DeansMusings

Six weeks after operation Sindhoor, the narrative in India, is still about how many aircraft India lost, ignoring weather or not the primary and secondary objectives of Operation Sindhoor were met, or how many aircraft Pak may have lost. I have covered this in some detail in my earlier post on Operation Sindhoor. https://rpdeans.blogspot.com/2025/05/operation-sindhoor-what-we-dont-realise.html Suffice to say that what matters in a battle is weather the objectives were met. A secondary consideration, is the cost – both human and material, in achieving that objective. Our objective was the destruction of 9 terrorist facilities. That was done, with a heavy loss of life among the terrorists and supporters, with no human loss on our side. Pakistan’s objective, which was to either deter us from attacking, or, if India did attack, either clear people from the targets and/or defend against the aircraft and missiles sent against them. That failed.   The secondary objective of India was...

  5 years ago, I had completed by book `2022. India’s two front war'. https://www.amazon.in/2022-Indias-two-front-war-ebook/dp/B07Q29P3M1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZV4GF4U6FTTC&keywords=2022+india%27s+two+front+war&qid=1686912258&sprefix=2022+india%27s+two+front+war%2Caps%2C245&sr=8-1 The book was about a fictional war that India fights with China and Pakistan in Oct 22. It was not a genre that had publisher interest, so I had to self-publish it on Kindle in Mar 19. I thought it useful, 5 years later to see how much of the book, written 4 years before events, was realistic.   The book was the only one as far as I know that had the exact order of battle (ORBAT) of the Indian, Chinese and Pakistani armed forces and had all army formations accounted for on each day of the war. Though 500+ pages, it took me more time researching it that writing. Not being from the armed forces, I could research topics with an open mind and also travel to some of the places in the book, to...