Oh ho ho this was discussed in this forum a lot like a lot lot.
While everyone was happy we took action a lot of people did feel we should have done more.
As for your question.
India had played it's cards very well.
The whole nation was in a state of mourning this was one of the deadliest attacks our army has faced news channels and newspapers were debating every single day on what action we are going to take.
No one dared to talk about peace and de-escalation.
Modi already had strengthened his reputation as a strongman who won't tolerate such shit after uri strikes the international community couldn't say much at all even china was quiet all the time.
Then the Strikes happened at the start GOI played it's cards very well strikes happened whole nation went into celebration mode but at the same time the whole nation expected an counterattack.
The international community while shocked was unable to do much thanks to MEA and GOI's careful wording terror camps nothing else
Our attack was an attack of self defense against terrorists not against pakistan.
And then India got the biggest opportunity after so many years pakistan had tried to counterattack they had tried to hit our military installations which was a declaration of war they had attacked our jets.
You see the difference here our response was totally contained to terrorist's while they had attacked our military.
India should have then and their said look these guys have now escalated we have been provoked and we don't care about your opinions anymore.
We should have nailed pakistan then and there but instead we all know what happened and the PR disaster that followed.
India could claim a victory to its public but in strategic terms it was a lost opportunity pakistan was at its worst at that point no one supported them even china was hesitant they had no justification whatsoever but we let it go.
It was like a chess game everything was perfect until that one blunder.
While the strikes were a great step and a remarkable show of force by us In the end very little changed on the ground infact they even planned similar attacks the past month.
We did surgical strike with the objectives. And we completely full filed them in our strikes by imposing cost on Pakistani for terrorist attack and calling of nuclear bluff.
When Pakistan attacked next morning okay it was a reaction and don't mind me but fact remains whenever you do something against Pakistan they will react anyway how many casualties we had? How much loss of infrastructure we faced the piss poor condition of Pakistan was already visible when they claimed that non of the bomb hit the military institution because we didn't aimed them. And even on that day Pakistan was intercepted and tackled.
And Pakistan returned our POW under 24 hours.
So what objective we had after that?
Nothing we waited and removed article 370 which was stopping us from perusing our goals what Pakistan did? Did they invaded india they just cried.
Sorry to burst the bubble but india never had the objective to reclaim the POK when surgical strikes happened.
War's are fought on the basis of objectives without objective we can never win the war.
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