O R O P : FOR SUPER- POWER THE TRUTH IS " ROBUST ECONOMICS & STRONG ARMY ARE TWO INSEPARABLE FACETS OF THE SAME COIN "

SOURCE  : FACE  BOOK

Cdr Sharan Ahuja Sja

COURTESY VETERAN SURINDER SONI

In July 2011, I was travelling on road in USA On Highway 5. We stopped at SIX FLAGS AREA--- for refuelling and refreshment. It was 04 July---American Independence Day. I saw a notice on the restaurant entry---- Free meal and Drinks for veterans. I casually mentioned to owner that I was a veteran of Indian Army. Lo! He said " It is honour to have you here, Sir. We will give the same treatment to you" To say the least, he did not charge anything from us. What a respect for an alien soldier, who is disgraced and dishonoured in his own country! No wonders, USA is world"s only Super Power!!

It reminded me of atmosphere in Punjab vintage 1971 war--- when I was respected like this. Nations do not become great by lofty talks but by respecting the men who safeguard your honour. Respect and pride a nation pays to its veterans---- is the national premium for safety and security.

American national war memorial in Washington DC, is manned round the clock by serving soldiers. Come rain, snow and thunder, sentry stands unmoved right in the open. In our country war memorials are desecrated and disrespected. Stray dogs and wandering cows find a shelter there.

A few years back, a war memorial statue at Ludhiana in Punjab was uprooted and thrown away.

I remember when General Douglas Mac Arthur was the Chief of U.S. army in 1931, American president Franklin Roosevelt proposed to cut down defence expenditure. In a meeting with President , MC Arthur pleaded with the President not to cut. But Roosevelt did not listen to him and dismissed him. MC Arthur got up and walked away but then turned and said: Mr. President, when in the Next war , an American Soldier with enemy bayonet piercing his abdomen, spat out his last curse, I do not want the name to be MC Arthur but Roosevelt. It is NO gain saying the fact that Roosevelt reversed his decision.

Compare this with Indian Generalship. They do not even have the guts to cry on the insults being heaped upon them publicly by bureaucrats and politicians. 

             How sad we saw three Chiefs 

                   sitting as dumbos



 When Defence minister announced truncated OROP on 05 September 2015. Not a whimper of a protest by anyone of them. How sad they were not even consulted on PMR/ VRS issue before announcement.


 What was more disturbing was the facts that none of them had the guts to tell the RM : 

"" Mr. Defence Minister, Please tell your Prime Minister that it was a biggest insult you have heaped over the armed forces. Armed forces will not remain the same hereafter. If it is not rectified soon, the last bastion of holding together of Indian nationhood would get disintegrated. ""





An army of sheep, led by a lion, is better 

than an army of lions, led by a sheep.

      Sheepishly sat the three Chiefs

                               &
      sheepishly they walked away. 

Remember the quote by Sun Yet San, an ancient Chinese Military philosopher :

             I AM NOT AFRAID OF AN ARMY OF 100 TIGERS

                                    LED BY A SHEEP

                    BUT 100 SHEEP LED BY A TIGER.

There is a wrong notion that Military strength flows out of Economic strength. In fact it is the reverse of it. 

China was NO where in sixties and seventies but it successfully used its manpower to flex its military muscle to send cold sweat down the spine of USA and even USSR. Today its economy is of ten Trillion dollars while India is at Two Trillion Dollars. Mind you China became independent two years later than India.

+                                                                                            +      FOR A NATION  TO BECOME A SUPER POWER         
                              THE  TRUTH  IS                                        
                       " ROBUST ECONOMICS                                 
                                         &                                                      
                            STRONG ARMY                                          
          ARE COMPLEMENTARY  TO EACH OTHER"            
             REST ALL OTHER TOOLS OF GOVERNANCE       
                       ARE SUPLLEMENTARY                                  
                         LOOK AT THE IMPRESSION                        
                  OF ANY COIN OF ANY NATION .                        
 "ONE SIDE WILL SYMBOLISE 'POWER & THE OTHER ECONOMIC'S OF  PURCHASE POWER ' "  
    ECONOMICS  &  MILITARY POWERS ARE TWO                     INSEPARABLE  FACETS OF THE SAME COIN            
                                                 &                                              
                  WHO SO EVER  SAYS  OTHERWISE                  
                                       IS A "LIAR "-                                    
                                                                    VASUNDHRA


+                                                                                                                                              +

Look at USA. Their economic strength draws out of their Military power. In USA other than military arsenal and space research, nothing is manufactured. Everything comes from outside at terms dictated by USA.

And it is a 16 trillion economy-- merely because of its military muscles.

Look at your neighbour Pakistan. It is reckoned at par with India purely because of its military powers. Giant like India is a helpless spectator to Pakistan's pinpricks because we do not have the proper military muscle to shut her up.

Finally, Mr Modi must know that it was not the machine                                              BUT

 the man behind the machine which matters. Pakistan's Sabre jets and Patton Tanks in 1965 war fell prey to Indian Gnats and Sherman tanks respectively. 

The Kargil war of 1999 was NOT won by the Generals sitting in the AC rooms in                 Delhi or Srinagar but by motivated                    soldiers led by spirited 

                Captains and Majors .

What Modi Government & the bureaucrats did with the willing cooperation of the three Service Chiefs,on 05 September 2015, was to DEMOLISH  the spirit and motivation of the soldiers. 

Unless quickly rectified, our nation will pay a heavy price for disrespecting its veterans. And in the next war with China or Pakistan,when an Indian soldier flees from the battlefield, shame will be on this BJP Governments with veterans like General VK Singh, General Khanduri & Col Rajverdhan Rathore , and Not the soldiers because you broke their spirit.

 National humiliation would be worse than 1962 war. All your Raffles or Chinook deals or FDI investments would not be able to prevent this humiliation because 

              what matters more in war is 

               the man behind the machine.

                   The above is a circulating

                               "BITTER TRUTH "

just received by me. One  feels ashamed to read the same. This is how the present Govt is treating the Armed Forces.