I hate war, being a pacifist but..

I do hate all forms of violence, especially war, and also unprovoked invasion and occupation of any country. Those who read my blog, Jacob's Politics, already know that I am extremely passionate about that subject. My intention is not to bring that topic over to this blog.

Despite that, I would like to say here that I am for readiness of any country's army, remembering the days when Indian Defence Minister V. Krishna Menon was using the Indian Army facilities to make Expresso Machines and the total unpreparedness of the Indian Army when China attacked India in 1962.

So I was quite heartened to read this article in Christain Sience Monitor

Indian Air Force, in war games, gives US a run
Foreign fighter jets performed well against F-16s in recent exercises.
By Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

"Since the cold war, there has been the general assumption that India is a third-world country with Soviet technology, and wherever the Soviet-supported equipment went, it didn't perform well," says Jasjit Singh, a retired air commodore and now director of the Center for Air Power Studies in New Delhi. "That myth has been blown out by the results" of these air exercises.

This certainly gives a different picture than has been presented around the world that India has a third rate defence system. India may not be of the preparedness as China, which started a whole totally unreported military preparedness and culture to handle any any Western provocation, which is possible in secrecy in a non-democratic country.

India certainly seems to have air preparedness. Possibly its naval preparedness is also of the same level.

Land armies are not much use in today's warfare types, except border defence, but I am sure that if the Indian military is thinking straight, it would be prepared to fight a long long underground struggle on behalf of the people of India, as is being done in Iraq presently.

Knowing the corruption prevalent in the Defence Administration, which was so exposed by the Tehelka Report - Operation West End, I certainly hope that ALL countries are armed and ready to fight against the Bush / Blair Criminal Cabal expanionist plans.