Question for military analysts:
Except for the "Liberation of Goa" in 1960, why does India accept a ceasefire in all conflicts it has fought with non-peer adversaries, and never destroys or weakens an adversary permanently?
Additionally, why doesn't India fight a protracted war against a peer adversary without calling for assistance ?
1. India begged the Soviet Union for assistance when the USA despatched the US Seventh Fleet to the Bay of Bengal in December 1971
2. India begged the USA for air support during its conflict with China in 1962.
Anyone got answers.
There is a partial answer that lies in India's history.
Except for the successful ( and bloody) defense against the Mongol invasions in the late 13th and early fourteenth century, India has never won a war against a foreign invasion.
India has never had in its history a "turning point event" like a revolution, a nation defining civil war, or an epic bloody battle or long protracted war that included a people's resistance.
India has never had a Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Gallipoli, Verdun, Guadalcanal, Nanking, like battles in any wars it has fought.
India also never had in its history, an event similar to the Magna Carter, the English Civil War, the French, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions, the American Civil War or any event that politically, economically and socially transformed the nation.
Most nations are willing to show uncompromising courage to accept horrific losses while striving for the ultimate victory.
Even with its size $4 trillion economy and 1.46 billion people India is willing to compromise rather than accept losses and fight on,