Col. Dr. Kuntamukkala Prabhakar Rao: January 2021

THEATRE COMMANDS.. a quagmire awaits us

Dr Prof K Prabhakar Rao

We keep reading in press frequently that Indian army is going to reorganise itself with major changes. the forces is likely to be reorganized with theatre commands. this throws up some important questions and doubts too. of late we are much influenced by American military set up and there is a great tendency to ape the yankees in all aspects. America is a world power and has global interests. it has military bases in all continents and in all oceans and seas to protect their interests. it had also waged wars after wwii,from time to time such as Korean War, Vietnam War, Irq war, Afghanistan war, Syrian war, Palestine war proxy for Israrelis, In comparison we have only two enemies and they are Pakistan and china. the small countries neighbouring our country are nepal, Bangladesh,Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, lanka, maldives, brunei, bhutan and these countries pose no military threat to us. with Afghanistan we have no land border as POK is with Pakistan. thus ,theatre based wars for India looks strange.Although the top brass keep stating that India is capable of fighting simultaneous war with china and pak, in reality it appears doubtful. the stand off with PLA I. E CHINA HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE nine months and we are unable to evict PLA from our land. we lost the initiative immediately after the first physical hostilities. Where PLA soldiers and Indian soldiers fought each other in pitch darkness without fire arms in which we lost a colonel and 19 men. probably PLA lost many more. There have been never ending discussions with PLA to resolve the issue but nothing could be achieved and PLA entrenched itself. talking of theatre war in such scenario is strange in fact. It appears the creation of theatre commanders is a prelude to increase the ranks of such commanders to four star gen ranks while CDS gets, elevated to five star rank.creation of more and heavier brass with more stars and flags appears to be the aim . where are our global interests in different continents?till now India foufgt several wars with Pakistan and China under existing command structure such as North, south, east central and western commands, apart from training command. it is unlikely that we are going to fight sea battles fardeep in bay of bengal or Arabian sea . India is unlikely to be a part of multinational force in future war that could reach shores of middle East or sea shores near china. in such scenario what purpose will be achieved by creating theatre commands except creating bottle necks ,delay areas and Red tapism. Nothing more. it is opined that no useful purpose will be achieved by the quixotic changes in the present set up.

AURANGZEB WAS A CUNNING AND UNSCRUPULOUS MONARCH WHO LIES BURIED AT KHULDABAD

D R K Prabhakar Rao

Very true. Aurangzeb the great Mughal was a very cunning monarch and in fact a manifestation of satan. Although Muslims praised him as the living peer, he was treacherous, and was hell bent on making India an Islamic land. But For Shivaji , he could have succeeded. He put his eldest son mohd sultan for life in prison here he whithered away. the prince was marriied to daughter of Abdullah kutubsha of golconda and the prince was to succeed to Golconda as the ruler after Abdulah as per an agreement whenmughal forces laid long seize to Golconda fort. But the prince died in jail. Aurangzeb played very dirty with his another son prince Akbar who revolted against the emperor. auragzeb wrote a, false letter and ensured that it fell into the hands of Rajputs who were protecting prince Akbar under the leadership of Durga das. this created differences between prince Akbar and Rajputs and prince had to escape and took refuge with Sambhaji maharaj ,son of shivaji maharaj. finally The prince escaped to Iran and was never heard again . Aurangzeb as vengence killed sambhaji in the most cruel way after he was captured by deceipt at sangameswar. . thus ,Aurangzeb troubled humanity very greatly..He destroyed thousands of temples. finally he died at Ahmednagar unsung.Hecwas buried at khuldabad few km from Aurangabad. his grave was most dimple built of mere mud. However ist Nizam of Hyderabad chin khilij khan, built a simple marble platform with barricade. Even to day , people complain of severe headache and nausea after visiting his grave at khuldabad. however sultan Abul hasan kutub shah the vanquished sultan of golconda was laid to rest at a, small distance from the grave of Aurangzeb. the sultan ok golconda was kept captivrvat daultabad fort in a palace after golconda was annexed after year long seize. he was gentleman king.Thus victo and vanquished lay buried at sane place.