Armstrong
RETIRED TTA
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The Army had done its job right, after searchlight the insurgency had been put down and our control extended over the entire province of East Pakistan. India's direct intervention is what flipped the entire conflict over in the Bengali's favour.
Overall, it was Bhutto's failure. He should have let Mujib assume power as was his right but he had to go and act like a douche. His undying thirst for power lead him to dismember the country just so that he could become PM.
Yaraa but the failure to anticipate that - Isn't that a military failure as well ?
I remember talking to a '71 Veteran who told me how they were given, at times, surprisingly strange orders that stretched them thin against a numerically much superior Indian onslaught where they were tasked with protecting, in his words, 'every inch of East Pakistan as opposed to Key Areas or Pressure Points' as he explained it to me; at the same time the Bengalis didn't stop harrying & hounding them day & night taking pot shots at them whenever an opportunity presented itself !