Wednesday, February 27, 2019

What is your take away from the clash between India and Pakistan?


What is your take away from the clash between India and Pakistan?

My early view is that their air arms are facing the same difficulty that we saw in the fighting between Russia/Ukraine and the various rebel factions.  In other words air power was tried early, got bloodied and now they seem to be pulling them back a bit.

Now its a ground fight.  Lots of artillery, a few clashes between infantry units and maybe some Special Ops running around.

Kinda makes you wonder if all the theorists about how the future fight got it all so crooked.

Makes me wonder if aviation (even though both sides were using older aircraft...especially India) is now too valuable to risk in a shooting war.

That's telling.  That should give ground commanders pause.

I've always thought that aviation promised more than it could ever deliver and at least for the time being that seems to be being proven yet again.

But back on task.  What do you guys think?

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