Hands down, it should be India. India has a far more advanced and larger military, and a far larger economy with which to resource and sustain a conventional conflict.

It is difficult, however, to imagine that a sustained conventional conflict could possibly last very long if one were to break out between the two countries. Both are nuclear armed, and there's nothing really to prevent one country from using such weapons in retaliation for any major offensive on the part of the other country.

If one country were to mount a major attack on the other, it would serve as a reasonable cause for the other to mount a nuclear retaliation in the claim of self defense. So I can't really see a major sustained conventional conflict occurring, or remaining conventional for very long, if one were to break out.

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