Abstract
International attention is again focused upon South Asia following the testing of nuclear devices and their delivery systems by India and Pakistan during the past year. The Indian subcontinent is widely regarded by security analysts as the most likely theatre for the future use of these weapons of mass destruction. For half‐a‐century, relations between these antagonistic neighbouring states have been characterised by a condition of perpetual confrontation that is punctuated by intense periodic hostilities. The Siachen Glacier dispute is the most severe armed conflict between India and Pakistan since the Bangladesh War of Independence of 1971. The conflict on the Siachen Glacier is in every sense a Krieg‐permenenz (an undeclared but standing war). This is the essential paradox that is the Siachen Glacier dispute — a war between two states ostensibly at peace. The aim of this article is to analyse the Siachen conflict which, outwardly at least, appears to be a waste of criminal proportions that is fought over a mountainous no‐man's‐land of ice and rock. I examine the Siachen Glacier dispute from its genesis to the present within a broader South Asian strategic milieu that is in a state of flux, and discuss prospects for a resolution of the dispute.
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