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Editor's Note This short piece by Col PK Royal Mehrishi analysis the characteristics of the game of cricket in all its formats and military operations . The author highlights the significance of both cricket and military with meaningful comparisons.  These comparisons are relevant today especially in India due to the popularity of the game of cricket and respect enjoyed by the military due to its role and critical importance to the nation

"Ongoing conflict, which is still not 100 hours old, has engulfed entire Middle East. A similar event, but of much lesser ferocity was Israel offensive of 1967, famously known as SIX DAY WAR. USA, then was not a participant. In less than 100 hours number of targets hit, number of missiles launched has already surpassed one thousand figure."---Gp Capt TP Srivastava    Background   Seeds of this war were sown the day JCPOA$* was signed. USA led the team, which signed the JCPOA

Wars are always started when one side of the warring parties think it is now unavoidable or simply come out with a cause that is unilaterally declared as a JUST cause. It doesn’t necessarily need to agree with what is desired literally at the end of war. Many of us in the military know that, war is a well thought out plan to use military means towards a political intention. In the world today it is more like MILITARY MEANS TOWARDS INTERVENTION. Every army knows it enemies. Th