India has to risk escalation to respond to Pulwama

Strategic restrain, the strategy of choice, has to go

The numbers lend further credence to Jaish-e-Mohammed being Pakistani ISI’s force of choice for ‘big bang’ attacks — force multipliers are fewer in number but carry out the more strategically important attacks. (Image: News 18, own no rights)

The Pulwama attack, which killed 41 Central Armed Reserve Police personnel, was the terrorists’ most dastardly attack since 2001, when it targeted the families of Army personnel. It was the most deadly attack on Indian forces since the Islamist, Pakistani-backed, insurgency in Kashmir…