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If China & Pakistan attack India together, is the Indian Army strong enough to protect the nation?

China silently occupied more than 32km area of Indian border. 13 Chinese satellites focus all activities of Indian Army. PAK increasing its Army in Indian border . SRI LANKA is giving its 2 Army Airports to CHINA . Naxals already a threat inside (funded by China).

I know India has missiles such as Agni & Prithvi, but is it good enough?

Apparently relations are well with China but if that is the case why is China preparing as if they are about to go on war with India? Revenge for TIBET issue?

Your views, thank you.

Update:

That brings me to another question...If China & India go to war, who will USA support? Keep in mind the economic relations between USA & CHINA.

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    Madhukar ji has given a great answer and let me add few things to that....

    First of all Pakistan cannot afford to attack India with China. Why I say so? By doing that, Pakistan looses its biggest and greatest ally United States. One of the main reason why US supports Pakistan is because to reduce Chinese influence in the region, and the day United Status loosed its purpose, Pakistan is of no use of them.

    Second, Sri Lanka may allow China, Nepal and Bangladesh may allow China to use their soil for various purpose but they cannot never allow China to use their soil to attack India. As soon as they do that, they loose their aid and ally like India, European nations and UK, and also they face sections from United Nations. Sri Lanka who already under fire from Europe because Tamil issues cannot never dream of such disaster.

    I agree with Madhukarji these are tactics of proxy war nothing more than that. This is not 1962 that China can walk into India and take away the land of its desire.

    Lets talk about almighty dragon itself.

    We all read about Chinese economy, we all know that Chinese economy is very strong, it is growing, it is growing and it may leave behind United States in coming years etc etc. But I am sure we all are well aware of these facts too:

    1. Chine economy is totally dependent of export.

    2. The quality of Chinese product is B class if not C class.

    3. Chinese currency value is manipulated by that government and is not open in international market for evaluation.

    4. All the data that is available for China is provided by Chinese government and government sponsored media, nothing is available by independent analyst or international media.

    I am not saying that Chinese growth is false, but I am saying, it is dependent on others, and it is suspicious and may be manipulated.

    We have all read about Chinese defense capabilities, but how? In past 5 decades China has not gone for a single war, all we have seen is show of power by China on Chinese day parades. Should we really conclude by looking at these show that China is powerful? In my view Chinese power is hidden, it may be many times more than what is visible or just a show off. No one know how capable Chinese defense is. I understand that China has created a hype of its defense only to create artificial fear among the neighbors like India.

    We have been reading about war fear between China and India. There were some reports from some independent analysts that these fears are created by United States so that India go ahead and by more weapons and benefit shrinking United States economy. It was also mentioned that Indian media is helping US arms dealers in the same.

    Now let us talk about Indian defense capabilities. You have mentioned about Agni and Prithvi, of course they are pride of India, but they are not the only ones that are protecting India. India is equipped with many other defense weapons such AAD, S-300PMU-2, Akaash, SA-5.6.8, 13. 12, INS-Virat, Tajas, Dhruv, and many more...

    China has very large population and strict population control policies that is why they have large armed forces. In-spite of those regulations, If China has largest army in the world, India has second largest army in the world, if China has 3rd largest air force in the world, India has 4th largest air force in the world.

    Chinese armed forces are larger than India, and so is the country, however, India is not Tibet and India is not India that was in 1962. I don't know in the war who will have the upper hand but for sure, in the unfortunate event of war, none can claim ultimate victory.

    When two powers of this intensity fight, the only result is destruction, neither India nor China wants that, but if that comes our way, surely India is not a peace of cake for China.

    United States support in event of war between India and China? That is an interesting question, US supports only and only where and when its own interest is involved. In 1962 even USSR refused to help India against China. It was only US that came forward to help India. And that was not that US has some brotherly love for India, but it was its own interest.

    Same stands true today, US is under immense pressure from China due to debts, but US is also under pressure from its citizen to step up aggressive against China. So you never know what would US do? Bowing to China would be politically suicidal for any president in United States. So United States would make its own decision, depending on the situations, but we cannot decide our policies and defense based on United States and expectation of US help.

    Edit:

    I would like to differ with Mudhukar ji on one point, US President's current announcements against outsourcing are not India centric but that are generic, Indian media has projected it as India centric. It is true that Indian technology market will be impacted if that comes to reality, but that is also true that will never come to reality. That is another election stunt nothing more than that. US industries cannot find the same cost savings in US as they find in Asia and Latin America that is why they are compelled to outsource job and manufacturing industry irrespective if US gives them tax cuts or not. US President's announcements does not say that he is stopping tax breaks for companies outsourcing to India but to anywhere that includes China and Japan.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Indian has about the 3rd-4th largest and strongest army in the world. Pakistan is nowhere near the top 10, so whoever thinks Pakistan is on the top 10 of the biggest armies in the world, are idiots. Pakistan usually chooses a nuclear war as it had chosen before until USA prevented this. Ever since then, Pakistan had been developing nuclear bombs reasoning it as 'National Security' but the real reason was to throw them at India. India has USA, UK and the rest of the united nations on it's back. However, Pakistan has China, Japan & Russia behind it. So it's a hard question, but a logical and fair war without alliances being braught in or nuclear weapons would mean India would probably win.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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  • krell
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Pakistan Army Vs Indian Army

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Its If Pakistan And India Attack China, We In The UK Have Harm The Two Countries With Nuclear Weapons, Which Are Near China, Russia And North Korea.

