Did you notice.
America established nine military bases in the Middle East, with agreements to provide military protection to these countries in the event of an external attack.
Bahrain : U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters
Qatar : Al Udeid Air Base.
Kuwait : several major Army installations.
UAE : Al Dhafra Air Base and naval access facilities
Saudi Arabia : Prince Sultan Air Base and other facilities.
Jordan : multiple U.S. military locations.
Iraq : several bases, airfields.
Syria : several smaller U.S. military positions
Oman : access to military facilities and ports.
But the US could not protect a single country listed above from the missiles of Iran, as they pounded country after country.
India on the other hand, resisted American dominance and refused to simply align itself with America's policies, even when faced with heavy tariffs and criticism during Operation Sindoor as opposed to Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Instead, India focused on developing and manufacturing its own defence systems and defence capabilities. (Make in India).
The result today is that countries such as Vietnam, UAE,Chile,Brazil Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Saudi Arabia & Egypt are increasingly looking to India for defence equipment and military platforms.
And even "atami taaqat" nations think a hundred times before provoking India.
You may ridicule mock and denigrate PM Modi for his political science degree, for his desi accent of English or for his hugs, but it is an established fact that he made India stronger economically militarily and Internationally.
That is what a capable Prime Minister does.
In 1987 America refused to sell India a supercomputer.
It then offered a weaker model instead, with conditions. Civilian use only. No technology transfer. No re-export. And an American official would be posted in India to monitor how the machine was used.
India said no, and handed the job to a man who had never seen a supercomputer in his life.
His name is Vijay Bhatkar.
He was born on 11th October 1946 in Muramba, a village in Akola district in Maharashtra. He started school directly in class 4. He took his engineering degree at Nagpur, a master's at Baroda and a doctorate at IIT Delhi.
India had wanted the machine for a very ordinary reason. Weather forecasting, which for a country of farmers is not a luxury. The Indian Institute of Science wanted one for research.
The Americans classed supercomputers as dual use technology, meaning it could also help a nuclear or missile programme. So the export was blocked.
In March 1988 the government set up the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in Pune, and made Bhatkar its founder and executive director.
Before that, the Prime Minister asked him 3 questions.
Can we do it. Bhatkar said he had never seen a supercomputer, only a photograph of the Cray, and that yes, they could.
How long will it take. He said less time than it would take to keep trying to import one.
How much will it cost. He said the entire effort, including building the institution, would cost less than buying the Cray.
He was given about 30 crore rupees and 3 years.
The start was not glamorous. He has said that for the first 6 months he could not recruit a single person, including his own secretary, because of bureaucratic delays.
His team took a different route from the Americans. Instead of building 1 enormous processor, they linked many ordinary processors together to work in parallel, using parts that could be bought off the shelf.
The prototype was ready in 1990. They called it Param, which in Sanskrit means supreme.
Then came the part he did not expect. Nobody believed it was a supercomputer. It did not look like a Cray. He has said even his own computer science professors doubted it.
So he took it abroad, to a major international supercomputing conference, and had it demonstrated and benchmarked in public. It was formally recognised there as a supercomputer.
In 1991 they completed PARAM 8000.
An American newspaper carried the story under a headline that has stayed famous in India. Denied supercomputer, angry India does it.
Versions of the machine were later exported to Germany, the United Kingdom and Russia. India went from being refused the technology to selling it.
He has one line he repeats.
Great nations are not built on borrowed technology.
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@VarierSangitha It’s high time we provide far superior gear to these men in firing line. I don’t want more role models that keep getting killed by terrorists.
Value the life so much that you don’t have to celebrate their bravery in killing some rented jehadis.
@VarierSangitha Jai Hind, Jai Hind ki Sena.
Lt.Navdeep and soldiers like him are the reason that we sleep peacefully at night and roam freely on the streets.
Someone is paying the price at the border for the life that am living.
I have seen Gods, they reside in the Indian Army camps
🇮🇳 नागरिक बहुत हो गया, धैर्य की परीक्षा मत लो। 🇮🇳 सशस्त्र बलों के कर्मियों और उनके परिवारों का सम्मान करना सीखो,क्योंकि सशस्त्र बलों के जवान अपनी जान की कुर्बानी देते हैं ताकि हम बाकी लोग अपने घरों में शांति से रह सकें।
🕉️🙏✌️🤝🫡जय🇮🇳हिंद🇮🇳🫡वंदे🇮🇳 मातरम
This is your own country
This is your own Army
If you can’t respect your soldiers, atleast don’t shout on them
Be a citizen worth dying for!
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
@republic 👌👍 Good Wish & Hope People Oppose & Boycott CJP Throughout India. Central Gov't Agencies Needs To Thoroughly Probe The Source Of Funds & The Support Both Material & Manpower CJP Is Getting Get To The Bottom & Nip The Anti Social & Anti National Elements Supporting It
भारतीय सेना, भारतीय नौसेना, भारतीय वायुसेना, सभी भारतीय अर्धसैनिक बलों और उनके सभी कर्मियों और अधिकारियों को सलाम। ईश्वर हमारे सशस्त्र बलों के कर्मियों और उनके परिवारों को आशीर्वाद दे। हमें उन पर गर्व है और हम उनका समर्थन करते हैं।
On September 18, 2016, terrorists from across the border killed 19 soldiers in Uri. As soon as this news reached Delhi, Prime Minister Modi convened a meeting in the 'War Room' with officials from the security establishment, including Mr. Doval.
During that meeting, the Indian leadership took two decisions. First, the Indian Army would take the fight into enemy territory and deliver a ruthless response to the Uri attack.
Second, Prime Minister Modi and other ministers would maintain a familiar facade—reinforcing the perception of Indian inaction—until that ruthless response was actually delivered.
Everyone is aware of how the first decision was implemented. Army Chief Dalbir Singh was given a free hand regarding the execution of the response.
Regarding the second decision, an elaborate charade was set in motion the very next day.
Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh stated that India could not act based on emotion. Shortly thereafter, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar declared that the sacrifice of the soldiers killed in Uri would not go in vain; he directed the Army to take "concrete steps."
However, to ensure the enemy did not become suspicious, junior ministers were asked to issue some sharp statements. Minister of State Subhash Bhamre remarked that the time had come to launch a counter-attack.
On September 24, while addressing a public rally in Kerala, Prime Minister Modi said that India and Pakistan should fight against common enemies—poverty, social evils, illiteracy, and unemployment—and see who wins that war.
The public and the media were taken aback by the Prime Minister's statement; they had been expecting strong rhetoric and military action.
Yet, this "war against poverty" created a ruse that conveyed the impression that India was merely engaging in political posturing and lacked the political will to take actual action. Meanwhile, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj stated that over the past two years, India had extended a hand of friendship to Pakistan that was unprecedented. We offered Eid greetings to Pakistan's Prime Minister and wished their cricket team success. But what did we get in return? Pathankot and Uri.
Even as Sushma Swaraj was delivering her address—and while it was night in India—commandos from the Indian Army's Special Forces were given the green signal to carry out a surgical strike. Indian commandos entered enemy territory, eliminated dozens of terrorists, and returned on September 29 without suffering any casualties.
As soon as the commandos re-entered Indian territory, Prime Minister Modi was informed of the mission's success.
This sequence of events has been described in detail by Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh in their book, *India's Most Fearless* (Volume 1).
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@OversLife The D/N Match Was Played In Bangalore Chinnaswamy Stadium QF 1996 Wills ICC CWC. I Was In College & Saw It Live On TV & Entire City Celebrated The Indian Team Victory Throughout The Night.