Lessons for the next India-Pakistan war

WHITE NOTED THAT THE RECENT CONFLICT MARKED A NEW CHAPTER IN THE DECADES-LONG RIVALRY BETWEEN THE TWO NUCLEAR-ARMED NATIONS

- HT Correspondent

NEW DELHI: At this point, most avid consumers of the news have probably read 1,001 postmortem analyses of the India-Pakistan conflict, desperately searching for some new insight that helps explain this brief, but intense clash between the two South Asian rivals. In this sea of commentary, an essay by scholar Joshua T White simply titled, "Lessons for the next India-Pakistan war", stands out both for its analytical clarity and its wisdom.

To talk more about his essay and the larger lessons learned from the conflict, White was featured on a recent episode of Grand Tamasha, a weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy co-produced by HT and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. White's essay was published by the Brookings Institution, where White is a non-resident fellow with the foreign policy program. He is also professor of the practice of international affairs at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC.

White has extensive experience working in the US government, having served at both the National Security Council and the Pentagon.