Actully, both are different things.
GoI was compelled to act and it did bare minimum. It did not attack Pakistan's military. Because it knew that in full fledged war, Indian forces will not be having enough material to fight a war.
Also if GoI had told USA to *censored* itself, US did not have enough time to react. And at worst, US would have to openly support Pakistan with its miliary and that would have undermined its own interests. After conflict in which most of Pakistan's top leadership was targetted and killed, US would have negotiated peacefully because its own interests were there in working with India.
GoI chickened out becuse it had very little confidence in its forces due to its own decades of neglect. Its incompetence not pragmatic geopolitics or diplomacy.
What are you on about here? Any basis for your rationale?
There's wasn't Confidence in forces?
I don't think you realised the
significance of what we did during op sindoor yet. It wasn't strike at loc or little further than that. It was the very heart, brain, muscle.. everything of Pakistan. And it was first such operation under nuclear threshold and new generation weapons. Those terrorist bases weren't built in some outskirts of under forest areas, away from sight. They were built and run openly in the heartland of Pakistan. So, when those missiles came.. it wasn't just the terrorists that died. The idea that retaliation would be limited to borders died too. Civilian ( sympathisers+ normal person living day by day, far away from politics but supporting the state) saw missile coming and destroying camps that was just next to his city. A kind of camp that might be running in his city too, which he knows can be the next target. The realisation that his support to terrorists won't be without consequences anymore. The sheer psychological effect it likely had... it won't show it's results in a day. Pak Military and it's terrorists will be desperate. Others will be in dilemma for their safety.
Same way how non stop terrorist attacks in 90s to 2013 had on our ( common Indian people) psyche. But as a victim of agression, our psyche changed into agressive from being passive. For an agreessor, it has potential to be opposite. The only caveat is "repeated". Hence, you see all of us waiting for the response that was promised to us in May.
1971 didnt see missiles targeting cities. And this significance reflects in the reaction which USA had post the operation. It's not as if GOI didn't know that a hegemon doesn't like others to do things which only it was privy to. Contrary to what you may believe.. people in current GOI are not naive. They didn't get to the seat due to inheritance or pre prepared stage for them. They have seen the world. The worst of it.
They knew and hence you didn't see GOI being flustered like they would've been if they didn't calculate US reaction and got caught off guard. Outside of Twitter tussle.. if you just look at events as they folded.. India's position has been steady. Sure, they would've liked if PM didn't have to put statement against Trump, which was opposition was hell bent on, knowing the nature of Trump. Even then, they handled it by saying " no world leader" instead of " No Trump". Now, for those who consider pres of US as world leader, it was enough. For those who don't, they can keep living in delusion.
There are many things to point out and criticise. But dude.. after 1971, this is the first GOI that has shown confidence in our forces. And, if you wanna talk about preparedness, the first comparison needs to be between where we were heading in 2013 and the change in trajectory after it. Only a naive or narrative peddler will think that things are same. I have witnessed full UPA era and have been witnessing NDA era too.. the defense sector.. from "there's no need of border infra", " dossiers", " pak is also victim", "westland scam", " chronic deficiencies" to → ongoing Rapid buildup of border infra despite the hurdles, an industry going through overhaul in it's working, steering public sentiment towards taking defense as priority, OP sindoor. The biggest lie would be saying govt doesn't have confidence in its forces.
But having confidence doesn't mean not doing preparation either. To understand that, gotta look at 2016→2019→2025. So, criticise all you want. But not based on propaganda and lies.
Better to ask govt to increase funding for schemes like idex, liberalise the sector so more Indians can participate etc. To massively update it's Information warfare policy, SOPs, tools etc. That was the thing GOI lacked. Not the confidence in forces.
And contrary to your claim of being "compelled", Indians have seen far worse attacks and GOI doing nothing but play talk talk with terrorists.. yet GOI didn't feel " compelled" to change its policy on terror. And UPA got elected for second term after one of the biggest attacks in India.
So, what you are calling as being compelled is their own policy. A policy which stands at juncture and going a test.
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