between an ex agniveer and a non agniveer person? Do you want a disciplined, motivated and a trained person or a person with just book knowledge?
Induction of Women into Artillery is the most illogical step,which both the Indian Army and India 🇮🇳 will soon come to regret. If The government is so fixed about introduction of women into the army and gender parity game ,why is is not introducing women in the ground level at the sepoy level..and also as agniveers .Full marks on rebalancing force levels towards the northern and eastern borders..
*Logistics, Technology and R&D, Hiring specialists and Consultants to help improve and innovate Armed forces from civil society. Indian military is still a 1940s military sorry to say.*
Tone down the hyperbole a bit please. I know of the sorry state of modernization (thanks to AK Antony for making a bad situation worse), but its definitely not 1940s.
Perhaps, the majority of the drones we have are American and Israeli, more Israeli than American. However, it seems that India also has many enterprises that produce military drones. Are the majority of them joint ventures with overseas enterprises? Do these Indian enterprises all have access to overseas drone technologies? I don't think so. India is exporting missiles, aircraft, and it will also export rifles in the future, but it doesn't seem to be exporting drones.
Nitin, please instruct your videographer to keep nervous fidgeting out of camera coverage. The COAS twiddling his thumbs should have been kept outside the frame.
Excellent discussion with our Army Chief. I was waiting eagerly for this conversation. Dhanyavad Nitin sir and Happy Makar Sankrant to everyone. Jai Hind 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Thanks for very informative discussion. India would be 2023 host of prestigious G20 with various G20 meetings planned all over India including in J&K and Pakistan will target J&K with terrorists to highlight that J&K is still unsettled. India must preempt that with artillery brush fires across LoC to destroy terrorist launch pads on the Pakistani side. That will also keep Pakistani army locked up in J&K which will give added advantage of relieving pressure on TTP which has joined hands with Baloch freedom fighters to bifurcate Pakistan. India must aim for that strategic gain which would be achievable in view of financially collapsing Pakistan.
1971 wasn't a war, but civil war of Bengali East Pakistan population of then 60 millions Bengalis.But India by way of propaganda fool it citizens that 1971 was a war triumph over Pakistan. Without Mukti Bahini consisting thousands of Bengali Pakistan Army, Navy Airforce and Police personnel who had joined with India and fought against Pakistan forces stationed in East Pakistan
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Big salute to the Indian Army ahead of the Army Day! Your spirit of courage, valor & sacrifice are beyond words can express.
A big thanks to Nitin Gokhale. For the tight focused talk.
Matter of fact. Professional. and typical corporate like. That's the face and life of Indian army.
Greetings on army day 🙏
Calm, matter-of-fact, comprehensive and extremely reassuring conversation!! Thank you Sir and Thank you Nitin 🙏🏽🙏🏽💕💕🇮🇳🇮🇳
आपके रहते है.... हम सब भारतीय निश्चिंत हैं।
जय हिन्द 🙏
Request to all indian citizens. Let this indian government continue after 24 if we want momentum in indian defence forces to maintain else khichdi govt might undo years of hard work
I m proud of my Indian army 🇮🇳 jai hind
Good interview. The human dimension will be key to success. All organisations talk the talk. Let the Indian army walk the talk and show the world's its ability and professionalism.
It is amazing that the pandemic AND the war in Ukraine influenced self-reliance.
Nitin, IMO, your type - dealing with the past - is a huge part of the problem. You can be a catalyst ONLY if you can rev up the entire system. Doable. Do it.
Big Salute to Indian Forces. Jai Hind. Thanks Nitinji for a fantastic Interview. jai Hind
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Excellent work. Great respect to Mr. Modi.
"We have a robust defensive posture"......this means that the honorable Chief is stating that the IA's ability to launch offensive actions anywhere on the LAC is pretty limited, if not absent. Getting the PLA out of the 1000 sq km area that it has captured is now impossible. The Indian establishment has sadly accepted it as a fait accompli!
You talk as if the fait accompli is recent. That happened back in 1962. Since then IA's defensive posture has managed to beat back any and all Chinese attempts at serious land grab. And thus no major changes have occurred on the LAC.
You talk of lack of capability to launch an offensive across the LAC. Anyone with even a modicum of understanding of understanding of IA's ORBAT knows about the existence of the XVII Mountain Strike Corps. Its obvious that the capability now exists. And it is also blatantly obvious that just a single Strike Corps is not enough to reverse the fait accompli of 1959-62 i.e. recapture Aksai Chin. Which is why the Strike Corps has been positioned for counteroffensives on the North-Eastern front.
Anybody who looks at the kind of terrain, orbats of either Armed Forces (Indian or Chinese) and the kind of military industry and budgets supporting either Armed Forces will come to the conclusion that a defensive posture with limited offensive capability serves India best. Nobody wants to harbour delusions of grandeur of retaking Tibet and then fail in the spectacular fashion Russians (supposedly) failed in Ukraine. Moreover, there is no political directive to the Indian Army to plan for retaking Aksai Chin or Tibet. Before barking up the wrong tree, maybe you should ask the Government of India to come out with a National Security Document?
@@death_parade Retaking Aksai Chin and Tibet is a pipe dream that should not be considered given the glaring asymmetries between the IA and the PLA, some of which you highlight and acknowledge. The fait accompli that I am talking about is the 1000 sq km of Indian territory, the loss of grazing lands, and the creation of buffer zones largely on the Indian side of the "perceived" LAC - since the PLA's ingressions in 2020. I am not going back to 60 years. Barring the so-called occupation of the Kailash ranges (which were tragically pawned away later), there has been no offensive action by the IA to even open up access to the earlier patrolling points that were available to the IA and which the PLA has denied since 2020. I am not giving a clean chit to the GoI in anyway. The entire politico-military dispensation in India needs to accept responsibility for the abject state of affairs.
