Outlier Munitions: Abundance Year Episode 1998 (audio: noxsoma.substack.com)

Full Metal Ox Day 1933
Monday 15, June 2026
Abundance Year Episode 1998
Noxsoma Life Camp:
Outlier Munitions
Ubiquity
Untamed Universe
Life and minds of the ethnically ambiguous.

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The 130 Years, (and counting) War – Part 5

The India-Pakistan wars are a direct, bloody consequence of the British Partition of 1947. This is the method of Anglo-Saxon savagery and cultural manipulation. This tactic didn’t start in 1898, and was not originated by the English, the Germans, or the Prussians. It’s a tactic adopted by Power to remain in power. It could arguably be traced back to the Romans, or even further. It’s such a fundamental strategy it’s difficult to imagine that there was ever a time when it was not applied.

Have you see the cartoon strip where the King is in his castle looking worriedly down at an angry mob of serfs, some of whom are carrying torches and others in the mob are carrying pitchforks? The King’s vizier says something like, “Don’t worry, we’ll simply tell the pitchfork-people that the torch-people want to take away their pitchforks.”

The loss of The British Empire’s “Jewel in the Crown” was a devastating loss on many levels. And there was no way that the country would be unified. Of course, India would be a threat to the empire. So it had to be split in two.

The 1947 Partition wasn't just a division of land, it was a hurried, catastrophic event that hard-coded conflict into the region's DNA. A British lawyer, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, was given just five weeks to draw the new borders, despite never having visited India before. This process triggered one of the largest mass migrations in history, with up to 15 million people displaced and an estimated one million killed in communal violence.

The most explosive legacy of this was the princely state of Kashmir. Its population was majority Muslim, but its Hindu ruler chose to accede to India. This decision lit the fuse for the first Indo-Pakistani war in 1947-48, a conflict that never really ended.

Here are the major wars that followed, all stemming directly from this British-drawn partition.
First Kashmir War (1947-1948). Dispute over the accession of Kashmir to India or Pakistan. Ceasefire brokered by the UN, establishment of the Line of Control (LoC) dividing Kashmir.
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Another major war fought over the disputed Kashmir region. Stalemate. UN-brokered ceasefire, no permanent territorial changes.
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Independence movement in East Pakistan, leading to a massive refugee influx into India. Decisive Indian victory. Pakistan surrenders; creation of the new nation of Bangladesh.
Kargil War (1999). Pakistani forces and militants infiltrate Indian-held territory in the Kargil district of Kashmir. India regains control of territory; conflict highlighted the dangers of a nuclearized conflict zone.

India vs. China. A Different Kind of Rivalry.

India and China have not fought the same kind of recurring, large-scale, declared wars as India and Pakistan. However, the statement that India, "hasn't fought any significant wars" against China requires a small but important clarification. The conflict is significant, but it is a rivalry defined by one major war, several major crises, and a long-standing border dispute, rather than repeated conventional wars.

The core of the conflict is a 2,000-mile un-demarcated border, much of which is a legacy of British imperial cartography. The British proposed the McMahon Line as a border, which China has never accepted.

The Major Conflict and Crises.
The Sino-Indian War of 1962. This is the one major war between the nations. After years of border skirmishes and Indian forward-policy patrols, China launched a decisive two-pronged offensive. The war lasted only a month, but resulted in a stunning defeat for India. China then unilaterally declared a ceasefire and withdrew to what it considered its original positions, but the defeat permanently reshaped Indian defense and foreign policy.

The 1967 Clashes (Nathu La & Cho La). The 1962 war did not end the conflict. In 1967, serious border clashes erupted in the Sikkim sector. The fighting involved significant casualties on both sides and is considered the next most serious crisis after 1962.

Post-2020 Crisis (Galwan Valley). In 2020, a brutal hand-to-hand combat clash in the Galwan Valley resulted in the first combat deaths on the border in over 45 years (at least 20 Indian soldiers and 4 Chinese soldiers). This event was a major escalation, leading to a continued military buildup along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), and a freeze in diplomatic relations. Scholars view this as one of the most serious crises since 1967.

In short, while India has not fought a conventional, multi-front war against China, the rivalry is intense and punctuated by a major war (1962) and recurring, deadly border crises. The difference in scale stems from the nature of the dispute. with Pakistan it's a territorial and ideological dispute over Kashmir; with China it's a dispute over the precise location of a long, largely uninhabited, high-altitude border.

Our framework remains intact and is even strengthened by adding these conflicts. The India-Pakistan wars are a textbook example of a post-colonial conflict directly engineered by a hasty imperial exit. The Sino-Indian rivalry, while more complex, is also heavily defined by the colonial-era borders and strategic calculations the British left behind. The "ethos" of drawing lines on a map with little regard for human geography is the common thread.
We don’t have very long, at this point, until history will mark the 130th Anniversary of the start of this Long-Ass War. Currently, if we can believe anything we hear or read from any source, Russia is finishing up in Ukraine, while Iran continues to pound, (with missiles), US bases in the Persian Gulf region as well as targets in Israel.

We began this exploration with a trip of several hundred years into the future. An optimistic, but not terribly Utopian perspective of a society not as steeped in war-mongering hysteria as our current era. As author Michael Livingston, (Bloody Crowns/ The 200 Years War), essentially doubles the time frame of the “Hundred Years War,” our future historians might well connect and condense all military operations, regardless of their euphemistic political descriptions, temperature, or strategic goals, as a single global war for dominance, all linked in one way or another to Not-so-Great Britain.

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