Indo American Vajra Prahar 2016

Indo American Vajra Prahar 2016

    Green Berets assigned to 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), conducted Vajra Prahar training exercise with Indian Special Operation Forces at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Camp Rilea, Ore., Jan. 18-29, 2016.

   The two-week exercise, which hasn't happened at JBLM since 2011, was a bilateral Joint Combined Exchange Training exercise that improves the ability of the forces involved to respond to a wide range of contingencies. The past few years has seen increased cooperation between the two countries military forces with a remarkable expansion of bilateral training exercises.

    "I see our military to military partnership as a very important pillar that contributes to the strategic relationship between the two countries," said Lt. Col. Terry Butcher, commander of 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne). "They [India] are a very important partner, both for the regional security of south Asia and the maritime security. I think that we directly contribute to that by working with their special operation forces."

   The two countries are working together to safeguard maritime security and freedom of navigation as well as strengthening their partnership to combat terrorism and piracy.

   "The exercise was strictly maritime focused so everything that we did was in the water," said 2nd battalion's operational detachment commander. "We started with an introduction to boat movements and finished with the culminating exercise which was an 8 nautical mile boat movement to a beach landing."

   Along with the boat movements and beach landing the training exercise also included diving, navigation, helo-casting and an airborne operation.

   "Working out there with them in the water we get better and they get better," said Butcher. "We improve upon our individual skills and collective skills as a unit."

   "We trained for this at home, jumping into cold water," said Maj. Puneet Atwal, commander of the Indian forces. "This is good training. This military to military interaction between the countries will be good for our future."

   Butcher said that the training strengthens the partnership, builds relationships and provides better interoperability.

   "If there ever comes a time where we have to work directly hand-in-hand with our Indian partners, understanding the way that they operate on the ground or in the water is going to enable us to work with them using their particular tactics and their methods of operation," said Butcher. "Just knowing that you have a foreign military unit that you can reach out to, keeps the relationship strong between our units."

   "The greatest benefit for our soldiers is any chance that we get to work along side our allies," said the operational detachment commander. "It was a good exercise and we got a lot out of it and everyone came away a better-trained soldier."

   The U.S. is committed to broadening ties to Indo-Asia-Pacific partners. As part of the rebalance, the U.S. is strengthening traditional alliances while enhancing forward presence in Southeast Asia, in Oceania and the Indian Ocean.

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Republican candidate Trump : Believe in India

Republican candidate Trump : Believe in India

    The US Schedule to conduct the next round of Presidential election by next November, and the Campaign already started by two biggest parties who ruled America in the past, US has two biggest Parties, one is the Democratic party another is the Republicans, the famous presidents like George Bush, Nixon, Reagen are all Republicans, where Kennedy, Clinton Obama are all Democratic, both have huge difference's in their approach towards  foreign policy, Democratic always soft characters, the North Korean Nuke deal is the example, while Republicans are bit aggressive peoples, they are the one who waged war over Middle East.

     Same like Congress in India, Democratic are old fashioned peoples, they can keep their friendships with long standing ally's only, and never tried to establish new connection or expanding their interests, compared to Republicans, Democratic peoples love to keep the Pakistan friendship, how ever the Republicans are pro Indians and hate to make friendships with rouge Muslim nations and communists nations like Russia, China, North Korea, one of the recent example is Republican candidate Ben Carson, who is the director of Neurosurgery in America's famous hospital John Hopkins said that, I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that,” he told host Chuck Todd. When asked if he believed Islam “is consistent with the Constitution,” Carson answered, “No, I don’t, I do not.”

   Unlike the Republican candidates, Democratic's were happy to join hands with islamic nations, The Iranian Nuke deal is the good example and soft stand in Ukrainian issue and South China sea issue, even the shocking news is once the French are ready to strike some Selected targets inside Syria, when more than 1500 civilians dead in a worst chemical bombing, however the Obama administration ordered the French do not step in the battle, and keep enjoyed more deaths of innocence civilians, also many US military officers and NATO countries urged Obama administration do not supply arms to Sunni militants, However the Democratic rejected the plea and join with KSA to supply arms and ammunition to Radical Islamist rebels in Syria.

