An army book by defence analyst Nitin Gokhale assessing the 1965 war says that India won the war against Pakistan.
As we near the 50th anniversary of the 1965 war, a new book titled 1965, Turning the Tide: How India Won the War written by defence analyst Nitin Gokhale has revealed details which prove that India was the victor after all, reports a leading daily.
Pakistan, since the war has celebrated September 6 as the 'Defence of Pakistan Day' claiming that they won the war although analysis showed that the war ended in a draw. But that fact has now been challenged with the statistics stated in the book, which is a part of the defence ministry's project to rewrite the history of all major wars and operations that were carried out by the armed forces.
.Quoting the statistics from the book, the report said that India had lost only 540 sq km of its own land while capturing 1,920 sq km of the Pakistani land. And while India lost less than 100 tanks, Pakistan had lost over 450 tanks. The book also has the then Defence Minister Y B Chavan's statement in Rajya Sabha saying that India had lost 2,862 soldiers while Pakistan had lost 5,800. But because Pakistan says that they lost only 1,033 soldiers in the war, the figures cannot be verified.
The daily said that the book also explains Pakistan's failure of operations during the war, like the then President Ayub Khan's attempt to separate Kashmir Valley from India, which as a concept seemed great but faltered in its execution. A quote from the book explains the incident saying that "Finally , Pakistan's last shot at glory by sending its much-touted 1 Armoured Division into Khem Karan came a cropper... In the end, the so called glorious war planned by Ayub turned into a military-politico-diplomatic defeat for Pakistan".
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the war, the book will be released on September 1.
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