India, July 14 -- The scale, precision and indigenous power of India's arsenal stunned Islamabad, exposing its increasing dependence on Chinese weaponry and struggling under internal political discord and military dysfunction

The missile barrage that India mounted on Pakistan on May 8 was unprecedented. While civilian targets were scrupulously avoided, dozens of military installations, ranging from airports to terrorist homes, were devastated. The aerial bombing, primarily executed by missiles and drones, however, damaged or destroyed military airbases and other military installations, apart from the residences of terrorist leaders, across Pakistan.

It was an air strike, the likes of which had not been mounted in earlier years, in the I...