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Batting Below our Potential

We Bat Below our Potential.
(NO ONE LOVES A WARRIOR TILL THE ENEMY IS AT THE GATE)
This is a fact and Good Morning on that. This applies specially to our effete elite. The last 70 odd years we have only been tip toeing around matters of strategy, that explains why we have our neighbours having a go at us. 
I am linking the second snap to it because it's of Mauritius in the late 1970s. Mauritius is quite well developed now. This proves there is a route forward. But we can only argue endlessly and forever. Action is for later or will happen if its in our karma. We consistently bat well below our actual potential. 
This is the sad part of our being endlessly argumentative and being in love with status quo. I thought this affliction of being soft on action but long on verbosity affected a certain region only but now it's spreading. 
How do we evolve from here is the question.
By the way the two soldiers who died at Kupwara are Naik Shankar Chandrabhan Shinde Age 34, married two kids from Nasik and Gunner Maruti Sahadev. Age 26 from Bijapur Karnataka. He was recently engaged. One Major is injured. It was minus fourteen degree during the night when the encounter was on.
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Two Army Jawans are martyred today in Kupwara District, say around 150 kilometers or so from Srinagar. Three army troopers are also injured in the firefight with terrorists. These are media reports just streaming in. Two terrorists are stated to be killed too. I hope it was not over enthusiasm to close in on the shelter where the terrorists were holed up that led to the deaths. It is snowing heavily there. It will be harsh and forbidding to conduct an operation in such weather. God Bless the martyrs and the injured and their families as also the officers and men performing their duty. Theur commitment keeps us motivated to perform our best. 
I hope these officers and men did not watch or read the happenings at JNU. They would certainly feel disturbed and de-motivated. 
What a week for the Army. The nine dead at Siachen and now this. It's a well organized, motivated and disciplined force but they need our implied backing and respect. 
And Professors and Students are to understand there are boundaries on freedom of speech as far as nationhood is concerned. Atleast on Universities funded by taxpayers money.
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