The 2025 India-Pakistan air battle: Lessons for the Philippines

First of two parts IF the Philippines is observant and smart, it can learn many lessons from other countries’ armed conflicts. Lessons that are worth billions of dollars to teach, so to speak, and paid for with other people’s lives, instead of Filipinos’. The May 2025 large-scale air battle between India and Pakistan — the world’s largest in two decades, where both countries each claimed victory — is one such conflict, offering many lessons, the most important of which is at the end of this column, which concludes next Sunday. India claimed it had launched its “Sindoor” attack on Pakistan…