SmplCtzn
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SmplCtzn
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Just an ordinary citizen of this world thinking extraordinary is possible.



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1. Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. My latest #NationalInterest, looks at how Pakistan has historically conducted warfare with India — tactically brilliant & strategically disastrous. That’s the reason it has lost every war after beginning strongly, sometimes even spectacularly. 2. The revisionist history of every war or skirmish is a popular subcontinental phenomenon. Just that in Pakistan it’s carried out at industrial scale, school textbooks included. Take the 87-hour skirmish. All of Pakistan believes it won this round. That this was followed by Trump’s embrace was seen as an endorsement of this self-proclaimed ‘victory’. 3. Fact is, Munir had planned this. The visit of Steve Witkoff’s son Zach & the crypto deal took place just 4 days after Pahalgam & nearly 2 weeks before Op. Sindoor. When he set up Pahalgam, Munir knew India would retaliate. The killings were his tactics to draw an Indian response. To reopen the Kashmir issue, with Trump sewn up, was his strategic objective. The first worked, the second failed. 4. Let’s look at the post-Pulwama story. Since the initiative of launching a terror provocation is always with Pakistan, they knew IAF will be used for retaliation. That’s how Op. Swift Retort, involving more than 26 PAF aircraft to bait the IAF into a scrap where they didn’t have the numbers or the range, was planned & rehearsed. They’re still celebrating shooting down an IAF MiG-21. Even if that’s a tactical plus, strategically, Indian deterrence lasted 7 years. Until Pahalgam. 5. The same story has played out earlier. Op. Gibraltar (about 10,000 regulars in mufti infiltrated the Kashmir Valley), followed by Op. Grand Slam to take Chhamb, then Akhnoor, cut off Kashmir & grab it with ease. Tactically, this was brilliant but somebody in Pakistani GHQ had to be extraordinarily dumb to think India would simply keel over & not expand the war to the Punjab plains. 6. Whatever the reality of Op. Sindoor, the Pakistanis have taken the wrong lessons from it. This will be compounded by the delusions of a rising diplomatic stature. India has to keep that in mind & anticipate a new provocation earlier than what we may have imagined 6 months back. Read #NationalInterest: theprint.in/national-inter… Watch #NationalInterest:  youtube.com/watch?v=u-A-dc…





Modern Day Pakistan and my village! Run away you ganges freaks Taxila, Pakistan
























