Indian jets launched airstrikes on nine sites inside Pakistan overnight in retaliation for a militant group’s attack on mostly Indian tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir two weeks ago. The struggle over the region of Kashmir has alternated between restive quiet and war between India and Pakistan in the past. Shashank Joshi, the defense editor for The Economist and visiting scholar at the King’s College war studies department in the UK, explains what’s happened and the dynamics which could lead to escalation or containment.
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