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Freezing the fighting : military disengagement on the Siachen Glacier / Samina Ahmed, Varun Sahni.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Sahni, Varun, author.
- Series:
- Cooperative Monitoring Center occasional paper ; 1.
- Cooperative Monitoring Center Occasional Paper; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disengagement (Military science).
- Genre:
- Online resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (36 pages) : map.
- Other Title:
- Military disengagement on the Siachen Glacier
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque, NM : Cooperative Monitoring Center, Sandia National Laboratories, 1998.
- Summary:
- Since 1984, India and Pakistan have confronted each other militarily for control over the Siachen Glacier and its approaches in the eastern Karakoram mountain range, adjacent to the borders of India, Pakistan, and China. The longest-running armed conflict between two regular armies in the twentieth century, the conflict in Siachen has resulted in hundreds of casualties, mainly because of adverse climatic conditions and harsh terrain. The economic cost of sustaining a conflict in that geographically remote and climatically inhospitable region has also been extremely high for both countries. Past efforts by India and Pakistan to find a mutually acceptable solution have failed, mainly because of mutual distrust and suspicion. This paper examines Indian and Pakistani perceptions, preference, and policies, and identifies options for resolving the conflict. This paper also identifies the most appropriate verification and monitoring technologies to assist policy-makers in ensuring agreement stability and compliance. While a future agreement on resolving the dispute will depend, above all, on the political will of the Indian and Pakistani leaderships, adequate, appropriate verification and monitoring mechanism will enhance their ability to reach a sustainable and durable accord of the Siachen conflict. 1 fig.
- Notes:
- Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information.
- "March 1998."
- "SAND 98-0505/1."
- "UC-900."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from title page (Sandia, viewed Apr. 23, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 68429956
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