On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Balaji Dutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I may, could I ask you to go up to the first link I had posted earlier ( > http://is.gd/1L9l ). There is a very specific logic underlying the blue > track from the border of Kashmir to Rajpath. That route avoids almost every > single large military base to the north of Delhi (there aren't that many to > begin with). The attacking force gets the benefit of roads that are well > maintained to permit rapid deployment of the Indian Army to Kashmir and > turns it against them. The red track on the other hand runs through (or > within easy distance of) atleast 2 large military bases in Kashmir - > Srinagar and Anantpur.
This exchange brings to mind the first episode of Yes Prime Minister in which Jim Hacker and his Chief Scientific Advisor debate whether the Russians would invade Western Europe and when (and if) the PM would press The Button. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX_d_vMKswE The Pakistani military would be out of its mind to try an out and out invasion. Winning the Peace with an occupational army would nigh impossible. And I suspect the ISI's involvement in funding secessionist groups in Kashmir is part of their Salami tactics. Thaths -- "I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'." -- Homer J. Simpson
