"India and Pakistan Are a Brewing Nuclear Nightmare" Topic
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Tango01 | 09 Mar 2019 9:12 p.m. PST |
"While India and Pakistan seem to have stopped bombing one another, the causes behind the cross-border tensions aren't going away any time soon. The two nations are nuclear-armed; have large conventional armed forces; have had four serious wars since they became independent in 1947; and have enormous cultural and religious antipathy. This is a prescription for a disaster, and yet the confrontation is flying below the international radar – well below North Korea, Brexit, China-U.S. trade confrontations, Iran and even the "yellow vests" of France. A full-blown war in the valleys and mountains of Kashmir is a very real possibility. When I was the supreme allied commander of NATO, the most important mission of the alliance was dealing with terrorism in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, our Pakistani partners continued to support many of the radical elements of the Taliban. They were afraid of creeping Indian influence, and much preferred a Taliban-dominated Afghanistan to a more Western-leaning and independent Afghani government. I dealt often with General Ashfaq Kayani, the lean, chain-smoking chief of staff of the Pakistani army (arguably a more powerful position than the prime minister). He frequently came to NATO's political headquarters in Brussels to brief the combined military leadership of the alliance on the key threat Pakistan faced several years ago – internal terrorism. Yet always hovering over our conversations was the Pakistani military's deepest concern: India…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Lion in the Stars | 11 Mar 2019 1:31 a.m. PST |
Nah, the Indians seem to be keeping pretty tight hold of their nukes. It's the Pakistani nukes that scare the hell out of me! |
Tango01 | 11 Mar 2019 11:05 a.m. PST |
You are right my friend…. Amicalement Armand
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Thresher01 | 11 Mar 2019 7:05 p.m. PST |
Yea, the Pakistanis and their various factions are really the ones to worry about here. Not sure how you can really secure nukes well with such infiltration and/or sympathies in the government. Hope someone (actually many) have a good plan to deal with "surprises" should the wrong people get their hands on the keys/codes (do they even have those?) to the WMDs. |
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