Baba Bhanot

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Amazing photo. Army Major General miraculously survives Cheetah 🚁 crash near Leh on May 20 with 2 other officers.

Takes selfie, radiating Army’s irrepressible spirit.

But harsh truth remains—for 2 decades, Army hasn’t got new-gen light 🚁 for high altitude ops. Shameful.

[Chenthil @jcrajan00]

A Pune startup just delivered India's first private-sector directed energy weapon to the Indian Army. Operational. Deployed. Not a prototype.

Olee Space built a laser weapon system with five power tiers from 2 to 50 kilowatts. Sub-3-second engagement time. Compatible with any radar network. And here is the number that should make every defence procurement officer pay attention: sub-1 dollar per shot.

A conventional anti-drone missile costs anywhere from 50,000 to several lakh rupees per unit. A laser weapon costs less than a rupee. In a world where drone swarms are the emerging threat, the economics of directed energy are devastating for the old model.

I have watched India's private defence sector grow from zero credibility to actual hardware delivery in about eight years. BrahMos was built by a joint venture. Tejas was a DRDO project. But a Pune startup building an operational laser weapon and delivering it to the Army is a different category entirely.

The US Army is still procuring its first directed energy systems. India's private sector just deployed one. Not announced. Deployed. This is the kind of story that gets ignored because it comes from a startup nobody has heard of. But defence capability does not care about brand recognition.

[AajTak @aajtak]

"1965 के युद्ध में घायल हुए, अब 2026 में विकलांगता पेंशन पर टैक्स!" युद्ध में दिव्यांग हुए पूर्व सैनिकों ने पेंशन पर कर-छूट की मांग उठाई। उनकी पीड़ा और आवाज़ को सुनें।
#WarVeterans #DisabilityPension #Tax | @gauravcsawant

[KJS DHILLON🇮🇳 @TinyDhillon]

He is from Special Forces of Indian Army @adgpi …

Pride in his eyes for the Nation is unmissable but the helplessness in his tone tells a different story

Jai Hind 🇮🇳

@NHAI_Official @nitin_gadkari please look into this

[K7919300 🇮🇳🇮🇱🇷🇺🇦🇫 @79Kilo_17]

@thethakurforce @myogiadityanath @myogioffice As an Army Officer, I recognise Leadership Skills. His innovative & proactive approach towards tackling crime, the way he lead his team & motivated them during the transformation into a Commissionerate, laid the foundations of what we see today. He's an Officer par excellence.

[K7919300 🇮🇳🇮🇱🇷🇺🇦🇫 @79Kilo_17]

@thethakurforce @myogiadityanath @myogioffice As Commissioner Gautam Buddha Nagar, crime graph was near 0. If such a committed & deserving Officer is not given his due because of internal politics, the loss is of UP & organisation. His leadership & motivational skills & connect with public was exemplary. GBN MISSES HIM.

[K7919300 🇮🇳🇮🇱🇷🇺🇦🇫 @79Kilo_17]

@thethakurforce @myogiadityanath @myogioffice प्रत्यक्ष को प्रमाण की आवश्यकता नहीं होती।जब आलोक सिंह जी नॉयडा में कमिश्नर थे तब हमारी गाड़ी गनपॉइन्ट पर लूट ली गयी थी। मात्र 24 घंटे में गाड़ी बरामदगी हुई और तीनों बदमाश भी मुठभेड़ के बाद जेल गये। ऐसे कर्मवीर एवं कर्तव्यनिष्ठ अधिकारी अतुलनीय हैं।

[Krishna Rao, K 🇮🇳 @krishnaraobsf]

Are We Sleepwalking Into a Civil-Military Crisis?

In recent years, a quiet but disquieting tension has begun to shadow India’s civil-military landscape. The Indian Armed Forces, long regarded as an apolitical, professional institution, are increasingly finding themselves drawn into political, ideological, and even communal narratives. Simultaneously, core institutional concerns of soldiers, sailors, and airmen - Non-Functional Upgradation (NFU), stalled promotions, pension anxieties, disability benefits, lateral absorption, and post-service uncertainty - remain unresolved or dismissed.
This divergence between political appropriation and institutional neglect raises a provocative question: Are we unknowingly paving the road toward a military rupture - perhaps not a coup, but something more complex, and potentially more dangerous?

