Reports were coming from South Asia and abroad that India had deployed a number of nuclear weapons to forward airbases near the Pakistani border for its precision-strike Jaguar fighter-bombers. Pakistan, it was rumored, had a number of f-16s with nuclear bombs ready to take off at a moment’s notice at Chaklala airbase. Localized clashes that got out of control could quickly escalate into division-level, then corps-level fighting, then to all-out war along the 1,000-mile (1,600-km) front from the Arabian Sea to Tibet. While confronting Pakistan, India must also maintain large numbers of troops on the borders with Chinese-ruled Tibet, and garrison rebellious Kashmir, Assam, and the tribal states of India’s far eastern border with Burma. Pakistan, by contrast, need only use light infantry units to watch its borders with Afghanistan and Iran, concentrating its best forces on the Indian front. Pakistan can deploy two armored divisions, and about fourteen or fifteen infantry divisions or division equivalents.