Tiki Tam Tam
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Icecold,
You are absolutely right that the situation can only change if there is a war and one side wins.
I can only request you to see the terrain of Kashmir.
Ask any military man as to how long it takes to cross valleys, attack a pinnacle and capture it and then hold on it!
Unless one clears a ridge of many posts, it become difficult to hold that ridge.
Salients are dangerous for defence!
To my way of looking at it, neither India nor Pakistan can clear all the valleys and ridge lines completely and it will only be you bite a chunk here and I bite a chunk here and this will go on and on even after we have left this earth.
That is why I don't advocate war.
But if it comes, who can stop it?
You are absolutely right that the situation can only change if there is a war and one side wins.
I can only request you to see the terrain of Kashmir.
Ask any military man as to how long it takes to cross valleys, attack a pinnacle and capture it and then hold on it!
Unless one clears a ridge of many posts, it become difficult to hold that ridge.
Salients are dangerous for defence!
To my way of looking at it, neither India nor Pakistan can clear all the valleys and ridge lines completely and it will only be you bite a chunk here and I bite a chunk here and this will go on and on even after we have left this earth.
That is why I don't advocate war.
But if it comes, who can stop it?