PRUSSIAN General and strategist Carl von Clausewitz’s dictum, “War is the continuation of politics by other means” was demonstrated from 6/7th May to 10th May 2025, during the four days war between Pakistan and India.

Both the nuclear armed neighbours entered into the conflict with stark opposite objectives. In a competition between arrogance and resilience, India attempted to set a new normal while Pakistan vehemently denied it.

Interestingly, till 6th May 2025, Pakistan appeared to be struggling to establish its mark on the global geopolitical and geostrategic arenas. The ball to favourable transformation of regional and global geopolitical environment was set rolling right on the onset (between the night of 6th and 7th May 2025) when India lost its military pride to the daring air warriors of Pakistan Air Force (PAF). In fact, it was the continuation of PAF‘s historic professional ascendancy over the Indian Air Force (IAF). During the next four days of war, IAF was grounded and PAF consolidated its superiority by destroying BrahMos storage depots, S-400 sites and neutralizing a number of IAF Air Bases.

In modern-day warfare, it was a huge and unprecedented victory that transpired into multitier effects across a number of geopolitical and geostrategic domains for both Pakistan and India. To count a few for India; (i) notion of invincibility was shattered; (ii) false sense of security defeated; (iii) national narrative of strong man got eroded; (iv) technological, military, interoperability and information........

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