How could a landlocked and small state project it's power ?
Sikh leaders never were visionary, in this current age of democracy/ public opinion age , the majority always dominate.
Somebody who offended someone's prophet in india become huge outcry worldwide but you won't hear much about how many SGGS was damaged by others .
Sikhs have become pawn of liberals, muzzies, and hindus and they play siksh for their own political/ other benefits when they need them.
1984 happened and army did lot's of <banned word filter activated> but you would still see Sikh still going into indian armies. The panth is filled with fuddus who are only interested in their own wellbeing but they might also shout about sikhi this and that in gurdwara .
There is a reason why sikhi never spreaded much outside of Punjab and I can say that sikhi even failed in Punjab ( west Punjab, himachal, haryana) because majority of the people didn't adopted sikhi and that's why you never could have a sikh State.