1965

Following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, a strategy to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir and start a rebellion against Indian control, India retaliated by launching a full-scale attack on West Pakistan. Just seventeen days into the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965, also known as the Second Kashmir War, both countries suffered from thousands of casualties. The war had also witnessed the largest engagement of armored vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II. After diplomatic intervention by the Soviet Union and the United States and a mandated ceasefire declared by the United Nation, the war came to a temporary end.