yamaha bhai,
No need to weave things together where there are none. Let’s avoid conspiratorial stuff about ZH.
Here is a simple description of brass tacks. You can read more on wiki.
Brass tacks is an object used in the expression “get down to brass tacks”. The expression usually means clearing out confusing details and finding out the real facts about something.
Brass tacks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Go back to the description of the term “brass tacks” on wiki and you will understand that Indian military was trying to “clarify their operational strategy” by conducting “brass tacks”.
This is a general expression. And one can seriously doubt that there is a link between ZH and Indian army exercise so many years ago.
This is the biggest misconception by Indians about the “strategic depth” concept.
No you cannot attack Indian army once you lose the mainland Pakistan (Allah maaf keray).
Pakistan army cannot attack back from Afghanistan. There are only few passes that are wide enough to let large scale invasion of modern day. We are not living in the time when armies used horses and donkeys.
Secondly, Afghanistan is a land locked country and all its supplies go through Pakistan. Once these land routes are cut, anyone sitting in Afghanistan is just a “sitting duck”.
In reality the object is relatively simply.
Keep up dirty hands of Indians out of Afghanistan so that “Indians cannot use Afghanistan” to stir up trouble in FATA and Frontier.
Right now USA is not allowing Indians, Iranians, and Russians to operate freely along Afghanistan’s Eastern borders, and thus it was relatively easy for Pak army to wipe out Talibots from most of the FATA and Swat.
In reality Pak army’s objective is relatively simple.
Keep the dirty hands of Indians out of Afghanistan so that “Indians cannot use Afghanistan” to stir up trouble in FATA and Frontier.
Right now the presence of USA and NATO troops, is not allowing Indians, Iranians, and Russians to operate freely along Afghanistan’s Eastern borders, and thus it was relatively easy for Pak army to wipe out Talibots from most of the FATA and Swat.
That’s all.