{"id":19471,"date":"2026-06-12T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=19471"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:41:21","slug":"19471","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=19471","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s War Strategy : Danger To India From An Adventurist War By Pakistan&#8217;s Generals : Past Surprises Can Not Be Ignored ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s War Strategy : Danger To India From An Adventurist War By Pakistan&#8217;s Generals : Past Surprises Can Not Be Ignored .<\/p>\n<p>Rajiv Upadhyay <a href=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RKU-263x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8461\" src=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RKU-263x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RKU-263x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RKU-263x300-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RKU-263x300-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking a cue from Iran , Abdul Basit , a former Pakistan Ambassador to India, said in a TV interview that in any next war we will first drop few bombs on Delhi and Mumbai irrespective of what happens later .This may look to be a suicide war strategy for Pakistan but Iran&#8217;s success in creating panic by attacking all neighbouring countries particularly UAE, has given incentive to many defence planners in Pakistan to adopt an &#8216;adventurist first all out attack\u00a0 \u00a0 and we will face whatever be the consequences &#8216; type maxim .<\/p>\n<p>Late General Pervez Musharraf ,in an interview had said that after a few months of Indian army being kept at border in ready to attack mode after Parliament attack , he said &#8216;I ordered Airforce to be ready to destroy Mumbai irrespective of fall outs &#8216;. This is not a wild card statement but &#8216; Bold Surprise &#8216; represents the core thinking in Pakistan&#8217;s\u00a0 military hierarchy .<\/p>\n<p>Look at 1999 Kargil operation by a defiant military chief . We just recovered our territory back and call it Shaurya Diwas !\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Parliament Attack of 2001 was a natural corollary of our pussy footing Kargil .\u00a0 Could we even imagine a daring plan to take as hostage, the\u00a0 Prime Minister in Indian Parliament . Let us be generous and give gold medal in surprise attack to LET . But Afzal Guru was executed in 2013 due to repeated judicial intervention . So came another bigger surprise of\u00a0 Mumbai attack of 2008 . Could we ever imagine it ? Just ten armed gunmen arriving in a boat from Karachi and taking the entire Indian establishment hostage ! Were they or their military bosses worried about consequences ? No ! . So Pathankot &amp; Pulwama were bound to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Our changed mindset was not fully understood in Uri but after Pulwama ,our attack on Balakot removed all doubts about new India. .<\/p>\n<p>It is important to examine that after Balakot, why did Pakistan staged the\u00a0 Pahalgam attack which surely would not have gone without massive retaliation by India ?<\/p>\n<p>General Munir was encouraged by Pakistan&#8217;s success in cutting off\u00a0 communication with Abhinandan&#8217;s plane which lead to his capture and a great face saving for Pakistan after Balakot fiasco. Also possibly some of our bombs missed the target while bulk were successful . Our Babus stranglehold on defence procurement is a well known secret Pakistan can always rely on .<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan got hooked to intoxication due to its superior technology .<\/p>\n<p>General Munir, like his predecessors, underestimated the Indian resolve . Some insider must have leaked that we were expecting 150 kms range of PL- 15 missiles instead of actual 200 kms . Even our Rafales were not equipped to defend against PL 15 missiles working without radar , from computer link sent by distant AWACS which were fed by Chinese HQ 9 missiles defence . Also it counted heavily on Turkey&#8217;s Bayraktar drone&#8217;s ability to destroy our S 400 defences .<\/p>\n<p>Luckily we had Brahmos in reserve and our leadership had will to teach Pakistan a good lesson even with great risk and we destroyed their air defence completely . Further war was not necessary and would have elicited desperate response from Pakistan . General Munir became a Field Marshal yet with shared power not a full dictator loke Zia or Musharraf .<\/p>\n<p>We must understand that Pakistan army&#8217;s leadership\u00a0 is like a psychotic gambler . In spite of losing heavily every time it still plays the next hand hoping to win this time !<\/p>\n<p>If it gets another new decisive\u00a0 technology before India, next Munir will again attack India to seek eternal glory . Also this time following Iranian strategy it may involve attack our weak allies like Sri Lanka , Mauritius , Oman etc . It will attack Jamnagar refinery. NARORA\u00a0 as the easiest target that can cripple our economy and seek a peace deal with say giving half the Ravi water in addition to three rivers and reversing Kashmir status .<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively it may use Islamists of Bangladesh with a gifted dirty bomb and a missile .<\/p>\n<p>West loves Pakistan for its willing transactionalism for a relatively low cost. China will neutralise Russia . America will push India\u00a0 into accepting a Ceasefire to prevent a nuclear war . If we lose the initiative in war we will be alone to face consequences !<\/p>\n<p>So in the changed dynamics we have to shed our false over confidence and counter Pakistan&#8217;s repeated success in giving us surprises . Also the cost of mis adventurism\u00a0 has to be sunk in the mind of the notional civilian leadership and media there. But population&#8217;s mood in Pakistan is bellicose due to its success in getting mediators role . If hopeful of victory, it will condone or support another Pulwama .<\/p>\n<p>India needs to realistically evaluate the big Pakistani threat particularly after it gets J 35 and PL -16 or higher missiles and Turkish drones and a nuclear submarine .<\/p>\n<p>We must double our defence procurement budget and remove Babus and financial return based approach to be effective .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s War Strategy : Danger To India From An Adventurist War By Pakistan&#8217;s Generals :&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=19471\">more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-2","category-economy","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19474,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19471\/revisions\/19474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}