Re: Myth about winning 1965 War
Obviously they didn’t want to keep Lahore or Sialkot. Americans didnt want to keep Baghdad or Kabul, but that wasnt the point. Indians obviously wanted something, otherwise they wouldn’t have sent their soldiers across the border towards these cities. I dont think all those armed soldiers and tanks were sent over the border for lunch in some Lahori restaurant.
And clearly the Pakistanis didnt simply give it to them as you claim they always do, otherwise the Indians wouldnt have been forced to retreat.
And again 1971, i dont think they had choice but to surrender. There were no reinforcements, supply lines were cut, there was no place to retreat to… Unless you expect all those soldiers to sacrifice their life for a territory which they by then had clearly lost, there is no point in continuing the fight.