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Subject: If China attacks India
coolboyjay    1/24/2005 8:37:46 AM
What do u think? Would the Indian army be able to hold off the chinese in a conventional war? Who do u think would be on the Chinese and indian "sides"?
 
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ArrowGuns    Alexis: BeyonDeath got fired by SysOps!   1/28/2005 7:59:29 AM
BeyonDeath got fired by SysOps! Ans so will the moron HanWuDi. Cheers..
 
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HanWuDi    RE:Alexis: BeyonDeath got fired by SysOps!   1/28/2005 8:19:03 AM
Interesting demonstration of censorship if that happened.
 
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Godofgamblers    PeregrinePike   1/30/2005 8:33:46 PM
so do you think it's reasonable to say that india's aggression is directed internally, because of its culture/religion which focuses on self-improvement, while some other countries' aggression is directed externally because their culture is based on "coverting" or "crusades" etc?
 
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Godofgamblers    india, disorganization ... or ... strength?   1/30/2005 8:40:02 PM
some comments have been made about india's 'disorganization' or 'ethnic confusion', but isn't this a strength as well? they have different cultures and ethnic groups to draw upon for different situations. the boys from bangalore for tech stuff, the gujaratis for business, i even heard there is a french speaking enclave (is this true?). for combat, aren't the sikhs the best? just point them toward an enemy and tell them it's twelve o'clock. the chinese are more uniform. they have order but not diversity. it will be interesting to see which country outstrips the other in the next twenty years. my money is on the chinese; not necessarily because of china proper, but because of the overseas chinese and the incredible solidarity of the chinese people. there's no use losing tempers over discussions of superiority because a war will not happen in our lifetimes. it is interesting to compare the two countries though since they have similar population levels and are so close geographically yet so different culturally.
 
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coolboyjay    RE:HanWuDi   1/31/2005 6:59:42 AM
>>There's a huge difference between maintaining a high altitude military base and training one's troops for mountain warfare.<<< Wear Pink glasses and everything would appear pink!!! What else can I say!!
 
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PeregrinePike    RE:india, disorganization ... or ... strength?   1/31/2005 10:53:06 AM
In the new world of ideas, yeah, disorganization is a soft strength... I know this is really going to inflame most Chinese, but most of what China is is immediately recognized for have their roots in India. Kung Fu, Buddhism, Mandarin equal-field system (Mandarin --> Skt. mantrin not Portuguese for ban, though Portuguese is closer to Sanskrit than Chinese) etc. But the twist is that none of these survived to a significant extent in India. That is we may bring forth losts of good stuff, but we will never be able to implement it widely, where as if a Chinese comes up with a bad idea it is instantaneouly implemented much to the determinent of the people. Eg. Maoism, Boxer and Tiping Rebellion with a combined death toll of 100 million, something that can never happenin India because we will fragment and fight. So sort of guerillas vs. gorillas. ;-)
 
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coolboyjay    RE:HanWuDi   1/31/2005 1:23:09 PM
>>>Think about it...the U.S doesn't maintain high altitude bases, a small portion of their troops train very hard in mountainous warfare, that's one of the reasons why they were able to take over the entire nation of Afghanistan with less than a dozen casualties. India on the other suffered 500+ KIA and 1000+ total casualties to capture a single mountain bunker network on it's own territory.<<< Either, u have an IQ of a chimp or u did not follow the afghan war closely! Choose to accept one of them. Most of the destruction in afghan was done by air power and presice weaponry and not by land forces! Now coming to mountain warfare, did u read about the para commandos in the link I provided to u? If u have, u would not say so! Then again, coming to mountain warfare, India maintains a huge Ghurkha Regiment, which again specializes in mountain warfare! If u understand what kind of political scenarios were going on before the "kargil" episode ( there was a major strenghtening of ties going on b/w vajpayee and Nawab Sharief) then u would undertand why Indian troops withdrew from the posts in the winter only to shown that pakis are not to be trusted! But I believe that either u have no intention of understanding the scenario or the scenario is beyond your comprehension ( in simpler words: "too much for ur pea brain") Anyway, I believe, Indians are much better at mountain warfare than the Chinese. End of point!!!
 
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PacEMakeR    RE:HanWuDi - CoolBoyJay   1/31/2005 3:13:49 PM
<< India maintains a huge Ghurkha Regiment >> Actually, India maintains 7 Gurkhs regiments, and they are equally effective in mountain and plain warfare.
 
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lennard    pathetic   1/31/2005 3:30:42 PM
I have been reading ALL the comments of this thread, and what a complete waste of time it was! Some silly boys talking about war as if it were a childrens game. Please, no more. I have no direct experience with war, but I have been close with the victims of a few off them. Although I realise the value of a strong army, and am personally interested in weapons and warfare, the stupidity of people going to war sickens me more with the day. Fact is, China and India are potential superpowers that could contribute immensely to the benefit of mankind. Thankfully more and more people in both countries realise that and are working towards a mutually beneficiary relationship in which stories of war are left for some small boys.
 
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seatofpants    RE:pathetic   2/1/2005 1:18:24 AM
lennard, So sorry to have wasted your valuable time with our postings. We were just writing about the "hypothetical" scenario of China attacking India, I don't believe that anyone was seriously considering that this "hypothetical" war was going to happen soon or at all. I'm sure that those "potential superpowers" as you stated, will always and forever, strive for the betterment of mankind, peace on earth and goodwill towards all men. (and ladies) Thanks for setting us straight about discussing war on a website devoted to the military arts and warfare in general. We are pathetic little boys, but at least we're on the right website. You, on the otherhand, should check out think that's the website for your tastes.
 
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