Mr. Modi's political use of the deaths of "martyrs" is not new to India, but we haven't seen it at such a scale since India and Pakistan fought a limited war over Kashmir in 1999.
Since January, the Indian army says, there have been nearly 100 instances of cross-border shelling and for the first time since 1999 when the two sides fought a limited war in Kargil, fire was exchanged in the region.
When nations like France in Algeria or the United States in Vietnam tried to fight a limited war and discovered they did not have enough soldiers, they had to opt for conscription.
Advocates of limited war argued that U.S. interests would be better served if U.S. nuclear strategy allowed for a series of attack options that would constitute a credible threat to the Soviets yet allow the two sides to fight a limited war, if it ever came to that.
But the comments by General Zhu suggest that at least some elements of the military are prepared to widen the conflict, perhaps to persuade the United States that it could no more successfully fight a limited war against China than it could against the former Soviet Union.
Notwithstanding that warning, he's decided to fight a limited war against his critics by talking to "bona fide reporters who want to know about my work".
Thus for the first year and a half of the war, the Lincoln administration fought a very limited war of restoration: the Union as it was before a bloc of Southern states declared itself a confederated nation.
It has fought a number of limited wars—one with China, which it lost, and several with Pakistan, which it mostly won, if not always convincingly and it faces a range of threats, including jihadist terrorism and a persistent Maoist insurgency.
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Since the festival was founded, regional theaters across the country have joined the fight for a limited supply of new plays.
