Russian President Vladimir Putin thought so. Israeli PM Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu believed it. And, in his inimitable style, US President Donald Trump had already promised to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages”. It was a set paradigm that modern wars would be short and decisive yet intense. It was a set fundamental belief that military strategists of every major country believed in, including India. Accordingly, military doctrines were devised on that assumption. To cite an instance. Till 1999, India’s War Wastage Reserves (WWR)—the reserve of ammunition to meet the requirements of intense war or a full-scale war for the…
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