Its really interesting to hear that from an Indian perspective you still believe in cold start as the best option to strike Pakistan.
I thought once tactical nuclear weapons got mentioned it pretty much ended the idea of using cold start as a doctrine to start war because the norm around the world is once nuclear weapons are deployed as a deterrence enemies dont still use the same tactic. they have to pen other plans as nuclear conflict will be too difficult to explain to the world why the countries still went to war when the lives of future generations were at stake.
Say if US wanted to strike Pak it would just use its service fleet thousands of miles away to pick off targets using missiles, something like cold start would mean them risking thousands of lives occupying some dessert area that has no real significance to the country.
Also, what do you think about PA response of cold start, to not engage on an all out assault on indian strike corps who have intruded into Pak and respond by sending its strike corp into vulnerable Indian territory over the LOC, let the chest thumping and national anger of revenge die out in both nations after couple of days, wait for the international world to interfere (which they will at the thought of the war turning Nuclear) and then negotiate a deal to retreat from each others captured land. Your opinions?
Thanks