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Sep 18, 2026
Kushal MehraHOST
At that time, those people were
Aadit KapadiaGUEST
invading Kargil.
Aadit KapadiaGUEST
Control, Varma.
Kushal MehraHOST
Control.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
It may have lasted 87 hours, but nobody knew when it will end, which is the problem with armed conflict.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
And in this case, because it was all dimension, this was very different from anything India had, had seen, even including the war in Kargil.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
The war in Kargil was localized along the Line of Control because India had said India will never cross the Line of Control.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
In this case, there was no, no Line of Control.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
Also, second significant thing, everything was beyond visual range, so nobody could see anybody.
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Shekhar GuptaHOST
That's not a sta-statement of military intent.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
That's why I say India has no intention of invading Pakistan to grab any territory.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
India will only use military means, as I read it, if there is grave provocation from Pakistan, whether it's of a terrorist kind or it is of Kargil kind.
Shiv AroorHOST
We hear so much about the Air Force, the Army, and what they've done in operations.
Shiv AroorHOST
Whether it is Kargil, which Vishnu covered extensively, to Parakram, which was the forward deployment, to Operation Sindur right now.
Shiv AroorHOST
I want you to give us a sense, you know, maybe you can't speak about all of it, but a sense of what the submarine arms role was in all of these operations.
Shiv AroorHOST
Because the submarines obviously weren't just sitting around.
John McLaughlinGUEST
We were also working on things related to the Balkans, uh, which had just been through wars and through a change of government in, uh, Serbia.
John McLaughlinGUEST
And, uh, we were working on, uh, India-Pakistan because they had just, a year or two before, come off of the Kargil crisis.
John McLaughlinGUEST
We were struggling with budget issues because our budget had been cut about twenty-three percent in the decade before, and as I remember, actually the morning of 9/11, I was chairing a Um, a meeting of our staff.
John McLaughlinGUEST
The director was downtown, uh, with a, a meeting with a senator, uh, Senator Boren, and I, I was chairing our morning staff meeting, and we were talking about principally budget issues, and principally as related to counterterrorism.
AvailleNARRATOR
The wind is always strong and the millions of bright corollas drinking in the sunblaze which perfects all too soon their brief but passionate existence rippled in broad waves of colour with an almost kaleidoscopic effect.
AvailleNARRATOR
About the eleventh march from Sinagar at Kargil a change for the worse occurs and the remaining marches to the capital of Ladakh are over blazing gravel or surfaces of denuded rock, the singular caprifolia horrida with its green dark mass of wavy ovate leaves on trailing stems and its fair white anemone-like blossom and the graceful clematis orientalis the only vegetation.
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Crossing a raging affluent of the Dras by a bridge which swayed and shivered, the top of a steep hill offered a view of a great valley with branches sloping up into the ravines of a complexity of mountain ranges from 18,000 to 21,000 feet in altitude with glaciers at times descending as low as 11,000 feet in their hollows.
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In consequence of such possibilities of irrigation the valley is green with irrigated grass and barley and villages with flat roofs scattered among the crops or perched on the spurs of flame-coloured mountains give it a wild cheerfulness.
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Icy water could be drunk in safety from every crystal torrent.
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Leaving behind the Dras villages and their fertility, the narrow road passes through a flaming valley above the Dras, walled in by bare, riven, snow-patched peaks, with steep declivities of stones, huge boulders, decaying avalanches, walls and spires of rock, some vermilion, others pink, a few intense orange, some black and many plum-coloured, with a vitrified look, only to be represented by purple madder.
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Huge red chasms with glacier-fed torrents, occasional snow-fields, intense solar heat radiating from dry and verdureless rock, a ravine so steep and narrow that for miles together there is not space to pitch a five-foot tent, the deafening roar of a river gathering volume and fury as it goes, rare openings where willows are planted with lucerne in their irrigated shade, among which the traveller camps at night, and over all a sky of pure intense blue purpling into starry night, were the features of the next three marches, noteworthy chiefly for the exchange of the thundering grass for the thundering suru, and for some bad bridges and infamous bits of roads before reaching Kargil, where the mountains swing apart, giving space to several villages.
AvailleNARRATOR
Miles of alluvium are under irrigation there.
Cyrus BroachaHOST
...you'll have so much, you know, uh, influence।
Abhijeet Singh ParmarGUEST
So I mean, uh, also Kargil war was the first televised war। So we had all followed it।
Cyrus BroachaHOST
हाँ।
Abhijeet Singh ParmarGUEST
But even then I didn't know anything about the Air Force's involvement in the war। So it all came, uh, Kushal sir of-- uh, it started with him-
Cyrus BroachaHOST
...and many other things have happened in the world।
Abhijeet Singh ParmarGUEST
Yeah।
Cyrus BroachaHOST
We sort of forget very quickly even though what 20, 25 years have passed and already you're-- new people were, "Kargil क्या हुआ? क्या हुआ exactly?" But sir will tell us। तो यह idea, सबसे बड़ी चीज है idea। The idea came from where?
Kushal SrivastavaGUEST
So I had joined, uh, Indian Air Force in '99।
Shekhar GuptaHOST
Many of them surrendered, many of them were caught, and many of these operational orders, and many of these operational orders in detail were recovered, and these are appended in his book.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
Tariq Force, for example, was given the area of Kargil, Qasim Force area of Gurez, Khalid Force area of Titwal along the LOC.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
F Force or Foxtrot Force.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
I don't know the-- He doesn't mention the exact name of it.
speaker_0HOST
A mountain ridge that appears insignificant on a map can control a road, overlook a supply route, or provide a major surveillance advantage.
speaker_0HOST
In 1999, Pakistani soldiers and fighters crossed into positions on the Indian side of the line of control near Kargil.
speaker_0HOST
India launched a major military operation to push them back.
speaker_0HOST
The fighting remained geographically limited, but it occurred only one year after India and Pakistan had openly tested nuclear weapons.
Navdeep SuriGUEST
You know, it's one thing to project it over your own people.
Navdeep SuriGUEST
But when it translates into misadventures, and we saw that in 65, we saw it in Kargil, we've seen it through all manner of use of non-state actors, terrorist groups.
Navdeep SuriGUEST
So there has always been that temptation in the Pakistani defence establishment to take advantage of what might be an opportunistic scenario, but usually they've fallen flat on that.
Siddharth BhatiaHOST
Can I just, India has been very generally neutral about it so far, but there have been comments by experts.
Sahil AdeemHOST
Why did he need a chair against America's orders? Clinton kept refusing.
Sahil AdeemHOST
Clinton, on whose orders Nawaz Sharif had sent thousands of soldiers to Kargil.
Sahil AdeemHOST
Clinton continued to refuse, even threatened, but no, he read it.
Sahil AdeemHOST
The public will save the chair, I need the power of the public here.
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