Ep. 06: Surgical Strikes
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Unseen Negative Impact of the Surgery Strikes
The unseen effect of surgical strikes is not just that violence has gone up because the ceasefire has effectively ended, but also that the probability of future escalation is much, much higher. So what you would want to do in order to make this work is first do it immediately after a terrorist attack to signal that we are attacking. And then you would want the Pakistan army to not escalate further. You know, how you can do that is one thing you wouldn't want to signal a lot of jingoism which actually happened after these attacks, right?
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