{"id":1559,"date":"2005-05-15T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T03:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1559"},"modified":"2005-05-15T20:47:20","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T01:47:20","slug":"this_is_the_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/15\/this_is_the_way\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the way the world ends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>StrategyPage offers it&#8217;s analysis of what the first stages of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/\/fyeo\/howtomakewar\/default.asp?target=HTLEAD.HTM\">war between India and Pakistan might look like<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>May 14, 2005:  Can India ever fight a war against its nuclear  armed neighbor and rival Pakistan without provoking a nuclear holocaust? The Indian Army (IA) thinks it has an answer to this question. Until now the India&#8217;s doctrine for war against Pakistan consisted of combat divisions advancing across the Rajasthan desert border into Pakistan, eventually cutting off Pakistan&#8217;s population centers in the north from the only port and economic lifeline of Karachi&#8230;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><i>(click quickly!   Stratpage&#8217;s permalinks are notoriously not so permanent)<\/i><\/p>\n\n<p>Interesting reading if you&#8217;re of a macabre \/ war-nerd sort.  Personally, I&#8217;m an optimist and believe that, short of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001066.html\">improbable Pakistani state implosion<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000147.html\">Hamiltonian peace<\/a> will be the long term outcome between the 2 nations.    Of course, the path from here to there is rarely a straight line.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StrategyPage offers it&#8217;s analysis of what the first stages of a war between India and Pakistan might look like &#8211; May 14, 2005: Can India ever fight a war against its nuclear armed neighbor and rival Pakistan without provoking a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/15\/this_is_the_way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}