See!!This is the reason I generally tend to avoid these sort of threads because after a certain time,they turn into stupid d!ck measuring contests more often than not.
First of all,Pakistan Army had about 300k active troops back in 65.And the 700k numbers for the IA is totally misleading since Indian Army was going through a big expansion and when the hostilities began,the process wasn't even nearly complete!!A big number of the Indian formations that took part in the war were neither properly trained nor equipped!!Many formations were inexperienced and their trainings were not completed.
And besides,even if we take your numbers to be true,there is no way Indian infantry could have outnumbered their Pakistani counterparts by more than 2 to 1 because the most well equipped and well trained formations of the Indian Army,namely 10 odd numbers of mountain divisions (about 1/3 rd of then Indian Army) did not take part in that war,who were deployed along the LAC since the wound of 1962 debacle was still very fresh into our minds!!So they were never committed into the war!!But of course you wouldn't know that and I don't blame you either!!How would you know when your ruling elites have more or less rewritten the history and fed it to you guys for their own vested interests.
True if you compare them from an absolute numbers' pov.But did you ever stop to think for once,about what were the models of tanks available to both sides at the start of war??Lets see - The Pakistani Army had somewhere between 3500-420 M47 and M 48 Patton tanks and the rests were late model M4 Shermans,armed with a 76 mm high velocity gun.On the other hand,Indian Army had 188 Centurion MkIXs,some 300 early model M4 Shermans with the original short barreled 75mm guns with lower velocity and a large number of AMX 17s which could not even be considered as a true tank with enough protection just aga9inst small arms rounds and some artillery fragments!!So there goes your theory about a super advanced Indian Army.
Again,a half truth only!!The quality of the Pakistani Army artillery was far better compared to what was available to Indian Army.All we had back then were just 105mm and 122mm guns (and 75mm pack howitzers of course)which neither had the range nor the punch of the 155mm and 209mm Pakistani Army artillery guns!!So again,as is quite well known,Pakistani Army had enjoyed significant advantage over their Indian counterparts in terms of training,artillery and armor - which are three of the most crucial things in any campaign.Besides,Pakistan Army also enjoyed significant advantage in terms of transportation and communication equipments!!So I ask you again - how on earth you came to the above conclusion??
Sure Sure,why not??I got to be a bigot since I speak the truth!!Nice logic you have got there.
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And thanks by the way.
