Re: Myth about winning 1965 War
India would have never known the details in any case. It is highly unusual for countries to have knowledge of such high level intelligence details. Despite all the improvement in sophisticated intelligence data collecting, countries would still not be able to make such acute estimation of enemy’s remaining stockpile. They defeat their enemies on the weakness of their strategies and apartment strength.
But India was 7xs the size of Pakistan, so their 80% reserve would still have been more than Pakistan’s 100% reserve. Indian would have definitely prolonged the war if it was indeed in a winning position.
It’s like Russia, despite being technically inferior to their Western European counterparts in every war, it always looked to prolong the war in a way that it preferred Western Armies knocking on Eastern borders as no one could fight in Russian winters like Russian soldiers. Russians were masters of the strategy of exhausting the enemy.