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Revenge is the Enemy of Deterrence

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May 11, 2025
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The conflict between India and Pakistan is fast-evolving—so fast that in the time I was sleeping, we had a tentative ceasefire that might have already been broken before I even woke up. Frankly, good information is exceedingly hard to come by—itself a worrying sign.

A good-but-not-great piece in the New York Times makes sense of why this longstanding conflict is far less stable than it used to be.1 A solid primer.

But a couple additional things need to be said.

Modi’s Misfire

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