A Spectacle Of Strikes: South Asia’s Slow-Motion Detonation – OpEd

Once upon a time, not too long ago, yet rapidly fading into obsolescence, India and Pakistan performed the ritual of hostility with the precision of dancers trained to never quite collide. Incendiary speeches? Yes. Troop movements? Certainly. Artillery exchanges and cross-border sabre-rattling? Of course. But beneath the fury:...