Posted on 09/21/2016 1:23:46 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
India has completed the first step of preparedness to wage an attack on selective targets inside Pakistan under the Cold Start doctrine.
According to reports, India has completed its first phase preparations to attack selected targets in Pakistan under the Cold Start strategy. Sources also disclosed that although Pakistan will not initiate an attack, it would respond with full force in case of any strike by India.
The armed forces would not let Indians cross the red line, according to well-placed defence sources.
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India has moved military jets and air force personnel to forward air bases to launch surgical strikes as part of the three-phased strategy.
Pakistan has also prepared itself to counter any adventure with full force, they said. The decision to cancel flights to northern areas was taken as a precautionary step.
In a telephonic conversation held a few hours ago, the civil-military leadership expressed satisfaction over Pakistan’s capability to respond to any attack
Measures are being taken with regard to Pakistan’s counter-strategy to defend itself and if an attack is launched from across the border then it would be fully thwarted. The suspension of flight operations in country’s north and sealing of various passages also came as part of the same strategy.
The tensions between the nuclear-armed adversaries have soared recently over deteriorating situation in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK). Over 100 innocent Kashmiris have been martyred and 8000 wounded by the occupying forces in recent incidents of violence.
Pakistan is up for pursuing the case peacefully in the United Nations as PM Nawaz Sharif on Monday and Tuesday held meetings with the world leaders on the sidelines of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly.
But, it seems that the neighbouring arch-rival has some other agenda to prevent Pakistan from raising voice over IoK atrocities by engaging it in a short-term war.
These two get along as well as Israel/Palestine, US/Russia, China/Vietnam
Dont know if the last one still applies.
Yikes
Unless the PRC or Iran helped Pakistan any war between these two would be catastrophic for Pakistan.
India could could absorb loses equal to the entire population of Pakistan
Oh yeah the Vietnameese are afraid of the imposing Chi-coms, always have been.
And with good reason,they do not care to go the way of Tibet.
India would attack Pakistan.... why?
Both these countries have nuclear weapons.
I vaguely remember a war or battle in the 70s when i was a kid
It has been ongoing for hundreds of years...
ABSTRACT In response to the perceived inability of the Indian military to leverage its conventional superiority to end Pakistan's "proxy war" in Kashmir, the Indian Army announced a new offensive doctrine in 2004 intended to allow it to mobilize quickly and undertake limited retaliatory attacks on its neighbor, without crossing Pakistan's nuclear threshold.
This Cold Start doctrine marks a break with the fundamentally defensive military doctrines that India has employed since gaining independence in 1947. Requiring combined arms operating jointly with the Indian Air Force, Cold Start represents a significant advance in India's conventional military capabilities. Yet, despite the Indian Army's intentions, it risks provoking or escalating a crisis on the subcontinent that could breach the nuclear threshold.
Recent military exercises and associated organizational changes indicate that although the Indian Army has made progress toward developing an operational Cold Start capability, particularly in the area of network-centric warfare, the doctrine remains in the experimental stage. Nevertheless, this is a development that deserves further study. As the Indian Army enhances its ability to achieve a quick military decision against Pakistan, the political pressure to employ such a strategy in a crisis will increase -- with potentially catastrophic results.
I have no embarrassment in saying I thought Vietnam was a VERY new country when I started FR :)
2nddivivisionvet set me straight.
I could write maybe 30 pages of things I have learned on FR.
Truly amazing website.
But it can’t be because all conservatives have fifth grade degrees at best /s
LOL! It is an incredible wealth of knowledge! If you are wrong about something you will be set straight! (Not a bad thing!)
It has been a nation separate from India only since the early 1930's.
Maybe the Brits thought that separating the Muslim population from the Hindu population would prevent civil war?
So now we're on the brink of a nuclear exchange - that's some alternative outcome....
“India could could absorb loses equal to the entire population of Pakistan”
The political impact of such loses needs to be evaluated. I suspect that unless a war went spectacularly well, the current government would fall. Also, it is unlikely that China would sit on the sidelines, especially when they want to test their new stealth technology. China could seriously dent India’s ability to defend itself, thus allowing Pakistan to launch a nuclear strike. With China absorbed in that arena other Pacific players might take it upon themselves to move China out of their particular conflict regions. So, with a simple strike of an Indian match that entire part of the globe could go up in flames. This is how, in principle, World War I started. Lawyers call it proximate causation.
So the bottom line is, they've been doing this forever and aren't going to stop any time soon.
Puck Fackistan.
They have hated one another way since before the pakis separated from India. It was that or civil war. The Hindus could not live in peace with Muslims among them. Who does?
The British had nothing to do with the partition. Once they started to withdrawal, the Muslims and Hindus started attacking each other. Muslims did not trust the Congress Party, which had a lock on the post independence government. Over 2,000,000 people died before the British negotiated a partition agreement to slow the killing.
They have since fought several wars. The most recent was the Kargill War in 1999.
But yes, this is not going to stop any time soon.
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