Except yours is a very simplistic view. Born out of nothing except the single point desire to show Pakistan as an equal to India.
This is where you indians are in your own fantasy world. There is no "equality" in case of Indo-Pak because for obvious size difference. However, nobody is trying to be equal to india lol..
What you don't understand is that India and Pakistan is in similar league. United States, for example, is a LEAGUE APART than india, Pakistan, and even China as of now.
Russia and China are a league apart than india and Pakistan. india and Pakistan are not in a different league (Irrespective of what gullible, insecure indians would like to believe). Is india more power than Pakistan? Yes. Does india lead Pakistan in *some* fields? Yes, but so does Pakistan. But overall--in terms of military quality, weapon systems, and capabilities---both india and Pakistan are in pretty same league.
Your generals know it too and we see it on daily basis--where both india and Pakistan inflict similar amount of damages on each other via insurgencies, cross border raiders, skirmishes on LoC and what not.
The difference of being "leagues" apart is clearly revealed when U.S and Pakistan face off due to U.S drone strikes. Our options against them are limited and we can not respond in similar fashion--because they are indeed LEAGUES apart than us.
Hopefully that explains a little bit of the reality as we see it.
We don't need to show Pakistan as an equal to india--Pakistan is ALREADY an equal to india (not in terms of having same amount of military power--india leads offcourse due to bigger size and military, but being in the same military capability league as india). And again, we have seen this military equality being played out on borders for decades now.
Believe me, if it was Russia on our borders--there wouldn't be any equality of response as we see in india-Pakistan case
Hopefully you get the point...
Here's another hint: If india was indeed a league above us, it would totally dominate the military escalation ladder and coerce Pakistan to submit during various stand offs, in the after math of 2008 Mumbai attacks, and recently fallout of Uri attacks.
We both know how that played out. No side was able to completely dominate the other side militarily and status-quo remained (irrespective of rhetoric).
Now imagine Pakistan trying to maintain the escalation ladder with the U.S or Russia etc. LOL, not a chance.
But offcourse, according to indian gullible fanboys wetdreams, india is leagues apart than Pakistan and decisively more powerful militarily belonging to a completely different league of global power strata
Your thinking is limited to tanks, jets, ballistic missiles and in Pakistan's case Diesel powered submarines (SSK) armed with nuclear payload capable cruise missiles. These do not make a Great Military power unless you also couple it with
1. Strategic lift capabilities - Sea/Air/Land
2. Mechanized and heli lifted Exped forces of a certain size
There is a reason India is investing in LPD's, Aircraft Carriers, nuclear(propulsion) boats, AAW destroyers, floating docks or an entire expeditionary Corps(we are calling it by other names obviously).
All good an dandy to write about, but what india is building is not a global force, but rather an effort to be able to withstand China's might. Furthermore, expeditionary forces are built with a purpose in mind. For example, U.S has the military to be able to fight theatre level conflicts across multiple continents at the same time. india has literally no such plans nor the worldview. Why would you need the expeditionary force? To fight Somalia? lols..
Lets be real and not kid ourselves--even with ALL the plans india currently has becoming 100% operational with full effect, india would not be a country that would be able to fight any sustained conflict in Latin Americas, or Middle-East, or Europe etc. It would, at best, be able to withstand China in a regional, conventional war...
They are practically redundant against Pakistan seeing as Pakistan is India's immediate neighbour. Therefore, there must be a reason why India is building these at obnoxious costs.
China. Not global, but China..lets not kid ourselves here..
None of these things are being purchased or built by Pakistan now or even on their horizon in their near future. The reason is simple - cost.
Pakistan does not need any of these to fight a war against India. Pakistan would like to have them IF they could afford it. They simply can't.
Pakistan's primary focus will remain india and we have build enough military strength to effectively choke any indian thought of a major military conflict with us. All we have to do is to maintain this.
india, too, will find a similar status-quo against China soon enough (hence all the military investment etc).
Moreover, Pakistan has had a far bigger military role in International arena compared to india, which never played any major military role outside of its immediate borders.
Pakistan directly participated in Arab-Israel conflict, maintained a
brigade level military presence across middle East (Jordan, Saudi Arabia etc), was directly involved against Soviet Union with its forces, planners, logistics, and fighters. Hell, we even intervened directly in a European conflict whereby our military airlifted weapons to Muslim forces in Bosnia to slow down the genocidal assaults of Serbians (Bosnia and Serjivo are Muslim majority European nations and beautiful cities today, btw. And we played a role in that
directly.International court actually charged one of our Brigade Commander as well for his role in the conflict, lol). And offcourse, our special forces, ammunition, and training were on the ground in Sri Lanka when they finally crushed LTTE...
india, despite being bigger in size, has no way near the level of global military role as Pakistan has had uptil now. I am not talking about few tactical operations such as freeing hostage or what have you (Pakistan has a huge list of those!)--I am talking about having significant and sustained military presence and engagements thousands of miles away from one's borders in completely different environments.
Israel has all the requisite things you mention - Tanks, SSK Submarines with nuclear tipped cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, jets, an entire country of military reserves at its beck and all. Furthermore, it is extremely well entrenched in global trade landscape and absolutely invaluable in cutting edge tech and research. Yet it is not a Global military power.
Yes, Israel is not a great military power but it would have been had it's standing military was 850,000 and not 170k...
Anyways I feel we are going in circles now..so whatever.
