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TIL that in the Battle of Asal Uttar (1965 Indo-Pakistan war), the Indian army let the Pakistan army think they had retreated, and then flooded the sugarcane fields they camping in overnight, causing the Pakistan tanks sink into the mud. The Pakistan army lost 100 tanks against India’s 10.

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