    Donald Trump is the famous business man in America, who is a bright candidate from the Republican party, some other known candidates from the Republican party is Jeb Bush- son of ex president Bush, the known Rand Paul, and Indian origin Bobby Jindal too, Trump is more aggressive when comes to foreign policy, who also hates those radical Islamist controlled rough nations, and openly supported India's moves many times,

    In a recent interview about east Asia policy, Trump openly talked about Pakistan and compared it with North Korea, stating both nuclear nations are the threat to mankind, also he talked many things about Pakistan, include delivering freedom to Pakistan from the Air, just like how America provided freedom to Iraq and Afghan earlier, He also said US must move with India to Check Pakistan from every corner, Trump also sounded Pakistan is the most dangerous country along with Iran and North Korea, peoples must accept the Iranian regime runs by radical shia extremists, who always threaten to destroy US and Israel, the only reason they hates Pakistan is, its a Sunni majority nation. and there is no doubt both the Shia and Sunni extremists are same.

    As a known truth also revealed by Trump is, US can send it's ground troops into Pakistan to seize the Pakistani nuclear weapons, if the situation becomes worse, he also said that DPRK is openly threaten America while Pakistan working behind the closed doors, Trump says in the interview he will not reveal his military plans against Pakistan, he says Pakistan can guess what I mean, there is only one country in the world who is working very closely to seize the Pakistani nuclear is Israel, they plans to strike the Pakistani nukes several times, however they never tried, which means they never withdraw their plans, If times comes good Israel can do his mission,

    Israel is the only country in the world who heavily affected by the Islamic terrorism, earlier countries like Iraq and Syria almost closer to posses the Nuke weapons, however Israel bombed their dream, Pakistan is the only other Muslim nation with nukes, where Iran almost closer to producing  the nuke weapons. Israel tried several times to bomb the Iranian facilities, however the soften democratic leaders from the US argued Israel do not move on.

    The Current US Indian relationship goes very smoothly, India want US to keep away from Pakistan, since US still helping his cold war ally, by supplying aid money along with weapons and fighter jets. and It would be good to see in future US may completely moves away from the Pakistan, which is good to Both India and Israel, It's high time that many American loves the Indians and slowly hates the Pakistani radical extremism, with new Regime in US by Next year could make India way very closer to America.

Cold war reloaded. Its Raptors against Flankers over European skies.

United States Air Force to deploy F-22 Raptors in Europe to deter Russian Flankers

       The military build up in Eastern Europe has gone a notch up, USA has now decided to field heavy war machinery across European countries. Specific sources have confirmed that USA is contemplating about deploying at least a single squadron of its most advanced F 22 Raptor in bases in the European bases. USA has termed Russia as the biggest threat in the region. Soon after Baltic nations became part of NATO, America deployed two Threat Security Packages (TSP) consisting of twelve F-15 from the Florida National Guard and twelve A-10 thunderbolt from the 355^th fighter wing.

     Raptor are the most priced possession of the USAF which has not even been exported to its trusted allies. The Raptors have been till time deployed in mainland America and operated in the Asia-Pacific region but only as rotational deployment. USA has just concluded its naval drills with Ukraine, Russia had warned of a befitting reply to the drills. In a surprise and an extremely risky maneuver a Russian Su-24 jet buzzed USS Donlad Cook in Black Sea. US had termed this move as extremely provocative and have warned Russia against any such maneuvers in the future. 

      Ever since the Ukrainian invasion, relations between Russia and USA have been severed and experts believe the countries are at the brink of starting a modern cold war scenario. Air space violation, repeated weapons validation tests and bi-lateral exercises have doubled ever since. USA and the rest of the western bloc have hit the Russian economy hard by imposing economic sanctions. Putin has been putting up a brave face all along but with Russia being cornered the development rather the existence of a self-prevailing Russia is being questioned. Crimea has been a key talking point all along, the incident of MH-17 send ripples across the globe. Russia and involved nations are nuclear states and have the highest stockpile of the WMD’s.


