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[rfmcdpei]

The title of Alex Harrowell's post at the Yorkshire Ranter is actually quite apropos, inasmuch as it deals with the potential catastrophe wrought by India's Cold Start strategic doctrine, which would see time/space-limited military assaults against Pakistan with the aim of fighting a conventional war despite the nuclear weaponization of both

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Why the West should care more

[absinthe_dot_ca]

Setting aside the massive losses of life and environmental damage such an exchange would certainly bring about, one of the other issues with an Indo-Pakistan nuclear war is that it would *immediately* cripple Western economies, given how much of their IT infrastructure and support is outsourced to that area of the world. One high-altitude air-burst over Mumbai, for instance, wouldn't have to kill anybody at all to generate enough of an EMP to kill every computer in the state, along with a lot of other infrastructure.