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James Bond says ..never say never again....specially when PM is Modi
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Why should you be happy with only half of the pie when you can have all of it? It reminds me of the sour grapes.
Kargil was not a full blown war, just a localized skirmish. And that was more than 17 years ago. Today no side can even afford a Kargil type operation. Cost of war has increased. Inflation of 17 years. The game is cross border raids, terrorist attacks, and propaganda warfare now. Economic costs don't allow anything bigger.Then what was Kargil?
The cost of getting the second half is too high, it would screw the economy over and get a lot of people killed. It's not worth it, that was the point of Pakistan's nuclear tests. Doesn't mean we can't do it though.
Can you post some pictures or videos of what you've just claimed? Chinese soldiers running away like their indian counter parts sounds like fairy tale!
Just Google sikkim and arunachal pradesh, you'll be mighty impressed with the fairy tale.. Oh wait I just remembered, Google's banned for you guys right? LOL
Why should you be happy with only half of the pie when you can have all of it? It reminds me of the sour grapes.
Since you know that we're banned from using google why don't you oblige us by doing it for us or is google banned in india as well?
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Kargil was not a full blown war, just a localized skirmish. And that was more than 17 years ago. Today no side can even afford a Kargil type operation. Cost of war has increased. Inflation of 17 years. The game is cross border raids, terrorist attacks, and propaganda warfare now. Economic costs don't allow anything bigger.
You say the cost is too high and I say it is impossible, it is like saying the same thing but in a different way.
Then what is stopping india from invading if not entire Pakistan at least the Azad kasmir? Actions speak louder than words. The world in general can afford to believe your claim but not india. BTW, even an A-bomb is a nuclear weapon.
Alright, so I did the math. Kargil cost 5000 crore INR in 1999 and in today's dollars assuming 10% inflation it works out to about 75 billion USD. At India's GDP of 1.877 trillion it works out to about 4% of the GDP. Assuming it costs both countries the same, it will cost Pakistan 28% of the GDP. My conclusion is that India can afford it but Pakistan's economy would be destroyed. Do you agree?
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Total cost would mean that India's GDP growth turn to negative. Will take at least a decade to recover.
All wars with Pakistan was regarding Kashmir.. Wonder how many inches Pakistan has acquired after 1947 Indian innervation although they claim to win all wars against India..lolLet him boast about it 1971 is the only war india ever won that too with bengali help
That said, no sane government would kill millions of its people in order to get the barren land of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir back as @ManavKalia pointed out just now. In life everything is a cost/benefit analysis and the costs outweigh the benefits for us.
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Actually even if it was economically feasible for us, we still wouldn't want Pakistan's part of Kashmir. Hint: we didn't press further in 1948. We had Abdullah for the valley as a popular leader, we didn't in other areas. Same with 1971, we took some areas of strategic value around Kargil, but for same reasons didn't want the other areas.
I hear some idiots in India blame Nehru and Indira for not taking whole of Kashmir in the two opportunities. They have no sense of on the ground realities involved and are swayed more by misplaced hyper nationalism than by common sense. Taking other parts of Kashmir would have meant having 3 Kashmir valley insurgencies, instead of the one we have today. Today India is very comfortably placed with regard to the valley. Other areas would have stretched our army uncomfortably.