ABSTRACT
India and Pakistan, two states with limited resources, recognized in 1947/8 and in 1965 that they had to end their respective military campaigns, not because they thought they would lose, but because they thought they wouldn’t win. However the ideological conflict between the two states led them back on the path to conflict – political, diplomatic and military conflict. Both sides remain unreconciled to peace because both sides remain transfixed and gripped by systemic inter-subjectivity.
