Tuesday, December 30, 2008

India Planning Troop Deployment to Afghanistan?

Is India planning to deploy troops to Afghanistan? Orbat.com thinks so. They India is looking to make this offer to the incoming Obama administration.
How many troops? They're saying 120,000. That's quite a heavy number. Apparently, it would be politically much easier for Indian troops to use Russia and Iran as supply routes than for the US to do so.
It's most likely just a psychological ploy to get Pak to reverse its withdrawal of forces from the fight against Taliban. But either way, we'd benefit. It can't get much worse than where we are now.
It's upto the US to say yes/no, but hopefully Obama's self-styled out-of-the-box thinking would at least give us a hearing.

1 comment:

tat_tvam_asi said...

The Baloch freedom movement will get a boost. We should get Israel to train them, while we arm them.