 Lost is the era under USSR when Russia was an unchecked power, but the collapse of USSR changed the course for Russia. Russia lost the regional control and also lost the prosperous states which were under its control. Russia under Putin is headed towards restoring the dominance in the region. Putin has adopted the best possible aggressive move to put Russia where it once belonged.

It all started with Russia annexing Crimea, which the international community had reportedly recognized as Ukrainian territory.  Facing the wrath of Russia, Ukraine was forced to join NATO and OSCE to counter the Russians.  With Ukraine a success, Putin focused towards the other former USSR nations specially Latvia and Lithuania.

     Russian forces have been violating the international airspace at alarming levels. There have been instances when Russians had deployed two Tu 92 bombers on a long range patrol over the International border. The Tuplov aircraft were accompanied by two IL 78 aerial refuel tankers which were escorted by two heavily armed Su 27. The patrol stretched as far as Portugal and was then resisted by Typhoons which escorted out the formation.  

      With violations increasing at an alarming rate the smaller countries have expressed their disability to check the repeated violations. Germany, Britain and France are being outstretched, the answer came with USA deploying its F-15’s in bases across Europe but these squadrons are up for rotation. After the Crimean annexation the patrol missions have reached to an astonishing sixteen missions from a mere two missions.

    US Air force secretary Daborah James has confirmed the news and has stated that ‘ Russia was the biggest threat on her mind’. The secretary went on to say “It's extremely worrisome on what's going on in the Ukraine. We've seen the type of warfare, which someone dubbed it hybrid warfare, which is somewhat new. So I would put that at the top of my list.”   The F-22 will not be deployed on a permanent basis rather on a rotational deployment. The F-22 will be replacing the home bound F-15’s, six Raptors were deployed in bases along the Asia-Pacific region. The fighter was homed in Dubai and Japan, the F-22 had proved their might by escorting a US navy MQ4 drone which was being tailed by a Iranian F-14.

      With the AESA radars the F22 can jam low powered passive radars, like NIIP Radar which is fitted onto most of the Russian flankers. The situation though critical along the international airspace will surely not witness any aircraft firing missiles. Hence the need will be for a versatile jet that can meddle with the enemy platforms and at the same time defend and attack if the need arises. The deployment of F-22 is also a win-win situation to the USAF, the operations of F-22 has been largely constrained to mainland US. With the deployment to troubled skies the fighter will also get a shot at proving it’s might against the most capable enemy of US. The aircraft has some of the latest technology on-board and clubbed with stealth the aircraft is a flying ghost house in the skies. It has to be seen what will be answer of Russian forces for the deployment of the F-22’s.   

Article - Karthik Kakoor

Operation Maitri - Restoring and Rebuilding Nepal

 Operation Maitri – Rebuilding Nepal

   At around 12’0 on 25th the April, the earth shook in Nepal and across northern and eastern India. Nepal was struck by a 7.8 magnitude earth quake which reduced the nation to rubble's, Eastern India bear the brunt with the several buildings across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal. The earth quake triggered avalanches across the Himalayan range. Landslides were witnesses and major roads were taken out.

       Aftershocks continued for several days, the highest measuring almost up to 7.1 on the Richter scale. The earth quake had left a trail of destruction and several villages across Nepal were left inaccessible. Going by the magnitude of the earthquake it was sure that the casualties suffered in the calamity was very high and the rescue missions were the need of the hour.

      Nepal was overwhelmed by the scale of destruction and with a limited military and para-military force was forced to look out for a multi-nation rescue operation. Being Nepal’s immediate neighbor India responded with in minutes to the request. PM Modi promised a full scale rescue mission would be mounted within the shortest possible span.

