Secrecy leads to blackmail. Complete honesty will ensure security.

India conducted 'surgical strikes' across the Line of Control in Kashmir killing 38 terrorists. This was in retaliation for the attack on the brigade headquarters at Uri that killed 18 soldiers on 18 September. Our media has been giving detailed accounts of the operation and retired generals have suddenly come out of closets to give detailed analysis of every detail. The propaganda channel, BBC dismissed the news in one sentence by saying that Pakistan has denied any attack on occupied Kashmir but found time to show goat yoga in the US. The question is why have the British and Americans been supporting Pakistan through all these years especially now when it is clear that Pakistan is the center of terrorism in the world? India has had 3 wars with Pakistan which we have won but every time we have handed over territory without any concession in return. Israel could sign a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979 because it was able to offer the Sinai Peninsula, which it had captured in the Six Day War in 1967. Israelis sitting on the banks of the Suez Canal was seriously hampering Egypt's economy. Israel was also able to sign a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994 after Jordan had renounced any claim to the West Bank in 1988, which was won by Israel in 1967. Couple of days ago Shimon Peres passed away at the age of 93 years. He made Israel strong by secretly buying arms and military aircraft from the French, constructed the nuclear reactor at Dimona, which made it a nuclear weapons state, and was the Defense Minister during the daring raid on Entebbe Airport, which rescued 103 hostages. Contrast that with the conduct of our politicians. They keep our army weak, deprived of essential equipment. Every defense deal, including Bofors, has been tainted with stories of bribes. We buy junk from other countries which result in the death of our service personnel. Despite repeated attacks and despite threats of nuclear weapons against us we allow Pakistanis to work in our film industry, giving them freedom to run around India at will, and we run a Samjhauta Express between Delhi and Lahore, allowing terrorists a comfortable entry into India. Every time Pakistan attacks us we are advised by western countries not to retaliate and we bow down. Why? The same US and UK have no hesitation in killing hundreds of thousands in Iraq, Syria and Libya. What is their power over us? How did Obama threaten Modi in 2015 which resulted in a complete change of Modi's promise of a bullet for a bullet? Why is the post mortem report on Lal Bahadur Shastri still a secret? The only way India can get stronger is to publish everything, starting with the agreement between Nehru and Lord Mountbatten, everything about Indira Gandhi and how we are threatened by the west. Secrets lead to blackmail, complete honesty will make us strong. We have nothing to lose.