{"id":44105,"date":"2019-02-27T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44105"},"modified":"2019-02-27T14:44:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:44:43","slug":"nuclear-nightmare-india-and-pakistan-are-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44105","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Nightmare: India and Pakistan are on the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/defconwarningsystem.com\/2019\/02\/27\/nuclear-nightmare-india-and-pakistan-are-on-the-brink\/\">Nuclear Nightmare: India and Pakistan are on the Brink<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/defconwarningsystem.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/RTR2WPPN-810x505.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>India and Pakistan are in the throes of the most serious military standoff between them since 2002. After years of absorbing terror attacks conceived by non-state groups based on Pakistani soil, India decided enough was enough after a February 14 vehicle-borne improvised explosive device killed forty paramilitary personnel. It\u2019s response? An airstrike on what it claimed was a camp run by Jaish-e-Mohammed, the group that claimed the attack, on Pakistani soil.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That retaliation was immediately celebrated in India, where it was seen as a show of muscular resolve\u2014a message that New Delhi wouldn\u2019t simply allow Pakistan\u2019s tolerance and covert encouragement of the non-state groups to go unpunished. But the strike humiliated Pakistan\u2019s defense establishment, which was perceived to have been caught off-guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India described the strike as preemptive and driven by highly specific intelligence about a credible imminent threat. Critically, New Delhi underscored that the targets were \u201cnon-military\u201d\u2014that it wasn\u2019t looking to start a war. In any case, Pakistan\u2019s version of events was sharply divergent, with its military claiming that India had struck nothing more than foliage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was some recent precedence to make sense of the initial Indian strike and Pakistan\u2019s response. New Delhi had retaliated to a lower-casualty attack in Kashmir in September 2016 by conducting what it called \u201csurgical strikes\u201d into Pakistan-administered Kashmir, taking out facilities used by terrorists. Pakistan simply wrote off that action and took the public position that nothing had happened, offering a face-saving off-ramp for both sides that prevented a crisis like the one we\u2019re seeing today from bubbling up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear Nightmare: India and Pakistan are on the Brink India and Pakistan are in the throes of the most serious military standoff between them since 2002. After years of absorbing terror attacks conceived by non-state groups based on Pakistani soil, India decided enough was enough after a February 14 vehicle-borne improvised explosive device killed forty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24502,24503,422,1745],"class_list":["post-44105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-ankit-panda","tag-defcon-warning-system","tag-india","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44106,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44105\/revisions\/44106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}