Cold Start for Hot Wars?

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Cold Start for Hot Wars?
The Indian Army's new limited war doctrine.

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[SQ8]

Finally, a well balanced look on the Cold start issue and actual ground state.

 

[Shinigami]

a good read. thanks horus

 

[rockstarIN]

A good read..

 

[Levina]

The word "retaliatory" is important.

Dont miss this either..

Sundarji doctrine would 've worked better if the strike corps were not placed far away in central India and were smaller in size.It would not 've taken our strike corps 3 weeks to reach the borders, and in those 3 weeks Pakistan would not 've had the time to appeal to its allies (US) nor would Musharraf 've got time to do U-turn and make his famous speech"Pakistan would not allow any terrorist activity on its soil" or something to that effect.
I'm not a war monger, the coercive diplomacy did work through this op.Parakram but it still had its issues.

The article says "limited war would be risky for the region".
Cold start ostensibly came into being in 2004 and in last 10 years we have not seen any war in the region which proves this assumption in the article wrong.
The article has many contradicting statements like on one side it says cold star doctrine would help India disrupt the Pakistan decision making cycle and on the other side it says cold start would be a retaliatory response.It also says that till date theres no public evidence that integrated battle groups have been formed.

The article rightly concludes that Cold start is still a concept and not a reality.

Overall I liked the article, it was a very neutral article by Walter Ladwig.

 

[Hellfire]

The article was a good read giving a fair view of things as they stand. Although it is slightly outdated now as the things have been moving on either side of the body since probably this article was being researched. The prepositioning of equipment and resources has been undertaken and there has been a drastic reduction in mobilization time required to launch offensive operations both by the pivot and the offensive crops. With the increase in transport assets in India (inclusive of chartered civil aircrafts, trucks and other modes of transport) and construction of multiple highways and upgrading of roads and rails in the operational area, the situation is different. The army has tested its mobilization scheme every year for the past decade and now the fine tuning has been achieved to the extent that they are confident of being able to cross the International Border within 36 hours of mobilization order being given (this figure is for offensive corps; pivot corps which are nearer have lesser time). With the change in center and new government giving thrust to development of capabilities of the armed forces, this will only enhance the capabilities for conducting operations in cold start realm.