60 Years of Indecision

On this day of 60^th birthday of Nation’s
Independence – I decided to collate some of the wars the India had and what we
lost after winning them…

Wars/engagement	What army got	What politicos negotiated
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947	Saved and retrieved most of the valley. Kargil had fallen. Shardu was about to be over run, Gilgit was in reach	Nehru got ceasefire for he cannot withstand the loss of lives of his fellow Kashmiries
Sino-Indian War	Killed in action 3,128	Championship award for peace  SHOULD BE AWARDED TO NEHRU - Btw ANYONE KNOWS HOW NEHRU DIED?
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965	Got them Lahore	Returned much of hard won Punjab and failed to solve Kashmir.
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971	Got the entire East Pakistan with 93,000 POWs	Failed in Shimla to resolve Kashmir with 93,000 POWs…. Don’t know what else Indian Gandhi Needed to bargain… may be we should have send an MBA from FMCG sector to bargain
IPKF ops 87-90	Won Jafna, 1100 Indian Soldiers died to defeat LTTE	Srilankan President asking IPKF to be withdrawn or be treated as Invaders – that when total Srilanka Army was at 28,000 and India had 100,000 peace keepers
Kargil War	Army lost positions and had to deploy 2 divisions to deal with three Pakistani regiments	At last Politicos rose to call – it was Indian Diplomacy that forced Pakistan not to reinforce the 3 regiments