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    6 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    In terms of army strength it is a definite no. Back when MaoZheDong was Chairman, the Chinese invaded India. They attacked so fast and swiftly that the forward lines had no idea whether or not to keep pushing to the capital. They literally could see the tops of the mosques.

    About the missiles. Probably not. If the Chinese attack fast enough, it might be a repeat of a blitzkrieg.

    Also, who knows how good they are. You don't hear news about India building a new ICBM every day.

    Every country always has some sort of standby mode for their army. In case you don't know. Russia still has most of their ICBMs pointed at the US. As for the Tibet issue, it wasn't an issue. It was a pathetic publicity stunt to try and defame China right before the 2008 Olympics.

    If they do go to war, it will be a nuclear winter between the two. The U.S can't support either because fear of retaliation. However, if the U.S was forced to take sides, it would support China because China has a billion ICBMs.

    Source(s): I'm Chinese-American. I'm not racist btw, I have a lot of Indian friends.
  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    CONSIDERING THIS SITUATION FACTUAL:

    (PAKISTAN AND CHINA) AGAINST INDIA. : IT WOULD BEGIN WITH A PAKISTANI AIR ATTACK ON INDIAN AIRFORCE BASE. THE ENTIRE AIRFORCE WOULD BE MOBILIZED PUSHING 272 SUKHOIS IN THE AIR WITH AN INTELLIGENCE INPUT IN ANTICIPATION OF A CHINESE SECONDARY.

    A SECOND CHINESE ATTACK WOULD BE RECEIVED. THIS WOULD TRIGGER A RESPONSE FROM MOSCOW AS THE DEFENSE PACT BETWEEN INDIA AND RUSSIA WILL BE ACTIVATED UNDER THE SPECIAL CLAUSE OF THE PACT STATING EXPLICITLY THAT A TWO FRONT WAR WITH A RUSSIAN ALLY WOULD PUSH RUSSIA IN.

    THE POINT WHERE THIS GETS INTERESTING IS THE DEFENSE AGREEMENT BETWEEN DELHI AND WASHINGTON AND THE WELL UNDERSTOOD MEANING OF THE TERM "ASIA-PIVOT". US LAWMAKERS WOULD LOOK OUT FOR JOINT INTERESTS OF THE US AND INDIA AND MIGHT MAKE US NAVAL SUPPORT AVAILABLE TO INDIA.

    THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST TIME THAT THE TWO MAJOR SUPERPOWERS OF THE WORLD WOULD BE FIGHTING ALONG THE SAME SIDE. PAKISTAN ARMY WOULD BE PUSHED TO THE EDGE LEADING TO LIBERATION OF BALOCHISTAN BY THE INDIAN ARMY.

    THE SITUATION CAN FURTHUR COMPLICATE IF JAPAN STEPS IN BEING A MILITARY ALLY OF INDIA. THE WAR HOWEVER WILL NEVER TURN NUCLEAR BECAUSE THAT WOULD MEAN THE END OF THE WORLD AND THE EXTINCTION OF MANKIND.

    SO IT WOULD BE LIKE :(RUSSIA, INDIA, US, JAPAN, NATO) vs (CHINA , PAKISTAN).

    NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU MAY DENY THIS BUT TH VICTORY IS OBVIOUS FOR ONE SIDE WHICH I WILL NOT MENTION TO REMAIN UNBAISED. BUT THIS IS THE CIRCUMSTANCE THAT THE CHINESE ARMY HAS GRAVELY EVALUATED AND IS THEREFORE STAYING AWAY FROM A CONFLICT OR EVEN BACKING PAKISTAN.

    IN THE 1999 KARGIL WAR, CHINESE SECRETLY BACKED THE AMERICAN EFFORTS TO FORCE PAKISTAN TO LEAVE / SURRENDER THE KARGIL AND REMOVE THE INTRUDERS FROM THE REGION. CHINA KNOWS THIS AND THIS IS THE ASIA-PIVOT THAT AMERICA TALKS ABOUT.

    THIS IS WHY THE WORLD IS IN PEACE TODAY. BECAUSE RUSSIA AND THE U.S. ARE KEEPING IT SO. SO THATS THAT.

  • 5 years ago

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    Tough one here you do know that both have nuclear bombs (atom bombs) for this particular reason. If one of them attacked each other both of them would get destroyed. The Indian army is bigger than the Pakistani, that's a fact, but who needs men when you have nuclear weapons?! And above that, Pakistan do have China as a "back up" (friendly relationships) so they would definitely cause India some problems as well. In the end, if you look at it just soldier-wise, then India would win because of their huge army, but otherwise both of them would pretty much be destroyed.

  • 7 years ago

    Well few things are for sure.

    If this hypothetical thing happens. It’s for sure that India will not be a cake walk for China. China will win the war. But they won’t have anything to celebrate the victory. As the economic loss due to the war would have pushed them back to stone age. At the same time they will be extremely venerable for attacks from other nations. So all their efforts to gain supremacy would have went in vain. On the other hand for Indians. They would have losses beyond measure and will require few more centuries to get things moving. All in all the entire Asian region would just be a ticking time bomb. Which needless to mention will affect the entire world economy.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    mostly indian just trying to put Pakistan down like it cant do this or that.. just remember afghan have nothing they dont have army tactical missile or proper army but they still exist . Pakistan is 6th biggiest army

    russia is far he has to cross centeral asia, missile will take time to reach europe will get suspecious and most likely back up pak china if they wont stay netural, us never helped pak in any war, i doubt it they come for india..

    there is no need to fight,

    this 3 feet elephant will fall on its own poverty 600 million lives under one dollar a day,

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