1) Pakistan firstly attacked kashmir and reached well inside. King asked for indian help due to which indian troops landed in kashmir first time. Otherwise, Kashmir was not a part of india pre 47 but pakistani attack on kashmir made it. if such a land grab is pakistani win then what abt indian land grab ? bigger win ?
2) India never wanted an inch of pakistan. if india intruded lahore, its because of releasing pressure on kashmir. Its does not mean india wanted pakistani territory.
Another reason is lack of communication b/s govt n military of india. They were not sure abt ammunition stock they had. if you celebrate it as defence day for defending lahore, then india shud also do so for defendnig kashmir. Conclusion is-> Pakistan never met its objectives so failed and india never had any objective.
3) Pakistan intruded in kargil because there were no indian troops in kargil. Post's were vacant as they used to be as per tradition. Musharaf only decided to vacate kargil because their supply lines were bombed by IAF and pakistan was in no position to continue war. Another is, vajpayee warned clinton about opening of another front by I.A if pakistan dont go back, means attacking punjab border. Again pakistani objectives were never met.
What wud india do by invading pakistan ? If india had some intention, its abt pakistani kashmir. Why wud india want a hostile muslim population inside it ? Dont sell this theory of invasion.
4) Pakistan was not in any position to dictate india in 71 war or after. We cud easily invade east pakistan or ask for anything in the exchange of 90k POW's but din't. Indira wanted to attack west pakistan but U.S-Russia made sure that it never happens.
Pls dont bring this theory of outnumbered, 6 times smaller. if you have this in mind, then dont start a war.
In its October 1965 issue, the
TIME magazine quoted a Western official assessing the consequences of the war
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Now it's apparent to everybody that India is going to emerge as an Asian power in its own right.
In his book
"War in the modern world since 1815", noted war historian
Jeremy Black said that though Pakistan "lost heavily" during the 1965 war, India's hasty decision to call for negotiations prevented further considerable damage to the Pakistan Armed Forces. He elaborates
[160] —
India's chief of army staff urged negotiations on the ground that they were running out ammunition and their number of tanks had become seriously depleted. In fact, the army had used less than 15% of its ammunition compared to Pakistan, which had consumed closer to 80 percent and India had double the number of serviceable tanks.
In 2015,
Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, the last surviving armed force commander of the conflict, gave his assessment that the war ended in a stalemate, but only due to international pressure for a ceasefire, and that India would have achieved a decisive victory had hostilities continued for a few days more:
[161]
For political reasons, Pakistan claims victory in the 1965 war. In my opinion, the war ended in a kind of stalemate. We were in a position of strength. Had the war continued for a few more days, we would have gained a decisive victory. I advised then prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri not to agree for ceasefire. But I think he was under pressure from the United Nations and some countries.
However, the Pakistani government was accused by foreign analysts of spreading disinformation among its citizens regarding the actual consequences of the war.
[168] In his book "
Mainsprings of Indian and Pakistani foreign policies", S.M. Burke writes
[119] —
After the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 the balance of military power had decisively shifted in favor of India. Pakistan had found it difficult to replace the heavy equipment lost during that conflict while her adversary, despite her economic and political problems, had been determinedly building up her strength.
There are mixed reactions abt both sides in case of 65 war. Go and see the speech of bhutto in U.S where he was screaming and did a walk out. why ? Pakistan wan winning war ?