The Politicization Paradox

Across public events, political campaigns, and media rhetoric, the Armed Forces have become a central motif of nationalism. Surgical strikes, airstrikes, uniformed imagery, and even religious narratives are now frequently leveraged to consolidate political capital. In a democracy, civilian governments are entitled to celebrate military achievements, but there is a crucial difference between honouring the Forces and using them as political currency.

The danger lies not in rhetoric alone, but in the slow erosion of the Forces’ institutional autonomy. Senior military leadership being drawn into public political discourse, selective amplification of militaristic narratives, and the blending of national security with majoritarian sentiment risk recasting the military’s identity from a constitutional instrument to a political symbol.

For a force built on neutrality, this is a tectonic shift.

Meanwhile, Inside the Barracks

While the Armed Forces are projected as the nation’s pride, their personnel are simultaneously battling unresolved grievances:
- NFU denial to officers, even as other elite services enjoy it.
- Promotional stagnation due to structural bottlenecks.
- Pension restructuring controversies, especially post-OROP.
- Diminished career security, with shorter tenures and limited lateral absorption.
- Rising operational stress, suicides, and mental health concerns.

The troubling message being received by many servicemen and veterans is this: your image matters more than your welfare.
No professional force, however disciplined, is immune to the cumulative impact of systemic neglect.

Could India Face a Military Coup?

Let’s be clear. A coup in India remains extraordinarily unlikely. The institutional, cultural, and constitutional DNA of the Indian military is deeply anti-political. Its chain of command, recruitment diversity, federal structure, and historical ethos, all point firmly away from the seizure of power.

Unlike many nations that have suffered coups, India possesses:
- Strong electoral legitimacy
- A robust civilian bureaucracy
- Diffused military command structures
- Constitutional safeguards
- A deeply ingrained culture of military restraint

The Indian military has never attempted to challenge civilian supremacy - not even during the Emergency, not during political turmoil of the 1990s, not during the Kargil War, and not amid repeated insurgencies. That legacy cannot be dismissed.
So no, a classic coup is not the scenario India should fear.

The Real Risk: A Slow Civil-Military Fracture

What is far more plausible, and far more dangerous, is a creeping institutional estrangement. This could manifest in several ways:
- Erosion of Morale and Motivation: When symbolism replaces welfare, loyalty becomes brittle.
- Politically Aligned Factions: Even subtle ideological segmentation within the Forces would be corrosive.
- Veterans as Political Weapons: Veterans’ organizations could drift into partisan activism, reshaping public sentiment.
- Operational Hesitancy: A force that feels exploited may hesitate, question intent, or lose trust.
- Institutional Pushback: Not a coup, but a hardened, transactional civil-military relationship lacking mutual respect.
- Military destabilization today is rarely about tanks rolling into the capital. It’s about silence, cynicism, and disengagement.

A Coup Is Dramatic. Decay Is Quiet

The most dangerous outcome is not seizure of power, but a hollowing out of military professionalism. A force that is politicized at the top and disillusioned at the bottom risks losing the very quality that made it exceptional: unity of purpose.

Nations don’t crumble because armies revolt. They crumble because armies lose faith.

The Path Forward

Three urgent corrections are essential:
- Depoliticize the Uniform: The military must remain a constitutional tool, never a campaign instrument or cultural symbol.
- Address Institutional Welfare, Not Optics: Resolve NFU, promotions, pensions, and mental health with seriousness, not slogans.
- Reinforce Civil-Military Trust: Open dialogue, parliamentary oversight, and transparent grievance mechanisms are non-negotiable.

A strong military is not built on applause. It is built on dignity, respect, and justice.

