Jammu, July 6 -- News reports now suggest that Pakistan has reportedly moved two army divisions up into Gilgit-Baltistan region opposite Kargil. Clearly some elements within our security establishment must see this as our worst nightmares coming true as the possibility of Pakistan and China joining forces to attack us seems a looming possibility.

This was the worst-case scenario our military leadership kept periodically shouting about from the rooftops, obviously without either much conviction or action for preparedness. Otherwise, if it kept them awake at night they would have put their money where their mouth was, as the former French Chief of Defence Staff, General Pierre de Villiers, did, when he resigned in a protest against the ann...