Tuesday, November 17, 1998
The bus to Pakistan
We seem to be about to get a bus to Pakistan. Better, of course, than another Train to Pakistan. But not much more. With the eyes of the world trained on us, we have confirmed, to ourselves as much as to interested third parties, that our secretaries can bowl maiden overs at each other, but seem incapable of scoring any runs.
The guile to fight a guerilla
`Wars of subversion are won and lost in the minds,' to paraphrase the timeless words of Frank Kitson, by far the greatest military writer on insurgencies and low-intensity operations.
Trial by power
India is right to declare that the American blacklisting of 40 Indian companies and their 200 subsidiary units is inconsistent with world trade rules and that it plans to lodge a strong protest with the World Trade Organisation.
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