When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
Unfortunately that is probably a pretty accurate statement.
The question is - what do the Chinese, and their allies, the Pakistanis do now? The Chinese will certainly use the Pakistanis as their proxy to assert control over the entire region. That is a not a good geo-political scenario. India is certainly in their collective sights.