{"id":3587,"date":"2021-07-02T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:19:39","slug":"interview-on-plaaf-and-defence-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/07\/02\/interview-on-plaaf-and-defence-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"148: Interview on PLAAF and Defence Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">Interview with <em>Lt Gen Gurmit Singh<\/em>, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM (Retired) was essentially on defence issues, mainly related to China. The interview was published on 01 Jul 21, coincidently,\u00a0 on the day of 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Know what happens in your sky; Air marshal Anil Khosla &amp; Gen. Gurmit explains PLA.\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZXvXPhCE8Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">Besides china other issues were discussed<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(For selective viewing please click on the links below)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZXvXPhCE8Y\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #993300;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>00:00 &#8211; 09:30<\/em><\/span>: PLAAF, background, modernisation, capability building, restructuring, &#8220;no contact warfare&#8221; philosophy and grey zone warfare etc.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZXvXPhCE8Y?t=570\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #003366;\"><em><u>09:30 &#8211; 14:30<\/u><\/em>: Chinese indigenous ac industry, claimed capability, SWOT analysis and drone industry etc.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZXvXPhCE8Y?t=870\"><span style=\"color: #003300; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><u>14:30 &#8211; 20:30<\/u>:<\/em> IAF capability enhancement with induction of Rafale, c<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">hinook and apache aircraft, balance between quantity and quality, Atmanirbharta\u00a0 etc.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZXvXPhCE8Y?t=1230\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800080;\"><em><u>20:30 &#8211; 24:25<\/u> <\/em>: Aspects related to Quality of manpower, tactics and training.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZXvXPhCE8Y?t=1465\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em style=\"color: #800000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><u>24:25 &#8211; 29:50<\/u> :<\/em><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> Pakistan Air Force and Pak-China collusivity.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZXvXPhCE8Y?t=1790\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #3366ff;\"><em><u>29:50 &#8211; 35:30<\/u><\/em> : Doklam, balakot, Galwan, jointness, Role of IAF in Galwan etc.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZXvXPhCE8Y?t=2130\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #993366;\"><em><u>35:30 &#8211; 40:15<\/u> <\/em>: Defence forces &#8211; serving with passion and benefits.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZXvXPhCE8Y?t=2415\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #008000;\"><em><u>40:15 &#8211; 46:45<\/u><\/em> : Views on jointness and theatrisation.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GZXvXPhCE8Y?t=2805\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;\"><em><u>46:45 &#8211; 52:00<\/u><\/em> : Puzzle and Sudoku solving.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Comments and value additions are most welcome<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\">For regular updates please register here &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/\">https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Lt Gen Gurmit Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM (Retired) was essentially on defence issues, mainly related to China. The interview was published on 01 Jul 21, coincidently,\u00a0 on the day of 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Besides china other issues were discussed (For selective viewing please click &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/07\/02\/interview-on-plaaf-and-defence-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;148: Interview on PLAAF and Defence Matters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,16,68,75,138,13,15,78,87,56,28,73,1,90,11,115],"tags":[6,7,24,47,67,46,8,34,35,62,52,30,40],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airpower","category-china","category-events","category-geo-politics","category-iaf","category-indigenisation","category-interview","category-leadership","category-military-capability","category-motivation","category-pakistan","category-technology","category-theaterisation","category-uncategorized","category-video","category-videos","category-war-and-warfare","tag-airpower","tag-balakot","tag-china","tag-defence-services","tag-grey-zone","tag-higher-defence-organisation","tag-iaf","tag-interview","tag-pakistan","tag-puzzles","tag-strategic-thinking","tag-technology","tag-world-order"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8626,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions\/8626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}