NEW DELHI, July 15 -- Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said India's victory over Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil War underscored the country's resolve to meet any threat to its territory, identity or honour with full might.

"At an altitude of nearly 20,000 feet, where breathing is difficult, oxygen is scarce, and the temperature drops to minus 40 degrees, our brave soldiers turned the impossible into the possible under such remote and harsh conditions," Singh said at an event in the run-up to the 27th Kargil Vijay Diwas on July 26.

Twenty-seven years ago the Indian Army rewrote the rules of mountain warfare and beat astonishing odds to eject a treacherous foe from the dizzying heights occupied by it in the Kargil sector a few month...