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April 2004.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In the wake of a terrorist attack on Parliament House in New Delhi in 2001, India mobilized its armies along its western frontiers, and threatened to go to war with Pakistan. In the event, India did not go to war, although none of its key demands--an end to cross-border terrorism, for example, or the return of twenty terrorists claimed to be harbored by Pakistan--were met. This article examines the backdrop to the military of crisis of 2001-2002, in particular the long series of war threats made by India in response to Pakistani sub-conventional warfare in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. It argues that neither war threats nor physical fencing of India's frontiers have deterred this subconventional warfare, and that alternate means have to be found to contain it.
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