Pakistan, Aug. 19 -- The most discomforting part of Declassified: Operation Sindoor is not the military history it claims to settle but the doctrine it is trying to leave behind, because once the contested claims about aircraft, damage, attribution, casualties, escalation and ceasefire are stripped away, what remains is an unmistakable Indian attempt to transform an exceptionally dangerous four-day confrontation into a repeatable model of state behaviour: an allegation of cross-border terrorism will be followed by attribution to Pakistan, attribution will create the political authority for punitive force, Pakistan's response will itself become justification for widening the target set, and India will reserve for itself the privilege of de...