Sarah Paine

But as a result of the 1971 war, where Pakistan tries to overturn the elections, here you have an Indian defense analyst, Suram Maniam, saying, the Pakistani decision to overturn its elections by deploying the army to East Pakistan...

gave India an opportunity the like of which will never come again.

And what they did is they armed insurgents in East Pakistan, then sent the conventional army in, and that was it for Pakistan in East Pakistan over.

The interaction for Russia works a little better.

For Russia and India, it's really quite a good relationship.

What Russia offers to India, not only military and economic aid, but also very useful vetoes on the UN Security Council.

India does not want plebiscites in Kashmir that it might lose.

So it gets the Soviet Union to veto those things.

So there are no plebiscites.

And then as India is trouncing Pakistan in the 1971 war, the United States wants them to

India, no way.

India wants to finish the job, so it gets the Soviet Union to veto that one, and India does indeed finish the job.

And meanwhile, for Russia, India's really useful.

It's a good counterbalance for China.

So theirs is rather a beautiful relationship.

They have very cordial relations.

Okay, so I think I've now covered the playing field, right?

And I've covered the players and teams and their problems with interacting, that's very difficult.

Now for some of the plays and the instruments of national power.

And here's the menu of choices.