India had offered troops when the operations had begun, but this was not taken on so as to not upset the Pakistanis, from whom a greater cooperation was required since the terrorists were launching from the safety and bases in Pakistan.
The Indo Tibetan Border Police are para military personnel. They are being sent to guard the General Reserve Engineer Force (India) that is building the Highway in Afghanistan.
Indians gone now?
The Indian contractors building the highway have finished, so have the Indian protectors left? Or is there another contract? I note a Chinese contractor is present somewhere and with US Army protection.
davidbfpo
India & Russia share concerns on Afghanistan
This the nearest hospitable place for this report.
Apparently Prime Minister Putin this week in a statement after a new arms deal with India commented that Russia shares India's concerns over the Taliban in Afghanistan.
After a search I did find this on an arms & nuclear power deal: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8561365.stm and a suggestion that they did share concerns: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/i...ow/5673201.cms
How the Afghan state will react to such 'shared concerns' is not clear, especially as the Pakistani reaction maybe to label this as strategic encirclement and exert their own response. I'm puzzled that Russia even considers the Afghan peoples will accept their help - assuming 'concern' becomes a reality.
davidbfpo
India's role in Afghanistan
Cross reference added as this subject IMHO deserves it, to a SWJ Blog notice:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=10787
davidbfpo
some interesting material on an"interesting" situation...
Not sure what the fallout from this will be geopolitically (Indo-Pak relations may worsen with Pakistan given a pretext, if it needed one, of further destabilisation in India although from India's persepctive might actually be an attempt to payback Pakistan by playing in a territory considered by Pakistani strategists as affording them strategic depth)...but given our travails I suppose the more the merrier!
According to India & Afghanistan: Charting the Future
India's reasons for intervention/participation are fourfold;
1. Denying the ISI strategic depth to train terrorists to attack India;
2. breaking the narco-terrosim nexus; &
3. secure Afghanistan as a trade/resource hub regarding hydro-carbons; &
4. tapping Afghanistans oil potential (?)
Sounds like classical geopolitical encirclement to me.
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And the Pakistani take...Afghanistan-Evolving an Indo-Pak Strategy: Perspectives from Pakistan
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The CSIS's take India and Pakistan in Afghanistan: Hostile Sport
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A paper outlining India's strategy with regards for foriegn aid, Emerging Donors in International Development Assistance: The India Case, which also ties India's assistance to Afghanistan as an attempt to tie them into a pro-India sphere of influence thus tacitly breaking Afghanistan's tie to Pakistan (from whom it gets nothing worth writing home about.)
&, finally,
A useful backgrounder from the Council on Foreign Relations, India-Afghanistan Relations
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As a background info
The “Strategic Partnership” Between India and Iran
http://www.iranwatch.org/privateview...rship-0404.pdf
AFGHANISTAN: INDIA'S CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR "THE DAY AFTER"
Strategic objectivity would suggest that India's preference should be for a sustained United States embedment in Afghanistan till such time political democracy takes roots and the Afghan National Army is built upto at least 500,000 strong to take charge of Afghanistan’s security.
Strategic realism would also suggest that India recognize that American commitment to Afghanistan’s stability is dependent on the vagaries of compulsions of United States domestic politics......
United States exit from Afghanistan is not a question of “if” but is a question of “when” Pakistan as the “regional spoiler state” of South Asia and a “proven destabilizer of Afghanistan” could boil over the situation in Afghanistan to contrive an American exit from Afghanistan.
India has wrongly shied away from a military commitment in Afghanistan for two major reasons. The first was the American reluctance to permit Indian military involvement in Afghanistan out of deference to Pakistan Army sensitivities. The second reason was the political and strategic timidity of India's political leadership who have yet to recognize that being a big power would involve shouldering military responsibilities to reorder in India's favor the security environment in South Asia.....http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5C...paper3576.htmlThis Paper intends to briefly examine the following related aspects to offer some recommendations for India's contingency planning on Afghanistan:
Strategic Realties Which Should Prod India's Contingency Planning.
India's Contingency Planning: The Political Initiatives Recommended.
India's Contingency Planning: The Strategic Steps Recommended.
India's Military Contingency Plans for Afghanistan on "The Day After".
Since this article was published in 2004, it's worth asking whether any of the predictions in it have actually come true, and to what extent. Rhetoric and speculation aside, what is the actual extent of Indian-Iranian involvement today, and what impact does it have on the region?Originally Posted by Ray
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