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Originally Posted by lemontree
Why base your assumptions on a bollywood movie?...
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It's all I have to view the IA in action.
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An 84 mm RR is part of each platoon.
There are auto grenade launchers in each battalion, and each rifle section (the No.3) has rifle grenade launcher.
In attack the arty fires according to a fireplan, and the Forward Observation Officer (FOO) of the arty accompanies the attacking infantry to bring down fire on oppertunity targets. The infantry Mortar Fire Controller (MFC) co-ordinates the infantry mortar fire.
Each battalion has one platoon of 81 mm mortars.
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Were they any effective in reducing the casualties and retaking the peaks much quicker?
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The enemy MGs are in bunkers, firing from slits. Snipers cannot see them in the dark from any distance.
In mountains the approach to the top is limited to a few places and these are covered by machine guns.
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Those areas manning the machine guns, is it hard to pinpoint the locations of those nests? If not, why not direct the arty shells directly onto them to take them out? Or use RPGs to take out the nests?
Can snipers be equipped with night scopes and night vision goggles? and also don't they have explosive .50 caliber rounds that they can aim through the slit? How close do they have to be? When going up?
It seems to me that in fighting up, the Pakistan have the advantage of height but the disadvantage of not being able to resupply or be reinforced. Why not use a methodical and piece set manner to take out the bunker one by one conserving resources and men? Yeah it might take longer but the Pakistanis will realise that they would have to do something and use a frontal assault or something in which we will be well prepared. That way it will cut down on their numbers for the future fighting and thus allowing us to take over the peaks in shorter time.
Besides, I never really understood the order not to cross the LOC. The pakistanis already did so why can't we do it?
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BM, don't study infantry tactics from Indian made war movies. 
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Well those movies had IA technical advisors and they are all I had to base and judge IA's performances.