Operation Desert Hawk: Difference between revisions

| result            = Pakistani victory<ref>Chakravorty, B.C, D. Phil. "History of the Indo-Pak War, 1965." phpisn.ethz.ch, 1992, https://phpisn.ethz.ch/lory1.ethz.ch/collections/coll\\_india/documents/1965Chapter02.pdf. Accessed 24 Nov. 2023.

"In sum, for India the Kutch Operation was a wrong war with the right enemy, at a wrong place (74). For Pakistan, it was a victorious war, out of which it learnt a wrong lesson that it could win a cake-walk victory in Kashmir. This fake sense of victory whetted Pakistani appetite for Kashmir. This led to the September War ultimately" "There was no higher plan to meet the Pak attack, nor any prior preparation for the operations in the Rann. Local commanders chose their own objectives(64). In April 1965 Indian forces were not at all prepared to take on Pakistan(65)"</ref><ref>Hiro, Dilip (24 February 2015). The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan. Nation Books, Hiro. OPERATION DESERT HAWK: A DRY RUN. ISBN 9781568585031. Retrieved 22 November 2023.</ref>

*Pakistan seizes posts along the Kanjarkot Stretch<ref>McGarr, Paul M., ed. "Triumph and tragedy: the Rann of Kutch and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War." The Cold War in South Asia: Britain, the United States and the Indian Subcontinent, 1945–1965, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 301–344, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cold-war-in-south-asia/triumph-and-tragedy/910E410121641DFE773BC5126C326892. Accessed 21 Nov. 2023.</ref>

*Ceasefire Agreement signed by both India & Pakistan<ref>Hiro, Dilip (24 February 2015). The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan. Nation Books, Hiro. OPERATION DESERT HAWK: A DRY RUN. ISBN 9781568585031. Retrieved 19 October 2016.

""The Pakistan Army’s offensive, led by armored regiments equipped with Patton tanks newly acquired from the U.S., made substantial gains before a Great Britain-led initiative brokered a temporary truce"</ref><ref>Dutt, Sagarika; Bansal, Alok (2013-06-17) (in en). South Asian Security: 21st Century Discourses. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-61767-6.</ref>

*Both sides agree to withdraw troops from disputed and occupied territories<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20210824155244/https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/rann-of-kutch.htm</ref>

*Further deescalation of Indo-Pakistani ties lead to the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]]<ref>Yamin, Tughral (2012). "An appreciation of the Pakistani military thought process". Strategic Studies. 32 (2/3): 123. ISSN 1029-0990. JSTOR 48529363.</ref>

The Pakistan Army decision makers assessed the Indian Army's strength and capability based on the Decesive success in the Rann of Kutch area and headed towards their next planned execution of [[Operation Gibraltar]] in August 1965.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yamin |first=Tughral |date=2012 |title=An appreciation of the Pakistani military thought process |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48529363 |journal=Strategic Studies |volume=32 |issue=2/3 |pages=123 |jstor=48529363 |issn=1029-0990}}</ref>