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India to develop its next-generation main battle tank through a government-funded approach, shifting away from strategic partnerships with outside player.India’s defence capabilities are set to receive a significant boost as the country takes the decisive step towards developing its next-generation Main Battle Tank, with "Approval in Principle" now under the Make-I category, according to the
New Delhi: The MiG-29K fighter aircraft undertook a ‘maiden’ night landing on indigenously-built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant.The Navy said that this challenging accomplishment, within three months of the maiden day landing demonstrates the resolve, skill and professionalism of the Indian Navy, Vikrant crew and Naval Pilots.The night landing of the Russian-origin MiG-29K took place on May 24
Washington: United States Defence Secretary Lloyd J Austin-III will embark on a four-nation trip including India from next week, according to the official statement released by the US Department of Defence.The first stop in his four-nation trip is Tokyo where he will meet with Japanese Defense Minister Yasukasu Hamada and other senior leaders and visit US troops stationed in Japan.According to
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was recently in Japan as part of his power-packed schedule to visit a number of countries and hold meetings with major global players.The G7, one of the most influential groupings in the world has consistently accorded India the respect she deserves. Others too have fallen in line to acknowledge its growing diplomatic and economic heft.The world’s newfound
Gaganyaan Mission: Definition, Missions, & FactsGaganyaan, crewed spacecraft being developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The first uncrewed test flight is planned for 2023, with a second uncrewed test flight and the first crewed flight planned for 2024. India would become the fourth nation to launch its own crewed spacecraft, after the Soviet Union (later Russia), the United
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Russian Ambassador Denis Alipov on Thursday evening and has asserted to take the discussions on bilateral cooperation in the India-Russia Intergovernmental Commission for Trade, Economic, Scientific & Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC) framework to a higher level.EAM Jaishankar and Alipov also spoke about the ensuing BRICS Foreign Ministers’
Geneva: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said that the increase in violence and arrests in Pakistan is a matter of "grave concern"."Arrests made under arbitrary laws are equivalent to arbitrary detention. Civilian cases in military courts are a violation of international human rights laws and that immediate, transparent, and impartial investigation of the events
The AI trial saw a wide range of air and ground vehicles tasked with testing target identification capabilities, as the allies cope with what the UK Ministry of Defence called a “rapidly evolving” strategic environment.
The Air Force said months ago it was planning to run flight experiments with the unmanned system, and even though this Ghost Bat was housed not far from an Air Force base, it’s unclear if the testing has begun.
Preface
Operation Inherent Resolve’s Battle of Mosul (October 2016–July 2017) was one of the most pulverizing battles in recent times, and it resulted in the tactical defeat of the Islamic State. Looking to capitalize on it, U.S. Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) commissioned the Mosul Study Group to provide a report. The goal of the report was to glean lessons from the battle and get them back out to the force as quickly as possible. TRADOC and the Mosul Study Group succeeded in this endeavor, publishing What the Battle of Mosul Teaches the Force a mere two months after it had formally concluded.
However, TRADOC and the Mosul Study Group’s haste resulted in missing that Mosul was decisive in relation to the larger campaign to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq. Further, the report failed to articulate the paradoxical role that precision-strike capabilities and precision-guided munitions played. Lastly, the report failed to highlight that it was a block-by-block positional battle of attrition in which steel, sweat and blood saved the day—not new doctrinal concepts, Facebook “likes” or Twitter branding.
In its haste, TRADOC’s report, which reads more like narrative reinforcement than actual lessons from the battle, runs the risk of de-legitimizing future “lessons learned” work. The faulty research methods exemplified here—such as issuing a report on lessons learned a mere two months after a battle concludes and reporting that reinforces existing doctrinal predilections at the expense of challenging and assessing doctrinal utility—need to be addressed. Otherwise, reports like this run the risk of telling the Army what it wants to hear and not what it needs to hear.
I found this to be a brief, informative, and insightful read that pulled no punches in criticizing The Mosul Group’s initial report about the battle. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s important to keep in mind that many of the lessons initially learned will be the wrong ones, and it should be lauded to admit that.
There are interesting perspectives on decisive action, urban warfare, and proxy wars, but what I’d like to highlight is what the authors call the “Precision Paradox” in which precision weapons fail their promise of reducing collateral damage by one shot, one kill. Instead, destruction of buildings were often unsuccessful in killing their targets, allowing them to flee to other buildings that are also eventually destroyed in precision strikes. This also drove enemy combatants to tunnels, further degrading the ability of strikes to complete their objective and amplifying the destruction of the city.
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