Shehryar Ashraf
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the shock of 71 has sadly traumatized military thinking. they are too afraid to start an open conflict. thats from where the doctrine shifted from an offensive one, towards hiding behind the threat of nuclear conflict.The generals have no stomach for open conflict anymore. They are content with having the ill-equipped soldiers fight (and die, in droves) ragtag militants sporting AK-47s (now also snipers with thermal scopes). Beyond criminal to not have weaponized the angst of the Indian Muslim. Opportunities to destabilize India have never been so plentiful, and the will on this side to do so never so lacking. All points to the weakness of the leaders this country has today (both political and military). The unfortunate thing on the political front is that the policy of unending appeasement of India has never ceased there and it never would. One wonders whether the military is capable of breeding generals who took the initiative once anymore or not.
The military,as you say, is not capable of producing competent generals. it never was though. Ayub Khan, and Yahya, cannot be considered competent by any metric. Zia was all bluster, and lost Siachen during his tenure. Should have gone to war when Khalistan was at its peak, and the americans needed pakistan to kick out the soviets from afghanistan.