        It was decided that the immediate response team would consist of rescue and medical teams which were formed by the NDRF and Ghurkha regiment officers. The first C-130J carrying NDRF officials and 3 tonnes of medical and emergency supplies took off by 4:00 PM. Air force, Army and NDRF assets were immediately put on standby for any eventuality. GOI planned further missions once the airport in Nepal was declared safe for operations.

      The NDRF was charged with carrying out the rescue and relief mission and the army was charged with setting up facilities for relief operations. By the evening ten teams from the NDRF consisting of almost 500 personnel and sniffer dogs were ordered to be flown to Nepal with the assistance of IAF. With the KTM airport being declared safe for operations, IAF rolled out the gigantic C-17 Globe master III.

     The C-17 on the first day was dispatched to KTM with NDRF teams, Rapid Action Medical Teams (RAMT) and Medical teams. The aircraft also carried essential supplies which consisted of blankets, food packets, water, medical supplies, tents and transportable operation theaters for the RAMT. The IL-76 heavy lifters were also pressed into action. By the first day Indian Air Force had carried out more than 20 sorties and had evacuated thousands of survivors which included citizens from US, UK and many other nations.

      IAF had operated sorties throughout the night flying to and fro from KTM. By the second day the operation was officially code named “Operation Maitri “, IAF by then had pressed more than 10 aircraft into action which included the C-17 Globemaster III, IL-76, C-130J and An-32’s. Sunday morning flights were dedicated to transporting urgent medical supplies and medical teams. Engineering teams were also dispatched which were instrumental in setting up forward field hospitals and tents to accommodate the survivors.

           The second half of the day saw IAF making sorties with additional NDRF teams and engineering teams. Almost 50 tons of water and 22 tons of food supplies were stacked up in KTM airport. India also started mounting a huge scale evacuation operation and operated 35 buses from Nepal. Bad weather and repeated aftershocks forced IAF to hold back pressing the helicopters into service.




          On the ground the NDRF and the Army jawans had started searching for survivors. NDRF teams were pulling out survivors from debris. The injured were being treated in first aid centers setup across the nation. To treat the critically wounded were being taken care of in forward field hospitals which included OT’s and ICU’s.

         The engineering teams primarily started constructing as many field hospitals possible and then concentrated on pitching up tents for the survivors. The engineering team was also put in charge of clearing debris and clearing roads, which could then help gain access to remote villages. With the tents setup the army started with the process of distributing food and water to the affected and the process of rehabilitation to the centers started.

         With roads being rendered inactive many villages remained inaccessible, to access these villages IAF pitched in their helicopters. IAF initially deployed 8 Mi-17 and 2 Dhruv’s to assist in the operations. The Mi-17 and Dhruv dropped relief supplies to the worst affected valleys where landing was not possible. Several wounded and stranded people were evacuated in the helicopters from the remotest areas. Dhruv under the Army Aviation corps was also pitched into service.

      The rotary crafts served the remotest areas of Nepal and helped save thousands of injured and survivors. The Mi-17 were based at Pokhara and Kathmandu. These Mi-17’s were part of the large scale relief and rescue operations in inaccessible areas like Barpak, Gorkha, Aroghat and Lukla.

       The combined Indian forces worked in Nepal for well over 40 days. The Air force and army together flew more than 2223 sorties in a span of just 38 days. About 11200 people were transported to safer places and about 1700 tonne of relief material was dropped for people in distress. The Rapid Action Medical Teams (RAMT) cared for almost 4762 injured people and conducted more than 300 successful operations.

  
  The NDRF worked tirelessly to restore human life in Kathmandu. NDRF saved thousands of life’s even as the earth shook when they deep inside buildings. The Engineering Task Force (ETF) cleared many routes which were rendered inactive because of the quake and landslides. The ETF were instrumental in help re-connect villages which helped in relief operations. The ETF also restored several hundred buildings and bridges across the nation.

