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**tankfixer**

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"Zombywoof" wrote in message
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Perhaps one day they will simply Nuke each other & be done with it.

Except the Pakistanis can't hit anything south of Delhi.

Which means that they can't hit the huge Indian bases in Maharashtra and
Goa, which means they're stuffed, and, chances are, India gets
reunified...

They can't hit those bases with normal means of delivery.

They can't hit them with nukes.

IIRC Goa is a major seaport.
Should be easy to get one there.

Going on past performance they may drop a few iron bombs and kill a few
civilians, but they won't do any serious damage to the military
infrastructure.

They did try in the past, my wife remembers doing air raid drills in Bombay
in the 1965 war (which had some tank battles worth reading up on for people
with an exaggerated view of Pakistani military capabilities) ,but these days
India is much stronger militarily than it was and Pakistan is weakened in a
conventional conflict by having its elite units optimised for fighting in
the NWF against terrorists.

Unlike Pakistan, the Indian army tends not to train units specially for
anti-terrorist work but follows the British model of using ordinary soldiers
for 'security duties' (wandering about and being seen) and a few small
specialist units to do the dirty work.

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless
made so and kept so by the exertions of much better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) English economist and philosopher.