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Counting the May 2025 Conflict
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Strategic Assessment Paper · Releases Monday 22 June
Counting the May 2025 Conflict
A source-based financial and strategic accounting of the May 2025 conflict — Operation Sindoor and Marka-e-Haq. Forty pages, seventy-five cited sources, and four tiers of evidence, sequenced so the reader starts inside India’s own admissions before a single Pakistani source is introduced. It documents the aircraft losses, the cost asymmetry, and the strategic balance that emerged.
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