The Final Question

India stands at a fork in the road. One path leads to a mature, modern civil-military equilibrium. The other leads to a brittle nation where the Forces feel used, unheard, and ideologically fragmented.

We are not headed toward a coup.

But if we continue on the current trajectory, we may be headed toward something subtler, slower, and ultimately more destabilizing, a future where the Armed Forces are politically glorified, institutionally neglected, and emotionally alienated.
And history shows: that is how nations sleepwalk into crises they never saw coming.

#JaiHind

(The views expressed above are the author's own as a former BSF officer who commanded operational units, crafted intelligence.)

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

INDIA ARE THE WORLD CHAMPIONS 🏆🥹

- Our Women's Team lifts Blind World Cup 2025!

[Desert Scorpion🦂🇮🇳 @TigerCharlii]

"If I Die in a War Zone,
box me up and send me Home.

Put my Medals on my Chest,
Tell my Mom I did my Best."

#IndianArmy 🇮🇳

[Celina Jaitly @CelinaJaitly]

From the Battlefield to a Cell, The Unspoken Pain of an Indian Soldier, 444 Days Without My Brother!

It’s been 1 year, 2 months, 17 days, 443 days in total, 10,632 hours, 637,920 minutes… since my brother, Major Vikrant Kumar Jaitly, was taken.
Since Maj Vikrant was 1st abducted, held incommunicado for eight long months, then kept in detention somewhere in the Middle East, my life has been a countdown of fear, hope & unbearable silence.
I am waiting to hear his voice, I am waiting to see his face, I dread what they have done to him.
I dread it because only I know who he was when he was whole, & I dread it because I know what he managed to communicate in that one final call…
A call made to the only number he could still remember.
A call carrying more pain than words.
A call carrying more truth than the world is ready to face.
I have more questions than answers, so much terror in every second that passes.
My brother suffers from many injuries from his line of duty.
He has given his youth, his strength, his mind, his life to Bharat.
He has lived & bled for the flag.
As Bharat rises as a global force, our soldiers & veterans are becoming easy targets abroad.
This is not just personal anymore, this pattern of picking up our soldiers & veterans abroad… is this now jeopardising our own National Security instead?
We must ask this question. We must demand answers. We must not turn away.
We need the same, decisive action that was taken in Qatar, I am putting my faith, my life & my hope in our government ..That they will safely bring their soldier back.
The same action that brought home our Naval veterans.
Our soldier deserves no less. No Indian soldier deserves less.
Bring our soldier back.
Do not let this momentum die.
Do not let a man who gave everything to this nation be abandoned in silence.
We must not forget our veterans, we must not let this happen to them, not now, not ever.
As my late father, Col VK Jaitly (SM), always said, “If you want to honour a soldier, be an Indian worth dying for.”
BHAI I HAVE LOST EVERYTHING FINDING YOU
I will NOT stop, I will NOT give up till he is back to the soil of his Bharat, the country he gave up all for!!
Kalika Mata Ki Jai
#majvikrantjaitly #celinajaitly #IndianArmy #india #Bharat #parasf

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Congratulations to Indian Blind Women’s Cricket Team for creating history by winning the inaugural Blind Women’s T20 World Cup! More commendable is the fact that they stayed unbeaten in the series. This is indeed a historic sporting achievement, a shining example of hardwork, team work and determination. Each player is a champion! My best wishes to the team for their future endeavours. This feat will inspire generations to come.

[IndiaSportsHub @IndiaSportsHub]

🇮🇳 TEAM INDIA DOMINATE THE WORLD! 🔥

What a stunning run by the Indian Women’s Kabaddi Team at the Women’s Kabaddi World Cup 2025!

