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India prepares to attack under Cold Start doctrine, Pakistan ready to react
Pakistan Today ^ | September 21, 2016

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.

Read more: Ball in Pakistan’s court to defuse tension after Uri attack: American think-tank

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: india; kashmir; pakistan
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1 posted on 09/21/2016 1:23:47 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki

These two get along as well as Israel/Palestine, US/Russia, China/Vietnam

Dont know if the last one still applies.


2 posted on 09/21/2016 1:51:07 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: sukhoi-30mki; RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; ...

Yikes


3 posted on 09/21/2016 2:34:32 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris

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


4 posted on 09/21/2016 2:51:07 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: dp0622

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.


5 posted on 09/21/2016 3:00:36 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

India would attack Pakistan.... why?


6 posted on 09/21/2016 3:05:08 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Both these countries have nuclear weapons.


7 posted on 09/21/2016 3:05:14 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Joe Boucher

I vaguely remember a war or battle in the 70s when i was a kid


8 posted on 09/21/2016 3:07:02 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

It has been ongoing for hundreds of years...


9 posted on 09/21/2016 3:11:49 AM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: grobdriver
Hmm.. from some think tank:

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.

10 posted on 09/21/2016 3:12:03 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Shady

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


11 posted on 09/21/2016 3:14:08 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: grobdriver
"... why?"

The latest on why

12 posted on 09/21/2016 3:14:12 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: dp0622

LOL! It is an incredible wealth of knowledge! If you are wrong about something you will be set straight! (Not a bad thing!)


13 posted on 09/21/2016 3:27:56 AM PDT by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: Shady
"It has been ongoing for hundreds of years..."

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....

14 posted on 09/21/2016 3:42:54 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Fai Mao

“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.


15 posted on 09/21/2016 4:00:13 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: mikey_hates_everything
Good read, thanks. Better by far than my follow up.

So the bottom line is, they've been doing this forever and aren't going to stop any time soon.

16 posted on 09/21/2016 4:05:32 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: grobdriver

Puck Fackistan.


17 posted on 09/21/2016 4:45:23 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: mikey_hates_everything; grobdriver

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?


18 posted on 09/21/2016 4:54:15 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Psalm 73

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.


19 posted on 09/21/2016 4:58:14 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: grobdriver
Pakistan was created in 1947 which more or less separated the muslims from non-muslims. You know what muslims typically do to non-muslims given sufficient numbers and there's probably historical tribal feuding in the mix as well.

But yes, this is not going to stop any time soon.

20 posted on 09/21/2016 4:58:43 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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