India strives to render Pakistan strategically irrelevant to better focus its attention on China. But neither Pakistan nor China has an interest in allowing that to happen. It’s an ongoing saga of which we saw the most recent instalment some weeks ago, following late-April terrorist attacks at Pahalgam in Indian Kashmir. As an indicator of the broader military balance on the subcontinent, the recent confrontation suggests that even though India’s eye is on China for the long term, Pakistan is still a problem it cannot ignore. A new policy brief by ASPI, released today, outlines the quantitative military balance between India and Pakistan.
Mapping India-Pakistan military power (Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan and Linus Cohen – The Strategist)
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