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40 John W. Garver, “The Restoration of Sino-Indian Comity Following India’s Nuclear Tests,”
China Quarterly, no. 168 (December 2001): 882.
41 Raj Chengappa, “Face-Saving Retreat,” India Today International, July 19, 1999, 16.
42 Garver, “Sino-Indian Comity,” 882.
43 Raj Chengappa, “On High Ground,” India Today International, June 28, 1999, 25.
44 The most authoritative account of the Kargil conflict, Lavoy’s Asymmetric Warfare, concludes
that “Indian troops were within days of opening another front across the LOC and possibly
the international border, an act that could have triggered a large-scale conventional military
engagement, which in turn might have escalated to an exchange of recently tested Indian and
Pakistani nuclear weapons.” Lavoy, “Introduction,” 2.
45 Chengappa, “Face-Saving Retreat,” 17.
46 Riedel, “American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit,” 6.
47 Chengappa, “Will the War Spread?” 14.
48 Lancaster, “U.S. Defused Kashmir Crisis on Brink of War.”
49 C. Raja Mohan, “Pak. Must Pull Out Troops,” The Hindu, June 28, 1999.
50 Garver, “Sino-Indian Comity,” 884.
51 Riedel, “American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit,” 6, 7.
52 Riedel, “American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit,” 8, 9.
53 Musharraf, In the Line of Fire, 97-98.
54 Riedel, “American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit,” 9-12.
55 Riedel, “American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit,” 11.
56 Raj Chengappa, Weapons of Peace: The Secret Story of India’s Quest to Be a Nuclear Power
(New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2000), 437. The three delivery systems were the Prithvi and Agni
missiles, as well as the Mirage-2000 attack aircraft. Lavoy contends that “neither Pakistan nor
India readied its nuclear arms for employment.” “Introduction” to Asymmetric Conflict, 11.
57 Riedel, “American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit,” 11.
58 Riedel, “American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit,” 12.
59 “Press Briefing by Senior Administration Official on President’s Meeting with Prime Minister
Sharif of Pakistan,” Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, July 4, 1999, http://www.
fas.org/news/pakistan/1999/990704-pak-wh2.htm.
60 “India Claims Control of Key Kashmir Sector,” CNN Interactive, July 10, 1999.
61 “India, Pakistan Agree to End Kashmir Fighting,” CNN Interactive, July 11, 1999.
62 Nawaz Sharif, “Prime Minister’s Address to the Nation,” July 12, 1999, http://www.pak.gov.pk.
63 “India Says All Kashmir Infiltrators Have Retreated,” Reuters, July 17, 1999.
64 K. Alan Kronstadt, “Pakistan–US Relations,” Issue Brief, Congressional Research Service,
Washington, DC, October 28, 2002, 9.
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