India, May 10 -- After nearly eight decades of enduring the strategy of 'a thousand cuts', India must respond with its own strategy of poisoning the sources of power of the Pakistani Army.

NEW DELHI: Ever since the Pakistan Army sent its soldiers disguised as "tribesmen" to attack India in Jammu and Kashmir soon after the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the question of establishing deterrence against an ideological enemy has worried India. This question has been further muddied by subsequent wars which led to Pakistani defeats, in 1965, 1971, and in Kargil, and yet it is impossible to deny that the Pakistani military state has sought to effectively alter the narrative and project a victory. The only place the Pakistani establishment could ...