The spark of the recent conflict between India and Pakistan was a terrorist attack on the Indian side of Kashmir on April 22. India pointed out his neighbor’s story to protect terrorist groups and initiated a cross -border military campaign.
It quickly intensified in four nights of clashes in which the two countries hit more deeply in the territory of the other than the time in half a century, and that was not precedent in how climbing technology.
While the damage on both sides will take weeks and months to count, in part in a media blackout space and extreme misinformation, this is what we know about how clashes develop.
The first shots
In its openness of air attacks, in the hours prior to dawn on Wednesday, India reached the deepest objectives within the enemy territory than in decades, and in all the accounts had hit enough close to the facilities associated with the terrorist. Terrorist.
But it became clear that it did not have a clean blow, but rather a prolonged commitment between the two air forces, both parties with their planes in the sky are directed to each other, with the boundary between them as a line is a line a line that is a line that is a line that Neithenat is a line that Neithenat that is a line that is a line that is said. And India lost airplanes in exchanges, including at least two or its most advanced combat planes.
The cost of strikes was contradictory. India Defense Minister told a parliamentary conference that they had killed “100 terrorists.” Pakistan put the death toll from the initial strikes of India around 30.
The scales
On the second day, as a diplomatic impulse for an intensified disaster, India said that he had frustrated a Pakistani attempt during the night to military objectives A boxes of border cities and villages. In response, he had tasks of the son of action that analysts say that he almost always intensifies a conflict: he hit sensitive military objectives, particularly air defense systems in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
“A movement like that is quite striding and would have worried the Pakistani forces, because in other contexts, eliminating aerial defenses is a prelude to a more serious action,” said Kim Heriot-Darragh, strategic and defense analyst in Austia Eastia. “You warehouse defenses to open a corridor through which airplanes could fly and reach their real goal.”
Diplomats and analysts are not sure how events take place in the morning of Thursday morning, but it is clear that something that had to have changed and was seen as an important change in the climbing pattern. If Pakistan was using a mass of drones and missile raids to try to hit the military sites of India or simply warn India and investigate their air defense systems for something bigger later is an uncle.
The amazing official response of Pakistan, a complete denial that he had done something in the second night, left two explanations for the events: that it was just a survey mission that Pakistan did not want to distract from the real reprisal that it was.
But, nevertheless, India touched the opportunity to damage the crucial Pakistani military sites, and with that all bets were turned off. Pakistan promised that he would retaliate. The only way in which the climb could be arrested was the way it had always happened: with an exterior current that intervened to tell both parties to eliminate it.
Alarm on strategic sites
On Friday and Saturday nights, the situation quickly became an air war with few retention, but in which land forces had not moved.
Pakistan launched an immense campaign of drone and missile strikes, aimed at military bases in several Indian cities, this time with a clear recognition of the Indian side that had not only damaged to some bases and equipment.
There was clear evidence that India had also managed to create damage to the Pakistani side, attacking aerial fields and more defense systems, and also attacking near one of Pakistan’s crucial strategic headquarters.
What alarmed the United States and intensified the diplomatic impulse due to the high fire that was announced on Saturday night, was not only that the two parts were increasing the blows to sensitive sites, but also what the next steps could.
That is ahead
While the scores are still counted and the damage is evaluated, the four days may have fundamentally changed the reality of the conflict in this part of the world towards the war does not contact: barriers from distance to the last stages of the battle, but still lead to climbing and the possible loss of restriction.
The abundance of new general technology, partially cheap drones and ammunition with ammunition, could initially suggest more precision and less human cost. But in this last conflict in India-Pakistan, these technologies still caused a climbing cycle that led to concerns that the use of nuclear weapons could be put on the table.
