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* Contemporary perspective on the savage and bitter battle of attrition between India and Pakistan The Indo-Pak Conflict of 1965, was short and brutal, packed with intense activity, major movement, heavy fighting and crucial decisions. The initiative rested with Pakistan to commence hostilities, which they did with a mix of irregular and regular troops and tactics. This is a story of anticipation, of impending actions, of virtual equality of forces engaged in a savage battle of attrition in which no quarters were given or asked. The author, Lt Gen Harbakhsh Singh, was a GOC-in-C Western Command during those fateful days provided an essential element of higher command, an unflappable presence under whose command the Army imposed unacceptable levels of losses on the enemy, first toning down their rhetoric, then their confidence, and lastly their ability to sustain very high levels of material losses. There is very little material or records to drawn upon for our military studies of warfare in and around the Indian subcontinent. War Despatches narrates for the first time the inside story through original despatched filed by the Army Commander from the war zone. To maintain the authenticity of the Despatches, the military style of writing has been followed in the text as far as possible.

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Lt Gen Harbakhsh Singh was a senior officer in the Indian army. After joining the India Military Academy in 1933, he ascended through the ranks, becoming GOC-in-C of the Western Command in 1964. His involvement in the Indo-Pakistani Conflict of 1965 is just one event in his long and successful military career, which saw him decorated with the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Vir Chakra. He retired in 1969 and died in 1999.

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