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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Wounds That Fester -- Chapter 2: The Drift -- Chapter 3: India's Search for a Grand Strategy -- Chapter 4: Assessing Pakistan's Grand Strategy -- Chapter 5: Military Doctrines and Deterrence Stability -- Chapter 6: Gray-Zone Warfare and Arms Race Instability -- Chapter 7: Strategic Futures -- Conclusion -- Index -- Praise for the Book -- Cambria Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series.

Atoms for peace at crossroads of history -- Ayub's non-decision and the nuclear bomb option -- Never again -- The route to nuclear ambition -- Punishing Pakistan -- Mastery of uranium enrichment -- Procurement network in the gray market -- Building the bomb -- Mastery of plutonium production -- Military crises and nuclear signalling -- Pakistan's missile quest -- The grazing horse in the meadows -- The nuclear test decision -- The dawn of a nuclear power -- A shaky beginning : Kargil and its aftermath -- Establishment of robust command and control -- Testing the deterrent -- The unraveling of the Khan network -- Nuclear Pakistan and the world

The regional dynamic in South Asia is both extravagant and complicated. For centuries various empires have risen, thrived, and fallen, as numerous wars and clashes for control over resources spread across the geography. South Asian history writ large has seen hypothetical borders redrawn several times, leaving in question the viability of state control and perpetuating ethnic tensions. Though the great partition of India in 1947 ought to have politically resolved communal disharmony, the haste of British withdrawal created a geopolitical quagmire that has resulted in an "enduring rivalry" between the nations of India and Pakistan, one that has lasted for more than sixty years.

A Índia e o Paquistão estão envolvidos numa subtil competição estratégica e numa gradual corrida de armamentos onde inovações tecnológicas, modernizações militares e crescentes arsenais nucleares aumentam os riscos para a estabilidade. O investimento militar indiano é alimentado pela rivalidade estratégica com a China mas o ritmo de desenvolvimento torna o Paquistão crescentemente vulnerável; para reduzir o nível de disparidade, o Paquistão vira-se para a China – apesar desta estar disponível e ser capaz de aumentar a capacidade estratégica paquistanesa – esta assistência não é suficiente para permitir ao Paquistão lidar com as diversas contingências das forças convencionais. Desta forma, Islamabad depende cada vez mais das armas nucleares para contrabalançar os desequilíbrios de forças com a Índia. Neste dilema de segurança clássico, onde a competição se intensifica e desconfiança mútua aumenta, o potencial para a emergência de uma crise militar no Sul da Ásia aumenta. A situação pede uma paz estrutural e uma arquitetura de segurança para iniciar uma détente e garantir uma estabilidade entre dois vizinhos com armas nucleares. Na ausência de tal acordo, as consequências de uma competição securitária Índia-Paquistão sem restrições podem ir além do Sul da Ásia e afetar as regiões do Médio Oriente e Ásia-Pacífico. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

India and Pakistan are engaged in a subtle strategic competition and a gradual arms race where technological innovations, military modernizations, and growing nuclear arsenals are raising the stakes for stability. India's military investment is driven by a strategic rivalry with China, but the pace of development finds Pakistan increasingly vulnerable to exploitation; to reduce the level of disparity, Pakistan turns to China, and though willing and able to bolster Pakistan's strategic capability, the assistance is not enough to enable Pakistan to meet multiple conventional force contingencies. Islamabad therefore depends even more on nuclear weapons to offset its force imbalance with India. In this classic security dilemma, where competition is intensifying and mutual distrust is swelling, the potential for an outbreak of military crisis in South Asia is increasing. The situation demands a structured peace and security architecture to initiate détente and ensure stability between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. Without such an agreement, the consequences of an unchecked India-Pakistan security competition could reverberate beyond South Asia into the Asia- Pacific and Middle East regions.