Sarah Paine

So two big topics.

One is intervening in someone else's problems, a cottage industry for the United States.

And also before you do that, you really ought to check out the alignments.

Who's the primary adversary of whom?

How long has it been that way?

And also ask these questions about all the neighbors and anyone who might want to crash the party along with you.

It's also a story of a series of limited wars.

What's a limited war?

It means it's for something less than regime change.

So however it turns out, the governments that started that war are still in place.

And two of them resulted in

quick victories, the ideal in warfare.

The first one was the Sino-Indian War of 1962, and the other one was the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971.

And these wars changed things in many short-term expected ways, and then in many long-term, highly unexpected ways.

So here's my game plan, and it's literally a game plan.

I'm gonna start out with the pivotal decisions made by different players that then once they're made, certain things are foreclosed and certain things are possible.

And this is the playing field that's delimited by these pivotal decisions.

And then I'm gonna look at the teams.

Some allies were prime allies, others were sub-prime, and they mixed and matched over time.

So then I'll do teams, and then I'll do the game, the interaction, and then at the end I'm gonna do the plays, some of the techniques and things that you can do to play this game.