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The famous Indian Territory, Kargil, commands a well-known claim to fame – owing to the year 1999- when India and Pakistan, two nuclear states, fought their limited and last war in the barren Himalayan peaks – splendid high altitude warfare. The glorified year witnessed Pakistani military intruding the Indian side of the de facto border, the LoC, a war that lasted 74 days and claimed greater than 1000 lives and concluded with India heralding victory and worldwide respect. India had successfully established itself a nuclear state in 1974, while Pakistan had been testing secretly and conducted its first official test in 1998. It is widely vouched that Pakistan’s freshly nurtured nuclear abilities encouraged it to afloat what later became the Kargil war in 1999 and that’s what curbed India to respond to the attack.

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India’s first decisive military victory came in the Indo-Pak war of 1971 when the Indian Army ‘liberated’ East Pakistan from the tyrannical oppressive rule of West Pakistan and created Bangladesh. It was the coming of age for the young nation which showed unsurmountable determination and unshakeable will power. The Indo-Pak war of 1971 changed the geography of the subcontinent and established India as the regional hegemon.

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In the summers of 1965, two nations formed out of the ruins of one met each other on the battlefields of northwestern India in the very famous Indo-Pak War. The Indian economy was not in good shape at that time due to the rising food prices. The man who shaped the nation as we know it today, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, had left a power vacuum to be filled after his death. India was still licking its wounds from the Sino-Indo war of 1962. Pessimism was in the air when Lal Bahadur Shastri took over Nehru’s seat. At that time, India was spending 28% of its GDP on defense and was facing political pressure to spend heavily on nuclear tests.

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