In 1947, the army and PAF attempted to annexed the Kashmir, but were pushed back by the single Indian Army.

Operation Gibraltar was codename of an airborne mission to infiltrate in Indian Kashmir, and was originally planned to executed by Army ( Special Service Group ) and PAF ( Special Service Wing ).

The Pakistan Air Force (; English IPA: pɑkʰ fizʰæ ' jə, Pak Fiza ' ya ), abbreviated as PAF, is the air warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Islamic Republic of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air logistics support to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy.

The PAF was tasked with providing point-defence to the Rann of Kutch region to prevent the Indian Air Force ( IAF ) from entering Pakistani airspace and attacking Pakistan Army positions.

Close air support to the Pakistan Army was unexpectedly effective and the PAF is widely considered to have neutralized the large difference in military strength of India and Pakistan.

The speed and intensity of the deployment and PAF's readiness took the Indian Army High Command by surprise and later reports suggest was the main factor in the Indian decision of not going for cross border raids inside Pakistan .. Pakistani press reported issuance of a PAF Standing Order to launch an immediate counter attack in case of an air attack from India, after Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee threatened Pakistani President ..

During close air support missions for Pak Army from late 2008 to mid-2009, PAF conducted more than 5, 500 bombing missions and dropped 10, 600 bombs in northwest tribal areas.

Its graduates today lead most of the top-related departments of PAF, Pakistan Army, Pakistan Navy, PIA and other civilian sectors.

After Lee's army had withdrawn back to Virginia, Stuart performed another of his audacious circumnavigations of the Army of the Potomac — 120 miles in under 60 hours, from Leesburg, Virginia, to as far north as Chambersburg and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania — once again embarrassing his Union opponents and seizing horses and supplies, but at the expense of exhausted men and animals, without gaining much military advantage.

Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France.

Tresckow in particular worked on his Commander-in-Chief of Army Group Centre, Field Marshal Günther von Kluge to persuade him to move against Hitler and at times succeeded in gaining his consent, only to find him indecisive at the last minute.

John Fogerty cites this song as being the result of high spirits on gaining his discharge from the Army Reserve.

1947 also saw the Army Air Corps separate and become the U. S. Air Force, gaining their own EOD branch.

In the year 1760 after gaining control over Bihar, Orissa and some parts of the Bengal, the Mughal Crown Prince Ali Gauhar and his Mughal Army of 30, 000 intended to overthrow Mir Jafar and the Company in order to reconquer the riches of the Eastern Subah's for the Mughal Empire.

Following its success in trials, the Colt pistol was formally adopted by the Army on March 29, 1911, thus gaining its designation, M1911 ( Model 1911 ).

Quickly gaining a commission due to his father's influence, he joined the U. S. Army Signal Corps.

Army regulations and policy have always been clear, the torture or coercion of an enemy prisoner of war during interrogation, or in any other circumstance, is not only unlawful but also an unproductive and unreliable method for gaining information.

The Gardaí and the Irish Army patrolled the area, preventing the IRA from gaining direct access but indirectly they acquired amounts including in the possession of Patrick Magee at the time of his arrest and discovered in a hijacked road tanker in January 1976.

While in Morrinsville he was asked to take up a subalternship in the local Territorial Army unit, but he did not succeed in gaining the King's commission.

By late 1920, Makhno had successfully halted General Wrangel's White Army advance into Ukraine from the southwest, capturing 4, 000 prisoners and stores of munitions, and preventing the White Army from gaining control of the all-important Ukrainian grain harvest.

Rose soon returned to the peacetime army as a captain, and continued his Army career during the interwar period, gaining experience in the theories and practices of Armored Warfare.

Bagration, in combination with the neighbouring Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive launched a few weeks later in Ukraine, allowed the Soviet Union to recapture Belorussia and Ukraine within its 1941 borders, advance into German East Prussia, but more importantly, the Lvov-Sandomierz operation allowed the Red Army to reach the outskirts of Warsaw after gaining control of Poland east of the Vistula river.

As the German situation was starting to become more dire, in August 1943 Weichs was appointed Commander of Army Group F in the Balkans defending against possible Allied invasion in what was seen as Germany ’ s weak underbelly and fighting off local partisan groups that were gaining strength.

He first attracted attention with his illustrations of the Spanish-American War, published in Scribner's and Harper's magazines and in Collier's Weekly, gaining especial prominence with the series, " Men of the Army and Navy ," and a portrait of Colonel Roosevelt.

The Dan O ' Connell Cricket Club ( DOCCC ) is the most notable example with the Beige Army gaining national recognition in Australia for support of the DOCCC.

Wallenius failed to prevent the Red Army from gaining a foothold from the western shore of the bay, and there were reports that he was drinking heavily.

However, the regular Army, led by Dejazmach Asrate Medhin Kassa and Chief of Staff, Major General Mared Mangesha, spent the following day gaining control of other military formations, as well as the Air Force ; later that day Patriarch Abuna Basilios of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, issued an anathema against all those who cooperated with the rebels.

The following year, in a bloodless engagement in September 1863, Union Army troops under General Ambrose Burnside forced the surrender of 2, 300 Confederates defending the gap, gaining Union control of the gap for the remainder of the war.

Upon his graduation in 1956, he returned to Kenya and joined politics at a time when the British government was gaining control over the Kenya Land Freedom Army Mau Mau uprising.

The ambivalence of the Ukrainian population prevented Piłsudski and Petliura from gaining the support they expected, and the allied Polish forces and Petlura's Ukrainians were forced to retreat under mounting pressure from a Red Army counteroffensive.

Banks's corps of the Army of Virginia fought against Stonewall Jackson at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, gaining initial advantage, but was defeated by a Confederate counterattack led by A. P.

Rommel had driven them forward ruthlessly, being confident that, provided he struck quickly before Eighth Army had time to settle, his momentum would take him through the Alamein position and he could then advance to the Nile with little further opposition.

As a result, the Third Army lost momentum as German resistance stiffened around the extensive defenses surrounding the city of Metz.

It was a last-ditch effort to keep up the momentum of the German Army ( Wehrmacht Heer ) during the stagnant stage of the Battle of the Bulge ( Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ).

They made considerable progress and the British Army launched Operation Bluecoat to support the attack and to exploit the momentum.

Hitler was angered by the loss of momentum, and when List proposed moving some stalled spearhead units to another, less advanced portion of the front to assist in destroying stubborn Soviet forces, Hitler relieved him of command on 9 September and placed himself in charge of Army Group A.

As political events gathered momentum, the stage was set for a clash between the Pakistan Army and the Bengali people vowing for independence.

Rommel, however, had decided to maintain his momentum to prevent 8th Army from organising new defenses and thus pursue the British and Commonwealth forces to Cairo and possibly the Suez Canal.

In his tenure as Commander-in-Chief, India, Chetwode was an opponent of replacing horses with tanks ; he " made the surprising pronouncement that the Army in India would be unlikely to adopt tanks for a very long time, and then only to keep up the momentum of horsed cavalry.

By the mid-1930s, mechanisation in the British Army was gaining momentum and on 4 April 1939, with the mechanisation process nearing completion, the Royal Armoured Corps was formed to administer the cavalry regiments and Royal Tank Regiment ( except for the Household Cavalry ).

The main force of the Red Army is pressing forward with the momentum of an avalanche.

The fall of France gave momentum to the U. S. tank program, and in July 1940 the US Army Armored Force was created.

With the momentum, the 11th Army Company and the 68th Army launched counter-offensives, but were unsuccessful.