⑨Alan Sipress and Thomas E.Ricks，“Report：India，Pakistan were near nuclear war”，The Washington Post，May 15，2002.当时任克林顿南亚事务特别助理的布鲁斯·里德尔在一份报告中也提到，在1999年7月4日的会谈中，克林顿把这一情况告诉了当时也许并不知情的巴基斯坦总理谢里夫。参阅Bruce Riedel，“American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit at Blair House”，Center for the Advanced Study of India（CASI），University of Pennsylvania，Policy Paper Series，2002，inhttp：//www.sas.upenn.edu/casi.
⑩Bruce Riedel，“American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit at Blair House”，Center for the Advanced Study of India（CASI），University of Pennsylvania，Policy Paper Series，2002，in http：//www.sas.upenn.edu/casi.
[11]Farhan Bokhari and May Louise Kazmin，“U.S.General Presses Pakistan on Kashmir”，Financial Times，June 25，1999.
[12]Bruce Riedel，“American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit at Blair House”，Center for the Advanced Study of India（CASI），University of Pennsylvania，Policy Paper Series，2002，in http：//www.sas.upenn.edu/casi.
[13]“Joint Statement by President Clinton and Prime Minister Sharif of Pakistan”，The White House，Office of the Press Secretary，July 4，1999.
[14]2002年12月3日在华盛顿与巴基斯坦一位前军官的谈话。
[15]Bruce Riedel，“American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit at Blair House”，Center for the Advanced Study of India（CASI），University of Pennsylvania，Policy Paper Series，2002，in http：//www.sas.upenn.edu/casi.
[16]Sumit Ganguly，Conflict Unending：India‐Pakistan Tensions since 1947，New York：Columbia University Press，2001，p.119.
[17]Bruce Riedel，“American Diplomacy and the 1999 Kargil Summit at Blair House”，Center for the Advanced Study of India（CASI），University of Pennsylvania，Policy Paper Series，2002，in http：//www.sas.upenn.edu/casi.
[18]Ibid.
[19]Ibid.
[20]Ashley J.Tellis，C.Christine Fair，Jamison Jo Medby，Limited Conflict Under the Nuclear Umbrella，Rand，2001.pp.ix－xii.
[21]Kanti Bajpai，“India‐U.S.Foreign Policy Concerns：Cooperation and Conflict”，in Gary K.Bertsch，Seema Gahlau，and Anupam Srivastava，eds.，Engaging India：U.S.Strategic Relations with the World's Largest Democracy，New York：Routledge，1999，p.194.
[22]Sumit Ganguly，ed.，The Kashmir Question：Retrospect and Prospect，London：Frank Cass and Company Limited，2003，p.1.
[23]这可以从两个意义上理解，从地理意义上，如果从美国绕地球转一圈，南亚正好处于中间处；从战略意义上，美国这时的重点是西欧和东北亚，都远离南亚。
[24]Devin T.Hagerty，“U.S.Policy and the Kashmir Dispute：Prospects for Resolution”，in Sumit Ganguly，ed.，The Kashmir Question：Retrospect and Prospect，London：Frank Cass and Company Limited，2003，p.94.
[25]Dennis Kux，Estranged Democracies：India and the United States，1941—1991，New Delhi：Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd，1993，p.67.
[26]Dennis Kun，The United States and Pakistan 1947—2000：Disenchanted Allies，Washington，D.C.：Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore：Hopkins University Press，2000，p.24.
[27]转引自Dennis Kux，Estranged Democracies：India and the United States，1941—1991，NewDelhi：Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd，1993，p.61.