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| India-Pakistan |
| India plans war within two weeks |
| 2002-06-06 |
| India's military is seeking final authorisation to invade the Pakistani side of divided Kashmir in the middle of this month to destroy the camps of Islamic militants. The planned campaign would be similar to the American attack in Afghanistan, in which air strikes would be followed by ground assaults by special forces transported by helicopter, military sources said yesterday. Smart bombs and other advanced ordnance are reported to have been loaded on to French-made Mirage 2000H and Russian-built MiG-27 aircraft at bases in northern and western India. The Telegraph was in the habit of publishing scenarios of U.S. operations in Afghanistan before the war that didn't quite pan out. See this one. And this one. As Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, strengthened his warning to Britons to leave the region, military planners in Delhi expressed confidence that a war would not boil over into a nuclear exchange. A senior Indian official accused Britain, America and other western countries of "adding their weight to Pakistan's nuclear blackmail" by telling their citizens to leave. "This is jumping the gun," he said. "Our intention is not to have an all-out war. It would be a limited action." Just on the off chance significant numbers of Indians and Paks turn into radioactive debris, we'll move out of range for awhile, if it's okay with you... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |