The parity lobby has undoubtedly recreated the quantitative analysis of the Korean and Vietnam wars where a side armed with nukes was fought with impunity by the other side with conventional weapons. The analysis runs thus. All wars are set off by a Reactionary Power (R) against the status quo power (Q). If the destruction R and Q can inflict on each other are measurable on a scale of 1 to 10, and 10 represents N-holocaust, then Kargil represents, say, 2. If R (Pak) can inflict damage on Q (India) to the tune of -2, will India respond with nukes? If it did, net loss to R would be (-10). In its return strike, Q too would be destroyed (-10). So, say the Pakistani ostriches, why would Q want to trade a loss of -2 for a loss of -10, just for the satisfaction of imposing a loss of -10 on R? Ergo, R can needle Q in small bursts of aggression (up to -2) and Q won't respond with nukes. Hence parity. What induced this logic? A range of faulty signals from India created not so much by bad N-strategy, but an absence of any strategy: conventional or nuclear.