There’s a parallel between everything that runs along the context of the Kargil War. The fierceness and the thirst for conquest in the given lines clearly describes the attitude of not just the captain but of everyone involved in “Operation Vijay” which literally meant “victory”. The Kargil War was a territorial armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC).