Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd)

National security, strategy, military history, aerospace power. Author: Transforming India’s External Security Using It’s Ancient Strategic Culture

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@palepurshankar @Gen_RajShukla @YouTube @HQ_IDS_India @SpokespersonMoD First create integration between the Services and then create integrated commands. Don’t use integrated commands for creating integration. Don’t tie the cart before the horse. Integrate at the top leadership, the field has always delivered.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@palepurshankar @Gen_RajShukla @YouTube @HQ_IDS_India @SpokespersonMoD Sir, who decides the national interest? Acknowledge it or not Air dominates the application of power today and IAF is the national instrument which maximises this application. Important to distinguish national interest from imposing own ideas.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@Chellaney So what is wrong with it? If the govt is responsible for security and welfare of the people they have a right to appoint the best person whom they deem fit for the job. It has been so since millennia. Criticise the outcome of actions let the govt have freedom of action.

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

*Rubio in Delhi: India Is Not America’s Geopolitical Uber*

Marco Rubio arrives in New Delhi this week bearing the usual Washington gift hamper - strategic smiles, solemn handshakes, vague assurances, and PowerPoint promises about “shared democratic values.”

India should offer tea.

And keep one hand firmly on its wallet.

Because beneath the diplomatic cologne lies an old American habit: treating allies as disposable paper napkins and partners as door mats..

Donald Trump’s recent vulgar remarks about India — describing it in language better suited to a drunken barroom than the office of the President of the United States — were not merely offensive. They were revealing.

Civilised nations occasionally make mistakes.

Empires reveal instincts.

And Trump, as always, has the emotional discipline of a hand grenade with a wig.

But here is the more important question - why is Rubio suddenly in Delhi, all earnest eyebrows and strategic concern, immediately after Trump’s China pirouette?

Simple.

Because Washington has once again remembered geography.

China is not going away.
Russia is not collapsing.
Europe is distracted, ageing, and economically breathless.

And in the Indo-Pacific chessboard, India is not a decorative bishop.

It is the board.

For years, America has behaved like that wealthy, unreliable relative who remembers family only when he needs a loan.

One year India is “the world’s largest democracy,” indispensable to the rules-based order.

The next, India is lectured on human rights, trade deficits, tariffs, minority politics, Russian oil, climate virtue, and whatever fashionable sanctimony is trending in Washington cocktail circuits.

Then China sneezes — and suddenly New Delhi becomes strategically irresistible again.

How touching.

Marco Rubio’s visit is not an act of affection.

It is an act of arithmetic.

America knows a blunt truth it hates admitting aloud - it cannot contain China without India.

Japan cannot do it.
Australia cannot do it.
Europe certainly cannot do it between its regulatory conferences and moral seminars.

And America, despite all its aircraft carriers and cinematic self-confidence, knows that Indo-Pacific strategy without India is a brochure, not a doctrine.

But India must resist the oldest temptation in diplomacy - confusing attention with respect.

The United States respects strength.
It tolerates utility.
It sentimentalises neither.
Look at history.

Pakistan was America’s “major non-NATO ally” — until it wasn’t.

The Kurds were useful — until abandoned.

Afghanistan was vital — until the helicopters lifted off.

Ukraine was heroic — until budget fatigue set in.

American foreign policy does not marry.

It dates.

India must remember this before the cameras begin flashing.

And let us dispense with this absurd television question: “Can Rubio rebuild trust?”

Trust?

Between nations?

This is geopolitics, not marriage counselling.

Nations do not operate on trust.
They operate on leverage.

India’s great diplomatic achievement over the past decade has been its refusal to become anyone’s obedient geopolitical intern.

It buys Russian oil.
Works with America.
Trades with Europe.
Engages the Gulf.
Manages China.
Partners with Japan.
Courts Africa.
Speaks to the Global South.

That is not indecision.

That is adulthood.

The old doctrine of “non-alignment” was often moral theatre wrapped in Nehruvian incense.

What India practices today is far sharper: multi-alignment with hard realism.

And that must remain non-negotiable.

If Rubio comes bearing serious offers — defence technology transfer, intelligence cooperation, semiconductor partnerships, supply-chain relocation, strategic minerals collaboration — India should engage enthusiastically.