@@actioergosum5193 The 1000 sq km of land "lost" is yet to be located by me despite my efforts at keeping up with the maps.
Not that it matters anyways because these can be retaken during a future Indo-China war that _will_ happen (China can already feel the gap between our capabilities bridging).
This is a political decision. Not correct to point at the IA. Our forces have the ability and motivation to do the needful once a political decision is made.
@@ganesannarayanan2047 The first step towards becoming a stronger nation is to honestly assess and accept one’s weaknesses and shortcomings instead of engaging in misplaced bluster. The IA is simply in no shape to mount and sustain any offensive action on the Chinese side of the LAC. If it had been possible, it would already have been done by now!
Great Sir. Unbiased reporting..
Good interview.
Awesome analysis....👌👌
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Agniveer is a great concept that is going to energise the youth of India and instill in them a sense of discipline, duty, goal directed thinking, sense of belonging to the nation and patriotism and extracurricular training as a further bonus. These guys will be in demand in civilian companies and organisations even after that military training is over. We have seen these programmes in most of European countries and they work very well. Who would you chose to work and lead your company if you had to chose between an ex agniveer and a non agniveer person? Do you want a disciplined, motivated and a trained person or a person with just book knowledge?
Awesome
Fantastic interview, @Nitin
Out of 8 lakh crore requirement indigenous procurement is 1 lakh crore,, so 12% for ATAMNIRBHAR... peanuts. REST FOR GAURA.
The question will come up in a year's time. So how much would you like to see that share go up by?
@@johndoe-vc1we Indian share should be 60% minimum.
@@PankajSachdeva so it needs t quadruple. Check back in five years' time? things are not going to remain static 🙂
@@johndoe-vc1we Do we have 5 years more?
@@PankajSachdeva I don't understand ? why do you think we do not
It’s good seeing India becoming independent.
Induction of Women into Artillery is the most illogical step,which both the Indian Army and India 🇮🇳 will soon come to regret. If The government is so fixed about introduction of women into the army and gender parity game ,why is is not introducing women in the ground level at the sepoy level..and also as agniveers .Full marks on rebalancing force levels towards the northern and eastern borders..
*Logistics, Technology and R&D, Hiring specialists and Consultants to help improve and innovate Armed forces from civil society. Indian military is still a 1940s military sorry to say.*
Tone down the hyperbole a bit please. I know of the sorry state of modernization (thanks to AK Antony for making a bad situation worse), but its definitely not 1940s.
Are we far ahead of Russia when it comes to drone technology and deployment? How did Russia ask Iran before the Ukraine war for drones, and not India?
Because Iran comes with less geopolitical baggage as they have pissed off enough people. We still have a geopolitical image to maintain
Perhaps, the majority of the drones we have are American and Israeli, more Israeli than American. However, it seems that India also has many enterprises that produce military drones. Are the majority of them joint ventures with overseas enterprises? Do these Indian enterprises all have access to overseas drone technologies? I don't think so. India is exporting missiles, aircraft, and it will also export rifles in the future, but it doesn't seem to be exporting drones.
Meanwhile DRDO atags is under environmental impact test. Are there any environmental friendly artillery?
Environment friendly?
User trials are cleared. The order will be placed by march
Please bhai dil se bura lagta he bhai :/
Nitin, please instruct your videographer to keep nervous fidgeting out of camera coverage. The COAS twiddling his thumbs should have been kept outside the frame.
Excellent discussion with our Army Chief. I was waiting eagerly for this conversation. Dhanyavad Nitin sir and Happy Makar Sankrant to everyone. Jai Hind 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
13:50 what is China's current thinking as you assess it"
22:20 Theaterisation & jointness
Jitne illegal Bangladeshi Rohingyas delhi Jammu jaipur ,etc me hai
China inko hi bhot ache se use krega
Ispr baat krna bhot important hai
How can we prevent our satellites from being destroyed or made ineffective? Also how can we make hostile satellites ineffective?
You cannot.
By shooting it down, which can cause debris fields which can kill your satellite so it's better to just not touch things in space.
Starlink is already showing how it is done.
Why does this Gokhale guy keep saying funny leas words like "sure, correct, ofcourse, right, humm and the prompts. Lol.
Thanks for very informative discussion. India would be 2023 host of prestigious G20 with various G20 meetings planned all over India including in J&K and Pakistan will target J&K with terrorists to highlight that J&K is still unsettled. India must preempt that with artillery brush fires across LoC to destroy terrorist launch pads on the Pakistani side. That will also keep Pakistani army locked up in J&K which will give added advantage of relieving pressure on TTP which has joined hands with Baloch freedom fighters to bifurcate Pakistan. India must aim for that strategic gain which would be achievable in view of financially collapsing Pakistan.
Why does he look like this ???
Hmmm...his body language is not confident
1971 wasn't a war, but civil war of Bengali East Pakistan population of then 60 millions Bengalis.But India by way of propaganda fool it citizens that 1971 was a war triumph over Pakistan. Without Mukti Bahini consisting thousands of Bengali Pakistan Army, Navy Airforce and Police personnel who had joined with India and fought against Pakistan forces stationed in East Pakistan
We took Two Nation theory of Jinnah seriously. Within two decades another nation came in place.
If Pakistan can make terrorist groups for fight then why cannot India make mukti vahini of Bangladeshi people's? Take that back.