A SANCTION-BURSTING EXERCISE
By S.P. Attri (USA)

1. A 5-day defense exhibition, India's first, is opening up in Delhi beginning tomorrow (12 Oct 99) and arms merchants of the world (sometimes sardonically referred to as the merchants of death) are heading towards Delhi to participate in this exhibition. Approximately 117 companies from around the world are presenting themselves at this 5-day event, along with 30 foreign delegations which include defense ministers, these form the list of those who are attending. Absent are US, China, and NaPakistan. US is the nation which imposed sanctions on India, immediately after India's nuclear tests, and these sanctions prohibited technology transfers to India.

2. The entire Indian spectrum of indigenous land, naval, and air systems will be shown to demonstrate India's technological spread, with a view to secure prospective collaborative overseas partners. Included in this demonstration are products of India's state-run ordnance factories, research facilities, and private sector companies. This defense exhibition appears to arrive essentially as a sanction-bursting exercise. The message of the exhibition seems to be that India is going ahead with its security plans and everybody is invited to participate. Britain, France, South Africa, and Israel are amongst the attendees and are sending commercial and official delegations.

3. India is very keen to secure joint production partnerships with overseas partners especially from those in Britain, France, Israel, and South Africa. India is also very interested in scouting markets in East Asia and African nations for the export of its military equipment coming out of its fledgeling production units. India has a price edge because of lower production costs. Included in the export items could be missile systems but consideration would have to be given to geo-political factors. The areas that are certain to be included in foreign collaboration are electronics and avionics and are expected to fructify soon.

4. Inorder to thwart getting trapped into another Kargil-type situation and surprise, the BJP government is expected to stream-line the Indian Armed Forces and upgrade their equipment and armaments to improve the war-fighting capabilites of the defense forces. Army, Navy, and Air Force are expected to submit their requests and equipment lists for order-of-magnitude upgrade to their equipment, adequate enough to safeguard the defense of the country's borders. Critical items will be identified and these will be included in the items for exchanges and license-production with the foreign partners. Arms merchants of the world who are descending upon Delhi are anxious to bid and obtain lucrative contracts for the sale of their arms and equipment. The budgetary pressures on the defense services will multiply to pay for the purchase of this foreign equipment. That is why it is imperative for India to bolster its arms export to enable it to earn the foreign exchange needed to pay for imports. China has been exporting its military equipment with the same aim but India has not been very active in the export area. The picture is expected to change soon and India is expected to enter the arms export arena in a big way.

5. The contracts and collaborations arrived as a result of this exhibition should enable India to defeat a wide range of threats coming from any direction in future. We don't want to be ill-prepared for war, either militarily, politically, or psychologically. We do not want to let things get out of hand due to military action of our adversaries and then expect the armed forces to handle and take care of the situation. That is why emphasis is on the identification and acquisition of critical items. Ground surveillance radars, unattended sensors, thermal imagers etc etc are expected to be in the list of critical items needed for Himalayan defense against threats from across the border, from terrorists and from the hostile actions of neighbors. We have a lot of catching up to do in this area.

6. The victorious Indian troops of Kargil were terribly envious of the enemy they vanquished, not because they fought better but because they lived and dressed better and in style. The NaPakis had cable television connections inside their bunkers. They had phone lines which they used to speak to their families for 25 to 30 minutes at a time. They had fiber-glass bunker-sheds, designer sunglasses (these glasses block the glare entirely and drastically cut the ultra-violet rays which are very strong up there in the high hills), Swiss jackets, thermal-wear undergarments, had even track-suits for disguise. The sun-glasses had small leather blinkers on the sides to block the wind, which gets very vicious in the upper reaches. The high-altitude survival stuff...the tents, heating systems, and inner clothing that the NaPakis had showed that they not only were well-prepared but better than well. The NaPaki equipment had comparative superiority over the homespun stuff used by the Indian troops.

7. The lesson to be learned from this experience is to wake up before it is too late...before your head is chopped off for being a Kafir Hindu, before you are labelled as a Kafir Hindu, before your sisters are taken away and ceremoniously converted into Islam. No soldier can win the war unless his nation backs him, provides him with proper equipment, food, and logistic and ammunition resources.

8. Indian Experts tell us that the real difference between India and NaPakistan lies in the fact that NaPakistan has the killer instinct and we do not. If you cannot extract false confessions from the prisoners you have captured, then you must torture them, maim them, kill them by gouging out their eyes and chopping off their testacles. This is the killer instinct that drives the NaPakistanis. We do not have this killer instinct driving us.

9.For decades, we have seen the unpleasant realities of hostile actions from our neighbors. Our people have been killed, wounded, our cities have been destroyed and devastated. It is necessary to build up our defense capability sufficiently to serve notice upon NaPakistan, loud enough for it to hear that Indian patience is not just wearing thin, it is gone. Our armaments need to be potent enough so we can kill 100 of the NaPakis for every one of our casaulties and that we can rapidly retaliate not only in POK or in NaPaki Panjab but can conduct a large scale invasion of NaPakistan itself, to teach the NaPakis a good Sabak (Lesson)

10. Early action is necessary as time may be running out for us. Just imagine what would happen when the next of Nawaz Sharif's "1000 Kargils" occurs. Presumably, this one will be planned much better than his last one and will again hit us when and where we are not looking. Prabably their nuclear threat will be far worse. NaPakistan tried to take a road from Kargil to Srinagar but ended up taking a road from Kargil to Washing ton D.C. instead. But it was not without the application of relentless pressure, it took us two months to rout the NaPakis, we had to throw in the entire might of the Indian Armed Forces and take several hundred casualties of our own to throw out the NaPakis. We don't want ever to be caught again in this kind of surprise situation.

11. At this time the world reaction is slightly less hostile towards India. They are inclined to believe that NaPakistan has not been telling the truth all the time and India has not been lying all the time. That is why they did not demand India's withdrawl as they did of NaPakistan. We should take advantage of our present favorable diplomatic position and build up our defense potential rapidly, while we have time available in which to do it. Throughout the last five decades, one constant thread that has been running in the history and psyche of NaPakistn is its vicious hatred and hostility of the Kafir Hindustan and this Kafir land has been on the NaPaki Hit List. The NaPakis will continue to be deamons of death for the Kafir Hindus; their God (Allah) has separated them from Kafirs, has told them that they (the Moslems) belong to him (Allah) and he protects them from Exclusively belonging to him ( Allah) and sends the Kafirs to Allah's Hell. This is Allah's FATWA and no Moslem has the authority to change it, it is built into the Islam's system.

12. If we are adequately equipped and prepared, we don't have a problem keeping the military situation in our favor and can take care of any threat from NaPakistan. For all the innocent souls that Moslems have slaughtered, pillaged, plundered, and mutilated, over the centuries of Islamic history, there will be some form of "natural law" in the backyard of NaPakistan, the consequences of which will be an everlasting tutioning experience for every NaPakistani.

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