Afghan endgame: As Americans retreat, India needs plan B

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Re: Afghan endgame: As Americans retreat, India needs plan B

@BindazChakkar

1. What do you mean Indian interfered in Sri Lanka affairs? Rajiv Gandhi & Jayawardene signed an accord based on which Jayawardene requested peace keeping forces from India; India obliged. That is helping not interfering. As you know India paid dearly for this at the hands of LTTE when they killed Rajiv Gandhi for helping the Sri Lankan government.
   ](Indian Peace Keeping Force - Wikipedia)2) What are you basing your statement that India threatened Pakistan on 3 instances?

I wonder why do we get indians like this here. Seriously, where do you think the major support for LTTE was coming from? I don’t know about Nepal, as it is little more independent than bhutan, but I think bangladesh also accuses india of arming shanti bahini in the past.

@CM

Strategic depth is built on the premise that India will attempt to disect the country into half at its shortest width. A valid strategy that India has chosen to employ. Strategic depth sees Afghanistan as a fall back location from which to recoil against the Indian forces.

If the boundary line is officially demarcated and patrolled, the Pakistan army would require permission from the Afghan Government to enter and use it. However if the boundary is not demarcated, not patrolled and remains in the hands of tribal groups and militants who are allied to the Pakistani military apparatus, that access is absolutely ensured without any permission or support.

I thought that strategic depth meant that Afghanistan can’t be used against Pakistan like how the Iranians found a back door to get at Sparta thousands of years ago. Economic benefits are the icing on the cake, but to think that Pakistan army would withdraw back to afghanistan is ludicrous. Pakistan army would have be to destroyed, if it is a patriotic & professional force, to lose control of its major arteries in punjab and sindh. Pakistan would probably have nuked india by that point, instead of fighting an extended guerrilla war from the mountains of AfPak. People think a guerrilla war is a joke, but you lose a lot in your country and it takes years to win even if 1 billion indians couldn’t stomach some secondary attrition losses.