Looming behind the India-Pakistan tensions: Two growing nuclear arsenals and no signs of de-escalation
Indian Border Security Force personnel walk along a fence at the India-Pakistan border on the outskirts of Amritsar on Feb. 27, 2019. By Niha Masih Niha Masih Foreign correspondent covering India Bio Follow February 27 at 12:05 PM NEW DELHI — As hostilities escalate between India and Pakistan, the world is getting a taste of what a limited war between two nuclear-armed rivals might look like.
The country’s defense expenditure was more than 16 percent of national expenditures in 2017, far higher than India’s 9 percent. Experts say that Pakistan’s focus on developing short-range nuclear-capable missiles is part of a tactical mission to be able to counter India’s superior strength in ground-based armed forces. At the height of the U.S.
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