If he comes merely with sermons and strategic small talk, Delhi should smile politely and check the time.

Because India is no longer a supplicant nation seeking Western validation.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@RakshaSamachar CDS, DMA and every other effort at integration not needed, if jointness can be enhanced by MoA. I thought the Indian Military comprised of 3 Service and jointness required all 3 to work together. But in the age of AI anything is possible.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@manpreetsethi01 I was introduced to Stobdan by Amb PS Raghavan. We included his book ‘Great Game in the Buddhist Himalayas’ in WASP and called him over to CAW for mentoring the book discussion. It provided great insight into Chinese behaviour. He and his knowledge will be missed.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@arunp2810 @Chopsyturvey This ‘former National Guard Major’ is the one to whom all the Combatant Commands of the US report. The Army Chief of Staff had no operational role except through the JSCS. If the ‘Major’ is responsible he also has the authority. CMR -why fret?

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Schrödinger was a devoted, lifelong student of the Upanishads. He did not just like Indian philosophy; he credited it as the only logical solution to the Arithmetic Paradox of quantum mechanics.

n his personal writings, he stated that the idea of Individual Souls was a mathematical error. He famously wrote: "The only possible alternative (to the paradox) is... to be found in the Upanishads: Brahman = Atman."

1 of the fathers of Quantum Mechanics was essentially a "Western Vedantin." He used the insights of the Upanishads to interpret what quantum mechanics was whispering: that the observer & the observed are ultimately 1.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@ByRakeshSimha Ancient India had no concept of religion. Religion is a western concept, from west of India. Spiritualism and ritualism are different. Ancient India placed spiritualism at the highest pedestal. Braham gyan-spiritualism-the foundational understanding of the universe and the self

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@TheEconomist Are you actually this stupid? I always thought that your articles are written with research and insight. But this tweet is moronic to say the least.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@NehraWorkss A peer to peer app for similar purpose was built in BITS Pilani Goa campus about 3 years ago. The students are using it without any charges.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@shanaka86 For all its capabilities, what will it hit in Iran that has not already been hit. In this war now capabilities of weapon delivery systems don’t matter. What matters, is to understand the strategic intent of the warring parties and the means to tackle that intent.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@sushantsareen Every conflict is initiated with a political aim. Strategy is made to achieve that aim with military means. In this case military supremacy by US may have led them to adopt an incorrect strategy. They are paying the cost of hubris.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@AMANNIJHAWAN2 @CeoNoida @noida_authority @CMOfficeUP I sincerely hope that this attempt, if it is there to not comply with the Hon’ Supreme Court’s directions is not because of corruption. I also believe that the new CEO will ensure that the right things will be done on this issue.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@MattooShashank Surely you must be having a record of the condemnations by Iran rulers of the Pahalgam killings and other terrorist attacks including the strong support that was provided to India during Op Sindoor.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@TheChiefNerd Strange comment. That 20 years of nourishment is what has created AI. Understand the macro and the micro universe to understand the enormity of creation. Only the ignorant will compare it with AI. AI is just a tech advancement creating a major upheaval in societal functioning

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

I live there. Administrative negligence of Noida authority had created an area where it was almost certain that accident would happen. They cannot escape blame. What is unfortunate is that there were agencies and people at the spot who could have saved him but they were cowards.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@myogiadityanath @ChiefSecyUP @CeoNoida @dmgbnagar @CP_Noida Criminal negligence leading to the death of a 27 year old man in Sector 150 Noida. Car fell in a deep unprotected pond filled with water near the road. Man was alive for approximately 2 hours. Could not be saved.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

https://t.co/GGSzG9cZCh. Administrative apathy of Noida authorities created a killing spot and cowardice of agencies responsible for saving citizens led to a helpless old father watch his son drown and die infront of him and many others who could have saved him.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@AnumaVidisha If you understand the meaning of the word empathy, you might understand that father’s pain. Please stop politicising his pain. This is the least one human can do for another human.

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@mr_mayank Don’t behave like a Vulture. Please don’t politicise a father’s grief. Find some other issues for your politics

[Gp Capt RR Chaudhary (Retd) @rrchau01]

@DrNimoYadav Are you a Vulture? You want to politicise someone’s grief.