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Lt Gen Davinder Kumar 73 Prakash Nanda Senior Foreign Policy Analyst SPECTRE OF CHINA’S ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS Prof Swaran Singh & Dr Lilian Yamamoto 78 Vice Admiral Rajeshwer Nath CHINA’S GAME OF TERRITORIAL CLAIMS Vice Adm BS Randhawa Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee 83 Former Chief of Material and Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition, Indian Navy AEROspaCE AND DEFENCE NEWS Priya Tyagi 89 Amitabha Roychowdhury Associate Editor, Press Trust of India THE DRAGon’S ADVENTURES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN Vice Admiral Anup Singh 104 Ramananda Sengupta Foreign and Strategic Affairs Analyst INFLUENCE OF AERIAL COMBAT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES Kanwal Sibal Artsrun Hovhannisyan 110 Former Foreign Secretary of India FIFTY YEARS SINCE HAJI PIR Vice Admiral Anup Singh Special Correspondent 115 THE MIDDLE EAST: An Assessment Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja 121 Cover Photograph: CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE HIMALAYAS: A Ticking Time-Bomb? 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How INDO-PAK WAR 1965 is victory measured – by the political objectives achieved, Are Commemorations Due? or territory captured or by equipment and wherewithal destroyed and captured or by tactical and operational level military victory? One needs to dispassionately analyse these to come to a conclusion. Ever since Partition, even though Jammu and Kashmir was the main bone of contention, other border disputes existed. Early in 1965, Pakistan began by trying to resolve one of these in the Rann of Kutch. During Partition, Pakistan contested the alignment of the Southern boundary of its province of Sindh with the Northern alignment of the boundary of Kutch – two princely states prior to Independence. The contest first arose in 1956 which ended with India regaining control over the disputed area. This area is inhospitable, a salty lowland, rich in natural gas. Pakistan’s border patrols began foraying into territory controlled by India in January 1965 which was followed by attacks by both countries on each other’s posts on April 08, 1965. Initially, these operations were conducted by the Border Police of both nations but soon escalated to intermittent skirmishes between the armed forces. In June 1965, the British Prime ...a limited war to wrest Minister Harold Wilson successfully persuaded both Kashmir was likely to countries to end hostilities and set up an international tribunal under the aegis of the UN to resolve the dispute. bear fruit before India A verdict was reached in 1968, much after the war, which had completed full gave Pakistan ten per cent (910 sq. km.) of its claim and 90 augmentation of its per cent (8,190 sq. km.) awarded to India. forces in the wake of Why did Pakistan initiate action in Kutch? India had suffered a major rout at the hands of the Chinese in the 1962 debacle. November 1962. Consequently, there was a substantial augmentation of the armed forces undertaken in a phased manner. Increase in manpower is only one aspect; the induction of equipment, individual training, battle inoculation and collective training at formation level are essential prerequisites to formulate battle drills and procedures.