You’re presenting a very simplistic and surface-level take on Indian defense affairs, with heavy assumptions based on what’s visible to the public — not what actually drives military institutions.
First, if senior IAF officials make bold claims, it’s fair to question them. But jumping from that to “mission planners and intel officers will become overconfident and doomed” is a leap. The Indian military doesn’t operate in a vacuum — it’s deeply influenced, and often constrained, by political and bureaucratic layers. What’s said in public is not always what’s believed or acted on internally. Remember this when talking about India, as every country and its military have different organisational structures and Public outreach.
Second, the claim that India “lied openly in 2019” ignores actual data. While the Balakot strikes didn’t come with flashy footage at the time, open-source satellite imagery (Planet Labs, Stratfor, IISS) later showed structural damage at the Jaish-e-Mohammed camp. You can debate effectiveness — but not whether a strike occurred.
Now in 2025, the IAF has released missile camera footage and post-strike satellite imagery. Yet again, it’s being dismissed as fake. So what’s the standard here — if India says it, it must be false? That’s not skepticism, that’s confirmation bias.
You also claim India will keep failing because it celebrates fake wins. If that logic held, 2025 should’ve been a disaster too. Instead, India conducted precision strikes with documented evidence, escalated carefully, and avoided wider conflict. Not exactly failure.
As for institutional reform: Pakistan outright denied its soldiers were even in Kargil in 1999. They left bodies unclaimed. Yet somehow, despite zero accountability, you argue Pakistan’s military improved as they performed in this conflict. Why? Because the real changes happened behind closed doors — not on Twitter, not in press conferences.
Same applies to India. Internal reforms, doctrinal shifts, procurement priorities — none of that plays out on social media. Public perception, for better or worse, doesn’t dictate operational evolution.
You’re looking for lies because you’ve already decided they exist — and now you’re just reverse-engineering the narrative to confirm that. Try looking a bit deeper.