Kargil War
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Izzat Maxing
X.T.M answers Q’s claim that India–Pakistan wars will stay short, arguing that allies matter only for the fifth day. He tests this against 1971, Kargil, Operation Sindoor and the Gulf…
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🇮🇳Op Sindoor: A Podcast on Pahalgam, Pakistan, and the Limits of Peace
X.T.M reflects on the first half-hour of the BrownCast episode on Op Sindoor, covering the Pahalgam massacre, Modi and Nawaz Sharif’s failed diplomacy, the civil–military cycle in Pakistan, and India’s…
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Nasim Zehra’s Book on Kargil. Review by Maj Amin
Major Agha H Amin’s review attacks Nasim Zehra’s book on Kargil as published twenty years too late, disputes her praise of Lieutenant General Javed Hassan, and lists what he calls…
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India, Pakistan, Kashmir..
The author argues that the India-Pakistan conflict is asymmetric because Pakistan wants to change the Kashmir status quo while India is content with it, surveys Pakistan’s attempts to change it…
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Kargil
Reproduces Teresita Schaffer’s review of Peter Lavoy’s edited book on Kargil, which finds Pakistan’s tactical victory became strategic defeat under a nuclear shadow, and shows the army’s self-delusion about India’s…
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Kargil War
Omar Ali reposts his argument that Musharraf and a few cronies launched the Kargil operation without thinking it through, calling it a strategic and tactical disaster that cost hundreds of…
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Pakistan and India. The Long View.. (updated)
The author argues that the India-Pakistan conflict is asymmetric because Pakistan wants to change the Kashmir status quo while India is content with it, surveys Pakistan’s attempts to change it…
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Musharraf’s Coup. October 1999
Hamid Hussain, in a piece first written in 2012, reviews the background to the October 1999 coup, the differences between Nawaz Sharif and General Musharraf after Kargil, and the decisions…
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Kargil War: mother of GPS
The author argues that India’s space programme is justified because the US denied GPS data during the 1999 Kargil War, driving an indigenous navigation system, while saying India spends too…
