'48 - Kashmir is an Integral part of India ! Pakistan controls 37% of it with India controlling 43% (6% more !)
I've talked to them Waziristani people & you've got no idea how much they curse the army for falling for Nehru's Ceasefire BS ! We could have got more.
'64 - Pakistan starts Operation Gibraltar; India's reply : Tea at Gymkhana ! End result - Ceasefire !
'71 - Pakistani soldiers are a 1000 kms away from their nearest base, fighting a civil war for months at a stretch backed up by yours truly & then war breaks out ! Manekshaw wasn't being cute when he said 'they had no chance of winning, we outnumbered them 1-15, they were a 1000 kms away from their nearest base & I had 9 months to prepare for it' !
We lost...we lost big time ! But we did learn our lessons & our flank has never been exposed again..not even during the height of the Afghan War (s) !
'99 - God knows what the objectives were for that ! But End Result - Ceasefire !
'02, Mumbai & even Kargil - Military Stand-offs, posturing but at the end 'measured response' by the Indian Armed Forces to go back to the barracks & deescalate hostilities ! A euphemism for 'Pakistani Army isn't backing down from the borders either' !
Wheres the win & where the loss ?
Well we did take more square miles of it & we may have killed more of their boys & taken out more of their equipment & yes they're lying when they dispute that !
Okay what did we do afterwards ?
We handed them back because a ceasefire was signed !