Lessons from the IAF attack on Balakot

Dr Happymon Jacob analyses the use of Air Force by both India and Pakistan after the Pulwama terror attack. How have these recent events changed perceptions of each other's capabilities and intentions. Where will this contentious relationship go from here?

Minor correction - Unlike as stated by Dr Jacob in the video, the "surgical strikes" conducted in the aftermath of the Uri attack were in fact framed as a "pre-emptive" choice (and not as a retaliatory strike), in the official communique which read as follows:

"Based on receiving specific and credible inputs that some terrorist teams had positioned themselves at launch pads along Line of Control to carryout infiltration and conduct terrorist strikes inside Jammu and Kashmir and in various metros in other states, the Indian Army conducted surgical strikes at several of these launch pads to pre-empt infiltration by terrorists."
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