March 26, 2009

TAMP 'EM UP SOLID:

India's emerging power makes Chinese army worried: Pentagon (PTI, 3/26/09)

India's emergence as an economic, political and military power has left Chinese army worried, even as the two countries in the recent years have increased their economic and military cooperation, a report released by Pentagon said.

"The PLA (People's Liberation Army) remains concerned with persistent disputes along China's shared border with India and the strategic ramifications of India's rising economic, political, and military power," the Pentagon said in its Congressional mandated annual report on China's army.


Indian Army fears China attack by 2017 (Rahul Singh, 3/26/09, Hindustan Times)
The Indian military fears a ‘Chinese aggression’ in less than a decade. A secret exercise, called ‘Divine Matrix’, by the army’s military operations directorate has visualised a war scenario with the nuclear-armed neighbour before 2017.

“A misadventure by China is very much within the realm of possibility with Beijing trying to position itself as the only power in the region. There will be no nuclear warfare but a short, swift war that could have menacing consequences for India,” said an army officer, who was part of the three-day war games that ended on Wednesday.

In the military’s assessment, based on a six-month study of various scenarios before the war games, China would rely on information warfare (IW) to bring India down on its knees before launching an offensive.


India is our hostage to fortune, giving us pre-texts for strikes against China to the East and Pakistan to the West.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 26, 2009 9:32 AM
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