![]() The highest official confirmation of this China paranoia came in 1998 following the nuclear tests. ![]() Frequently even western observers fall for these melodramatic Indian sob stories. On the other hand Pakistan’s India paranoia, is matched almost exactly by India’s China paranoia examples of which can be found here and here. Consequently Pakistan does not believe India’s NFU declaration. Yet within the same doctrine India dilutes its NFU by claiming the freedom to use nuclear weapons against a chemical or biological threats. Psychologically it makes perfect sense to calm Pakistani hyper-paranoia with an NFU since the prospect of conventional collapse against the Pakistan Army is non-existent. The NFU makes no strategic sense whatsoever since it implies India will not use its nukes to equalize against militarily superior China and anyway doesn’t need those nukes against militarily inferior Pakistan. How is it that a country that espouses NFU on the basis of its pacific intentions is willing on the other hand to psychotically annihilate the populace of a country on the other hand in response to what may or may not be a nuclear strike? The two extremes are hard to rationalise strategically and hard to reconcile with each other. India’s 2003 doctrine is based on two extremes – first excessive restraint and the second operatic overreaction. Consequently Michael Krepon asks “why has New Delhi adopted a posture of massive retaliation?” My contention is that very frequently as with most things in India, the real reason actually lies not in strategic logic but rather in bureaucratic battles and paranoias. Much of this perception of weirdness arises from the lack of connect strategic logic and the policies adopted by the government. He was hiding something.India is a “weird” country and its nuclear doctrine “weirder” still. I watched his face, tried to read what lay underneath, and couldn't. I didn't think you'd be impressed with royalty. ![]() Good for you, but trust me about the shower. The van is downstairs with Ringo and Uther in it. He lifted a bag from the floor near his feet. What do you think is going to happen? I couldn't quite keep the suspicion out of my voice. I don't know why you've been hiding all this time, but if you're hiding from the sluagh, the Host, then you're in deep trouble. Don't worry, I haven't made any calls, but I'm sure the police have by now. Let's just say that Branwyn's Tears has a long shelf life. Only another Unseelie could say sluagh and not have it be a mortal insult. Sluagh was a rude name for the lesser Unseelie fey. A quick shower and we'd be on our way to the airport. I just turned and walked to the bathroom. Was it a leftover urge from last night, or were the Tears still affecting me more than I realized? I didn't think about it again. It wasn't like me to want to push the envelope with a friend. I didn't want Jeremy in that way, but the urge to see just how much of a hold I could have on him was there like a dark thought. I smiled at him, and I found myself wanting to step closer to him, to close a little of that careful distance. But there was an underlying tension to him, as if he wanted to say other things, more direct things, or maybe, he knew something already. It was hard to tell in the dark but he seemed dressed in one of his usual suits, impeccably tailored, compact and elegant. He stood near the door, and the light switch. You could feel the unasked questions like something touchable in the air between us. It was impolite for a fey to ask another direct questions, but, oh, he wanted to ask. Even across the room in the dark I could feel the weight of his gaze, the intensity of it.
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