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India’s Ways of (Non-) War: Explaining New Delhi’s
Forbearance in the Face of Pakistani Provocations
65 Rama Lakshmi, “India Wages a War of Words,” Washington Post, December 19, 2001.
66 Nayak and Krepon, “U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia’s Twin Peaks Crisis,” 52.
67 Dennis Kux, “India’s Fine Balance,” Foreign Affairs 81, no. 3 (May–June 2002): 98-100; Sood
and Sawhney, Operation Parakram, 73-79.
68 John Lancaster, “Pakistan to Follow India in Removing Troops from Border,” Washington Post,
October 18, 2002.
69 Kapur, Dangerous Deterrent, 134.
70 Hoyt, “Kargil: The Nuclear Dimension,” 160, note 58.
71 John Lancaster, “India to Remove Some Forces from Border with Pakistan,” Washington Post,
October 17, 2002. The oft-quoted figure of one million Indian and Pakistani soldiers facing off
against one another included troops in Kashmir.
72 Sagan and Waltz, Spread of Nuclear Weapons, 146. (Sagan)
73 Devin T. Hagerty, “The Nuclear Holdouts: India, Israel, and Pakistan,” in Slaying the Nuclear
Dragon: Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Tanya Ogilvie-White and
David Santoro (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012), 223-24.
74 Praveen Swami, “A War to End a War: The Causes and Outcomes of the 2001–2 India-Pakistan
Crisis,” in Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb, ed. Sumit
Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur (London: Routledge, 2009), 144.
75 Kanti Bajpai, “To War or Not to War: The India–Pakistan Crisis of 2001–2,” in Nuclear
Proliferation in South Asia, ed. Ganguly and Kapur, 165.
76 Rajesh Basrur, South Asia’s Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective
(London: Routledge, 2008), 61.
77 Steve Coll, “The Stand-Off,” New Yorker, February 13, 2006 (no p. # in online version), https://
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/02/13/the-stand-off, Coll adds that, “by Christmas Day
of 2001, C.I.A. and other intelligence analysts in Washington had concluded that an invasion
of Pakistani territory by Indian forces could escalate to nuclear conflict.”
78 Nayak and Krepon, “U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia’s Twin Peaks Crisis,” 52, 24-25.
79 Celia W. Dugger, “Indian General Talks Bluntly of War and a Nuclear Threat,” New York Times,
January 12, 2002.
80 LeT played a small part in the Parliament attack. Tankel, Storming the World Stage, 112.
81 Nayak and Krepon, “U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia’s Twin Peaks Crisis,” 25-26.
82 Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (New York: Broadway,
2011), 123.
83 MacDonald, Defeat Is an Orphan, 137.
84 President Pervez Musharraf ’s Address to the Nation, January 12, 2002, http://www.pak.gov.
pk/President_Addresses/President_address.htm.
85 Edward Luce, “India Prepares for Strike on Camps,” Financial Times, May 17, 2002.
86 Steve Coll, “Between India and Pakistan, a Changing Role for the US,” Washington Post, May
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