In April 2025 .... many can say .... "Modi Govt knew such a thing, desperate thing from Pakistan" was coming ... ::: Since 2014, PM Modi drew up plans for enhanced military preparation ... That was like an emerging superpower !!

In retrospect, analyats may easily conclude that Prime Minister Narendra Modi now"faces" an irresistible political compulsion to act firmly and retaliate against Pakistan with force.

But it is true, New Delhi perhaps saw things coming. 

In April 2025, one can say the Modi Govt knew such a "desperate thing would be coming from Pakistan".

Ever since coming to power in 2014, PM Narendra Modi drew up plans for enhanced military preparation.

He started behaving like emerging superpower or at least a key regional player in Asia. This is something he had told Late Arun Jaitley, Modi's first Defence Minister. 

The last major conflict fought between India and Pakistan was the 1999 Kargil war, which was limited in comparison with previous conflicts.

While much is made of the fact that both countries retain nuclear weapons, conventional wisdom is that this has tended to limit rather than exacerbate the danger of serious conflict in recent decades.

However, past militant attacks – in 2016 and 2019 – have resulted in Indian military retaliation. Many observers believe that bar means that India will like launch airstrikes on militants across the border as a minimum response.

In his two brief stints as Defence Minister, Late Jaitley cleared the path for ushering in a raft of long-pending reforms in the armed forces and came out with key policy initiatives to make India self reliant in defence production.  

The most important initiative by Jaitley (of course as a key team-man of Modi) was to make India a hub of defence manufacturing when he unveiled the long-pending strategic partnership model in May 2017.  

Under the policy, select private Indian firms were allowed to partner with foreign entities to build military platforms such as submarines and fighter jets.  

Moreover, the Modi-Jaitley duo kicked off a series of defence reform strategies to enhance combat capabilities of all three wings army, air force and navy.  

In his budget for 2018-19, Finance Minister Jaitley announced setting up of two defence industrial corridors. 

In 2025, all these seem to have come handy when it comes to taking on Pakistan and track the terror elements to the last corners of earth.  

In terms of preparation vis-a-vis taking on Pakistan; experts feel India should get into a realistic mode.

Michael Rubin has used the "lipstick on a pig" rhetoric to elaborate that there should be no pretencse that the Pahalgam attack was "spontaneous action". 

The former Pentagon official -- said : "As for the timing, just as there was a terrorist attack when Bill Clinton went to India, so too does it seem that Pakistan wants to draw attention away from Vice President JD Vance's trip to India".

  

A critical evaluation of initiated reforms by the government laid emphasis on reorientation of military missions, modernization strategy and bolstering the India-US defense cooperation.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian government has launched ambitious and far-reaching proposals for military modernization. 

There was added emphasis for financial support, pace of implementation, and legislative changes to expose the organizational fault lines within the system.

In short, the Indian political class started taking  its military governing roles seriously.

Since 2014, India has initiated unprecedented military modernization.

** Modernization aims to sharpen synergy within the Higher Defense Organization (HDO).

** India’s apex defense management system comprised of political executives, civilian bureaucrats, and military organizations.

Modernization programs have three main goals: 

-- the first is to improve defense preparedness in the face of complex national security challenges, 

--- enabling India’s military to support its foreign policy; 

the second goal is to revitalize defense acquisition policy and procurement procedures, to streamline and rationalize the acquisition and allocation of scarce resources.

There is the third --- need to develop a defense industrial ecosystem, which is necessary to meet any exigencies and sustain India’s global rise. 

In 2021, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh released a booklet of  "20 reforms" designed to make India a military-industrial power,

--- indirectly pointing to these three goals. 

The Modi government’s priority for building up India’s military-industrial complex is in large part due to Modi’s vision of India as not simply a regional power but a rising global power.