Now the Modi administration wants Sindoor 2.0 so that both misadventures can be cremated in a single pyre.

Meanwhile, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in his delusional and dangerously revisionist remarks, has uttered that "Sindh will always be a part of India — borders can change — tomorrow Sindh may return to India again." Top Indian officials have been uttering such gibberish since their May defeat, but Pakistan cannot simply overlook a mad elephant trampling in fury right next door. The fury can very well be the bugle call for war!

So, the two states are currently in a race; not particularly an arms-race, rather a race for structural enhancement in their forces, so that in a coming conflict they are better equipped to fight a 6th Generation War.

As early as in July, India announced new Rudra Brigades, a combination of infantry, armor, artillery, special forces and unmanned aerial systems; and Bhairav Battalions, composed of agile and lethal Light Commandos. Both these structures will be deployed along the China and Pakistan borders with enhanced future-oriented combat readiness.

The problem is that these brigades and battalions will only give tactical enhancement to the Indian Forces, meaning that they will be better equipped to destroy and defeat enemy formations, seize terrain or protect units, in direct combat. But in the May War, tactical encounters were only a backdrop, while the real battle inflicted by the Pakistani Forces upon India was a theater-level, multi-domain, beyond-visual-range, operational-level, 6GW.

Pakistan multidomain operations........

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