THE WELLINGTON EXPERIENCE (A STUDY OF ATTITUDES AND VALUES WITHIN THE INDIAN ARMY) Thread The book by US Army officer, Col David O Smith (retd) offers an in-depth analysis of #India’s premier military institution ‘Defence Services Staff College, Wellington’ (DSSC). /1
Some of the Key findings include:- a)The #DSSC’s approach to education sharply restricts useful learning and inhibits the development of critical thinking. b)In the event of a future war with #Pakistan or #China, the Indian Army may not perform as well as it expects. /2
c)The intensity of Indian Army hostility toward Pakistan is increasing. Although China is perceived as India’s major long-term security threat, there is reluctance to characterize it as an enemy. d)The Indian Army appears unconcerned about the efficacy of... /3
...Pakistani tactical #nuclear weapons and totally unprepared to operate in a nuclear environment. e)Despite two decades of increasingly close #US-Indian political and #military relations, a high level of mistrust (and thinly veiled hostility) about the United States... /4
...generally persists in all three groups of Indian #officers. f) The ground doctrine taught at the DSSC pays insufficient attention to combat support and combat service support functions, and fails to adequately address combined arms operations. /5
g)Indian Army has yet to completely quell any of India’s four long-running insurgencies. h)Indian Army ignores its own counterinsurgency doctrine in J & K and the extrajudicial killing is an unacknowledged feature of that #doctrine. /6 (concl) #IndianArmy @StimsonCenter
