Pakistan's Military Failures -1947 to 2014

Pakistans military has been a grand master in deflecting blame and rationalizing failures as grand conspiracies! Nothing is farther from the truth ! Thus my adoption of comic San MS font ! I have no axe to grind , my family has a long military tradition going back to 500 years and more . Disgust with rationalization and white washing of falsehood in Pakistan is main motivation to write this short analysis. It can and it may serve as a primer for more detailed analysis. Summary of Pakistans Military Failures 1. 1947-48 Kashmir War:-- a. Failure to make use of intercepted information regarding Indian War Plan to move army into Kashmir b. Failure to employ armored cars to capture Srinagar c. Obsession with capturing Leh and under estimation of importance of Zojila Pass d. Failure to advise political government correctly about militarily advantageous right time of ceasefire 2. Sabotaging Just military recruitment policy -1951-1966 3. One Unit as a grand political failure creating multiple future military disasters for Pakistan as a country and Pakistani military specially East Pakistan Crisis of 1971 and ongoing Balochistan War. 4. Failure to understand military organisation and create commensurate organizational structures 5. Failure to successfully evolve doctrine of decisive warfare in period 1947-65 6. Military Failures in 1965 War 7. Intelligence Failures in 1965 8. Miserable failure to formulate a strategic plan for defense of East Pakistan 9. 1 Corps Failure in 1971 War at operational level 10. 12 Division Failure in 1971 War 11. Adoption of Islamist proxies in Afghanistan and India as a strategy 12. Intelligence Failure in Siachen 13. Religious persecution and apartheid 14. Destroying Pakistani political parties as a strategy 1977-1990 15. Defective Assessment system of promotion 16. Defective military training system 17. Defective Intelligence organization