Result Summary:
✅ 65–20 vs Thailand
✅ 43–18 vs Bangladesh
✅ 63–22 vs Germany
✅ 51–16 vs Uganda

✅ 33–21 vs Iran

✅ 35–28 vs Chinese Taipei (FINAL)

Unbeaten. Unstoppable. Unmatched. 💙💪
The champions delivered a flawless campaign and brought the World Cup home once again! 🏆🇮🇳

Proud of our women who continue to define excellence in Kabaddi. 🌟

[SPORTS ARENA🇮🇳 @SportsArena1234]

💥💥💥💥💥

TEAM INDIA ARE WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS 🏆🇮🇳

India Women Kabaddi Team beat Chinese Taipei 🇹🇼 35-28 in the WC final to clinch & defend the Kabaddi World Cup Title 🏆

Superlative tournament for our girls - unbeaten

Watch👇👇
Video courtesy: T Sports YT

💥💥💥💥💥

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Our phenomenal athletes delivered an extraordinary, record-breaking performance at the World Boxing Cup Finals 2025! They brought home an unprecedented 20 medals including 9 Golds. This is due to the resolve and determination of our boxers. Congratulations to them. Best wishes for the endeavours ahead.

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

🚨 THIS IS PRETTY HUGE NEWS FOLKS 💥

WORLD CUP WINNING MOMENTS FOR INDIA 🏆

Indian Women's Team defeated Chinese Taipei 35-28 in the Finals of Kabaddi World Cup 2025!

Our Girls successfully defends the Trophy 🇮🇳💙

[SpearCorps.IndianArmy @Spearcorps]

The successful drop of the Microfly Guided Precision Aerial Delivery System was executed from an AN-32 aircraft in the Mechuka Valley, #ArunachalPradesh. Conducted jointly by #SpearCorps and the #IndianAirForce, the mission marks a significant leap in precision aerial delivery capabilities in the Eastern sector, further strengthening inter-services synergy and operational effectiveness.

Microfly Guided Precision Aerial Delivery (GPAD) System को AN-32 विमान से Mechuka घाटी, #ArunachalPradesh में सफलतापूर्वक ड्रॉप किया गया। यह कार्रवाई #SpearCorps और #IndianAirForce के संयुक्त प्रयासों से हुई, जो पूर्वी सेक्टर में सटीक हवाई आपूर्ति क्षमता बढ़ाने और सेवाओं के बीच तालमेल मजबूत करने की दिशा में एक बड़ा कदम है।

#IndianArmy #EasternCommand #InterServiceSynergy #AerialDelivery #PrecisionDrop #AN32 #Mechuka #NorthEast #IndianAirForce

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[Flt Lt Anoop Verma (Retd.) 🇮🇳 @FltLtAnoopVerma]

No of Non Combat Crashes of Various Fighter Jets

1. US F 35 - 12
2. US F 22 - 07
3. US F 16 - 650
4. Russian MIG 21 - 1200
5. Russian MIG 23 - 300
6. Chinese J 15 - 6
7. French Rafale - 4
8. Eurofighter Typhoon - 24
9. British Jaguar - 42
10. Indian Tejas - 02

And we start blaming our Make In India Tejas ?

Though it’s just beginning but India has made a grand entry into fighter club where engines are yet to be made indigenously

Negative Left Cabal won’t be able to stall Indian initiatives taken in the last one decade

India growth story will continue

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

SACHIN IS WORLD CUP CHAMPION 🏆💪

India's Sachin Siwach stunned Paris Olympics Silver Medallist Munarbek Uulu in Men's 60kg Final!

8th Gold Medal for India at World Cup Final 🏅

HUGE WIN FOR THE SACHIN, WELL DONE! 🇮🇳💙

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

“All gave some. Some gave all.”

Inspector Ashish Sharma, one of the finest officers of Madhya Pradesh’s elite anti-Maoist Hawk Force, fell in the forests of Rajnandgaon while fighting Maoists.

A two-time gallantry award winner, he was the man the police sent when the job was impossibly difficult. A farmer’s son from Narsinghpur, he was just two months away from his wedding, as per Navbharat Times.

Sharing this because the heroism and sacrifices of our security forces should dominate media and social media. But sadly, we’ve normalised the opposite. The moment a terrorist is neutralised, the narrative instantly shifts to emotional sob stories about their “circumstances,” while real heroes like Ashish Sharma barely get a fraction of that attention.

Om Shanti.