Omar,
As someone interested in the military history of the region, have you read any of Rakesh Ankit's work (Indian Rhodes scholar)?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/45084187/1948-Jammu-Kashmir
Just curious if anyone knows more about the subject?
PS: On your earlier question on the low casualities, I think it's interesting the "limitedness" of the various Indian/Pakistan conflicts. What I mean is that even before the conflict going "nuclear", so to speak, there were various reasons that conflicts were limited and some due to the larger context - two poorer countries within the larger context of the Cold War and the late stages of the British withdrawal from the subcontinent.
I dunno what I'm trying to say, I mean, I think I'm intuiting something but I can't articulate it exactly.
PPS: I think what I am intuiting--if that is even a word--is that the Western presence, like a particle/wave duality, is both stabilizing and destabilizing at the same time. So, the presence is essentially destabilizing because "rock-paper-scissors-like", destabilizing wins out. Yeah, once again, I don't know what I am trying to say. So, maybe the limitedness is something else yet again that I can't put my finger on....
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