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An Atlas of the 1971 India-Pakistan War. Ry John II. Gill. Washington: National Defense University, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies Occasional Paper, 2004. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Pp. 112. Available at http://wwvv.ndu.edu/nesa/index.html.
The 1971 India-Pakistan War did not settle Indian security as it created Bangladesh. And that in one sense greatly eased Pakistan's defense conundrum-not having two parts on cither side of a hostile India.
In his summation the author overlooks the fact that the declaration of the 1947 partition would leave New Delhi the insoluble problem of a huge Moslem minority, not to mention having to...