Revenge is the Enemy of Deterrence
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.