The pattern is all too familiar. A jihadi group operating from Pakistani soil, with state backing, carries out a terror attack on India. If the assault is particularly atrocious, India suspends diplomatic engagement while mulling more punitive responses, including strikes on terror safe havens inside Pakistan and adopting more proactive security doctrines aiming to inflict high costs on state-sponsors of terrorism.  Illustration by The Geostrata Pakistan, fearing its deterren

The People's Liberation Army Navy, or PLAN, as it is famously known, is a naval branch of the People's Liberation Army.

Starting with "Make in India' to Aatmanirbhar Bharat, followed by the theaterization of command structure, the creation of the Tri-Services