A battlefield like no Other

Siachin the roof of the world.

These are truly idiots. Not the poor guys on the frontline nor the civilians but the sons of bitches who can't agree on a bloody frontier. Pointless killing.

That's a hellish combination of the doctrines of arctic warfare and mountain warfare, pushed the extremes for God only knows what reason. 

But 21st century and India and Pakistan still behaving like it's the dark ages.

I think Paul's right (gosh I need to see a doctor urgently).

Ultimately, who gives a shit about a bloody road and a handful of bloody rivers? It is not the Middle Age anymore when controlling a pass was essential for the fiscal survival of a state. If it was still the case Switzerland would rule Europe�

Now resources are important, but international treaty are designed to regulate their use for every one to benefit from them. Israel itself is getting ready to retreat from Golan despite decades of speeches about how strategically important it was.

What are the Indians gonna do anyway? Prevent the ice from melting during the summer? Build a dam on the K2?

Israel will retreat after it guarantees it controls the flow of the river ( and of course assumes full control on the lake) and it allocates to quotas like the Yarmouk river which though rises from Jordan Israel gives the Jordanias the water not the other way around. Israel even controls the water on the west bank and Gaza. Last month they distoryed several wells because it affet the water supply of Jerusalem. Any sane country will never let it water be controlled by it neighbour and that goes to India and Pakistan, 400 million depend on this region, Kashmir and Northern territories, for their water during the long dry season and in an age of global warming with rain below average for several years, these abandoned areas are even more imortant.

You are most likely 100% correct in your predictions Pikeshot. There has got to be a way we could get you on CNN or other news channels to talk some sense into the rest of the masses. I would watch.

I think Pikeshot is on time and on target with his predictions.  We have made a whole doctrine out of rivers and seas and the littoral areas.  Be forwarned though, it reads like stereo instructions!