With a long history of conflict, it seems the relations with
Pakistan (Over Kashmir) of late is "
a walk in the park" compared to what's currently going on between
India and
China where blood has already been shed earlier this month. Will this flare up into a small war such as happened in
1964, I believe it's hard to say, but at the same time plausible. From "
Broadsword" a series of articles are provided. I hope you'll note the "
escalation" from May compared to June in the number of them written. Also for the reader, I posted about 2 or 3 articles on armored exercises going on in
Tibet by the Chinese.
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...er-ladakh.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...ne-thrice.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...unterpart.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...usion-can.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...rusion-by.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...se-refuse.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...ne-claims.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...n-cooling.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...llery-and.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...-soldiers.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...apable-of.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...in-ladakh.html
https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020...hal-blows.html
The last from today, I believe that's
14 articles in a month. This bears some watching as we also prepare to step up Naval Operations in the South China Sea region and surrounding area ourselves.
Though plenty above for a developer, my concern is focused on the
potential real world implications of all this activity in the region.
Older articles and some newer ones:
Belgium: Rearming and expanding with change in doctrine.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/marc...ment_plan.html
https://www.armyrecognition.com/nove...ne_change.html
China: As discussed above.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/june...exercises.html
NATO: Deploying to the East and a continuance of outside events influencing Defense Budgets.
Norway looking into new tanks, currently still ongoing.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/marc...st_europe.html
https://www.army-technology.com/feat...ook-like-2018/
https://www.armyrecognition.com/marc...n_project.html
Romania: Increasing Defense Budget through 2023 on 5 year plan.
https://www.army-technology.com/news...ch-7-6bn-2023/
Russia: Defense hardware delivery day 2019!
https://www.armyrecognition.com/anal..._day_2019.html
UPDATED EDIT/SOUTH AFRICA: Major multi-year projects. What's missing (
And needed.) is any mention to improving or replacing their
MBT's. With
ABRAMS and more recently the
VT-4 being present in Africa,
South Africa's tanks are going to
fall behind if the trend continues with the other African countries in updating their own military capabilities.
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/feature...nd-programmes/
Sweden: Rearming to counter Russian threat.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/may_..._rearming.html
That picture clearly shows what I've been talking about concerning the additional "
top armor" they had KMW add on their
new built custom
LEOPARD tanks.
Ukraine: The Ukraine takes a "
big step" with NATO.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/june...s_partner.html
USA: Well could we be that "
stupid" again!?! I hope not, but, then again
nothing would surprise me at this point.
https://www.defence24.com/gen-hodges...ft-for-kremlin
Well that completely cleaned out that folder!! I wish that could happen to a couple of others, however, I'm an "optimistic realist"
so that'll never happen!!
Regards,
Pat
