I've mentioned India's escalating feud with Pakistan, and the likelihood of it breaking out into a shooting war, before; I've also mentioned that the fact that NATO has troops in Afghanistan on Pakistan's northern border changes the dynamic considerably from earlier Indo-Pakistani flareups.
Apparently, NATO unit commanders in-theater agree.
Musharraf has a tiger by the tail, only nominally in charge of a military and national intelligence service riddled with Taliban and Al Qaeda sympathizers, at the helm of a nation ready to topple to a fundamentalist Islamist revolution at any time.
Will NATO play hardball? Will India's grievances trigger another shooting war? Will Iran and longtime ally-of-convenience China stand by if that happens?
Tune in next episode and find out.
(H/T to Never Yet Melted.)
India: 1.07 BILLION people.
ReplyDeletePakistan: 167M people.
Kashmir holds the water, and India's putting up dams.
Both have nukes.
Both have per capita GDPs under $3500.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
Here's the War Nerd's review-
ReplyDelete"...hand-to-hand fighting 18,000 feet up in the Himalayas makes me tired just thinking about it. "
http://www.exile.ru/2004-December-10/war_nerd.html