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Surgical strikes achieve tactical closure, not strategic detente: Former NATGRID CEO Military power is never about the number of troops, tanks, ships or aircrafts. If military power was all a country needed to establish superiority, America would not have been beaten by Vietnam, the Soviet Union would not have been routed by Afghan tribes and the juggernaut that is the   Indian Army   would not have been held at bay by a few thousand Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. A country’s military power is actually determined by a combination of economic realities, governance frameworks, national will and strategic thinking – which work together to deliver a punch worthy of its weight. Comparing India’s military power to Pakistan’s from this perspective actually yields a startling conclusion. In 1999, Pakistan’s army chief at the time was mid-air when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif decided to sack him.   Surgical Strikes   Denied permission to land in Pakistan and faced with...

Nawaz Sharif's UNGA speech: Top 10 things he said and India's rebuttals to his accusations Pakistan Prime Minister   Nawaz Sharif   raked up the Kashmir issue at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday and tried to burnish his country's credentials as an opponent of global terrorism. His speech, which also referred to the prevailing situation in Europe and the Middle East, attempted to paint India as an uncooperative neighbour which had rebuffed Sahrif's overtures for peace. His speech came days after suspected Pakistan-based terrorists attacked an Indian army camp in Uri, in Kashmir, and killed 18 Indian soldiers. The four terrorists who participated in the attack were also eliminated by the security forces during the attack. ALSO READ:   Pak PM Sharif should have talked about Balochistan not Kashmir: Baloch activist India for its part reacted very strongly to the Pakistani prime minister's speech, calling it an act of "self-incrimination" on t...