Diplomacy aside, India ratchets up firepower against Pakistan
India debates the military option to teach Pakistan a lesson even as it ratchets up global diplomatic opinion in its favour. How it will control the escalation of conflict is the real imponderable.
We have options, we have numerous options, army chief General Bipin Rawat told india today late last year on his likely response to a sensational strike by Pakistan-based terrorists. He discounted the possibility of surgical strikes IIspecial forces reprising their 2016 cross-border raid. An action taken once puts the adversary on the alert because he knows what's going to happen. This, senior army officials say, is precisely what is happening now across the border with Pakistan with the other side putting its troops on high alert. On February 15, a day after a suicide bomber killed 40 CRPF troopers, Prime
