I have a different take on the issue, just as is said, china will fight India till the last Pakistani, same ways India needs to fight its war with Pakistan through a’stan and through other countries/groups that are anti pakistan. Yes when a terror strike happens the emotions are high, but we do need to think out what is best in our interest than get swayed in emotional outbursts and I have my serious doubts that a direct war with Pakistan is ever going to be in our interest.
We have a neighbour in china which is growing by leaps and bounds, as the things stand today, they effectively are 12/13 years ahead of us economically, a difference that we have successfully not allowed to increase for the past almost two decades now, and it has all been possible because we have had a climate where investments can happen, people can have healthy returns on these investments which has yielded us some very good growth rate figures over the years.
The first thing that happens when a war takes place is, the investor pulls out money creating a panic in the financial system of a country, which in it self should be enough to cause a disaster right from flight of money to depreciation of currency which reduces the buying value of a currency which in effect hits out at the inflation to people lining up in front of banks to take out their money so that government does not confiscate that money which totally paralyses the whole system, and all this makes sure the road back to some sort of a sanity to prevail will take a lot of time which could well run into a lot of years.
Now in a war enemy attacks sensitive areas, infrastructure, things of national importance and all these already have had a lot of money invested, so just to rebuild all this will take a lot of time, money and energy. And a war in it self is never cheap, and comes with a huge package of miseries with a lot of disfigured people who get injured and survive for another painful day.
What this will effectively do is set India back by at least a decade and in a worst case scenario by may be two decades from today, and then you will have a bully of a neighbour in the form of china eager to capture arunachal which would be just too happy to see India end up that ways and if seen from their PoV we would have fallen in their best laid trap.
Better strategy would be to finance and arm the enemies of the state of Pakistan to teeth and keep Pakistan bogged down with in its internal conflicts. I doubt anyone here subscribes to conspiracy theories coming out of Pakistan but if one does by any stretch of imagination then India has avenged 26/11 by at least 20 times, with pakistan’s economy in complete doldrums whit a completely demoralized country with not a single shot fired from India, with a growth rate that is expected to touch 9% in another quarter or two, and with a future that is only expected to get better.
Think smart!