The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, a culmination of skirmishes that take place between April 1965 and September 1965 between India and Pakistan, is known as the Second Kashmir War which is fought between India and Pakistan over the region of Kashmir, the first having been fought in 1947.

The war begins following the failure of Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar which had been designed to infiltrate and invade Jammu and Kashmir.

The five-week war causes thousands of casualties on both sides.

It ends in a United Nations (UN) mandated ceasefire.Much of the war is fought by the countries' land forces in the region of Kashmir and along the International Border (IB) between India and Pakistan.

This war sees the largest amassing of troops in Kashmir, a number that is overshadowed only during the 2001-2002 military standoff between India and Pakistan.

Most of the war is fought on land by each country's infantry and armored units, with substantial backing from their air forces.

Many details of this war, like those of most Indo-Pakistani Wars, remain unclear and riddled with media biases.