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2002-05-21 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-05-21 11:22 am|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 On this comment and yesterday's "after the monsoon season comes war" comment, I just remembered that the British and Germans fought a 3 year campaign without regards to weather in the North African Western Desert using equipment and command structures not remarkably different from those armies in WW II. I don't think that the weather will be a decisive factor in the movement to war. What will be decisive, as in WW I, will be internal politics. Neither Vajpayee nor Musharraf have political standing which will submit to a protracted Sitzkrieg. The Gujarat communal violence and the inability of Musharraf to control the jihadis is indicative of this. If weather is even important, then the battle will be in Kashmir. But tactical infiltration (as opposed to guerilla warfare) in this land of mountains and valleys will be nearly impossible with nearly 1.5 million troops positioned on both sides of the LOC.

Posted by Tom Roberts 2002-05-22 06:34:41|| 2002-05-22 06:34:41|| Front Page Top

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