      The earth quake was the worst calamity to have struck Nepal after the 1934 earth quake. More than 9000 people lost their life and the quake left 22000 people injured. The earth quake left a trail of destruction rendering thousands of Nepali’s homeless, homes and buildings were razed to the ground. After shocks has continued to rock Nepal keeping its people in constant fear. More than 450000 people have been displaced and have lost their livelihood.

        Widespread avalanches and landslides were reported across the nation further endangering human life. The economic loss Nepal has suffered cannot be calculated at the movement but with its limited resources it is extremely hard for Nepal alone to fund reconstruction programs. US, India and the World Bank have stepped forward to assist Nepal with the rehabilitation programs. With the help of India and the world fraternity, Nepal has promised to be back on its feet. I sincerely wish Nepal regains its status and thrives as India’s most reliable neighbor.

Article - Karthik Kakoor

India Ready to Host US Forces

Govt Plans to Host US Forces in Indian Bases

The  BJP Government plans to allow the US Forces to use Indian military Bases and allows them to carryout Operations against Bakistan and China. The Telegraphic India Reported

The Indian Government agrees to co-operate with the US military to use Indian bases for the coming next eleven years. This includes docking warships in Indian ports and using Air force bases also participating joint operations in overseas countries. This clearly indicates India plans to tackle both China and Bakistan with the support of America.

The Indian defence officials already asked the Americans which benefits we are going to gather if we host your Fighters and Warships. In reply American provide the LSA ( Logistics and Support Agreement ) to mentioned Indian officials. There were several other problems too hide beside the Agreement. if we agree the US plans does it affect our Economy can it shake our Fundamental interests.

The US official said “People have long looked at this relationship (India-US) and seen the fundamentals in place for a really, really close partnership, and yet it’s been a challenge in translating that into outcomes,” Official Named Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser in the White House’s National Security Council.

The Government also asked about these co operations with military officials and Think Tanks specially the Chief's of Navy, Army, and Air Force. the conclusion can come after their suggestion a defence official told. The main strategic goals and plans are Hosting, Docking and Replenish the US warships in selected Ports, allowing the US Fighters Spy Planes and UAV's to carryout missions in neighbor countries and share the Intel with Indian Officials. and carry out operation in other countries with US Soldiers and forces.

The Above clearly indicates Indian long time goal of sacking Bakistani nuclear warheads and take out terrorists like Lakwi, Dawood Ibrahim and Hafeez Syed for the Bakistan safe house.

Israel once comes with a Plan to Destroy or capture Bakistani Nuclear assets and making Bakistan as a Nuclear free state. to Implement the plan Israel asks the Indian Prime Minister to allow the Indian Bases to Host Israeli Fighter Jets and commando forces. but PM declined the Israeli Proposal.

By increasing threats of Bakistani Nuclear warhead may be the Taliban’s or some other Terrorists can Steal the Warheads and carry out strike against the west, Israel and Bakistan. the multinational team set up a Quick Reaction force in Israeli city Tel Aviv. can intercept any kind of illegal activity in Bakistani Nuclear bases

Another one time a Indian special forces get rid to nab Dawood from Islamabad, but the Mission called off at the last minute. and Dawood escaped from Islamabad and hide far west Bakistan.

So now new Indian Government has the Plans to Accomplish the Above two goals. they can ask US support for stop the Bakistan and China for escalating further.

Not only the threat of Bakistan. India also watching increase movements of China. The US can also help to tackle Chinese advancement.

 

Previously the Indian government allowed the American US 2 Spy plane to operate from Arunachal Bases to carryout reconnaissance mission over china. also allowed to setup Monitoring device in Himalaya mountains to watch Chinese Nuclear program.

Currently India have Overseas bases in Tajikistan , The IAF Setup-ed a Airfeild to operate MiG 29 from Farkhoor Airbase to over watch Bakistan

The Army have Bases in Bhutan and Starts Deploying Forces in Afghanistan from 2012

The Navy bases in Madagascor to monitor activities along IOR (Indian Ocean region). and also have a Naval Air base in Oman to over watch Bakistan.