Lesson learnt and unlearnt from Kargil war

Twenty-three years ago, this day, the Indian Armed Forces declared victory after driving out the intruding Pakistan regular army along with jihadist mercenaries from the heights in Kargil. The military plan of then Pakistan Army General Pervez Musharraf, who currently is hospitalized in Dubai, and his chief of General Staff Mohammed Aziz was audacious and premised on the notion that the Indian Army under the leadership of then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee would not retaliate as this could lead to full-fledged nuclear confrontation between two newly declared nuclear weapon states. Pakistan lost the war the day the Indian Cabinet Committee on Security headed by then PM Vajpayee ordered the Indian Armed Forces to throw out the Pakistani intruders in May 1999. While the brave Indian officers and men of the Indian Army with force multipliers of the Indian Air force and the Indian Navy wrested every inch of territory on the glaciated heights of Kargil from the Pakistani intruders with their blood, the then PM Vajpayee invited the then Pakistani dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf for a bilateral dialogue at Agra in July 2001.