Even this source of restraint may dry up because both sides believe that they can hopes to contain and ultimately defeat outside militancy by using its superior military might -- so far without crossing into Pakistan. Pakistan for its part feels it can force India into negotiations aimed at giving up Kashmir by persisting in its low-cost instigation of violence. Since neither side has been able to achieve its objective for nearly two decades, it would be logical to rethink the basic approaches. Instead, Pakistan behaves as though India will have no option but to cave in if kept on the run long enough. An increasingly frustrated India, unable to develop any graduated responses to Pakistan's challenges, feels driven to apply the ultimate sanction of full-scale war.sooner or later achieve their goals by persisting in their present approaches. India