India, July 26 -- Today is Kargil Diwas, the day we remember the glorious 527 Indian soldiers who wrote their brave war legacy in blood against brutal odds and kicked the Pakistan army across the Line of Control (LoC)-from Mushkoh valley to Chorbat La in Jammu and Kashmir-in 1999.

While we celebrate the saga of those who sacrificed their lives and got seriously injured, the key lesson of Kargil war was that pre-emptive intelligence and constant military vigil against an unscrupulous adversary like Pakistan will reduce the economic and human cost of war.

Had the Indian military and civilian intelligence not looked at Pakistan through pink glasses after the 1999 Lahore Declaration and the Indian Army commanders had not conducted long rang...