Pakistan Versus India

Just as the schedule of mobilization ignited the engine of inevitability of World War I, so too could Pakistan's disposition of around a single division toward the Indian border. With India already rightly inflamed by the Mumbai massacre, it will not take much to send these two nuclear armed neighbors into the spiral toward war. Pakistani strategic planners will know their best hope to defeat India in a conventional war will be the Guderian tactic of Blitzkrieg where a quick strike might even elicit terms that would unite Indian Kashmir with her Pakistani Muslim brothers. Even the most optimistic generals in Pakistan recognize the futility of a nuclear exchange, but a quick devastating thrust might call forth ceasefire negotiations before Pakistan sustains irrevocable damage. A truce might even be developed under United Nations' auspices that would summon international peacekeepers to allow Pakistan to consolidate her gain. Let us pray Pakistani military minds are not thinking that way because something that seems perfectly plausible at a war college could be the start of World War III.