Yes, he has made factual errors....but you can see their thinking...wish list
From a previous post....due to the ill designs of this open/discrete enemies...
Pakistan needs to ensure that its nuclear deterrence has the ability to hit any would be adversary......
The above post is in response to a number of situations:
US 'threatened to bomb' Pakistan -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5369198.stm
The US threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" unless it joined the fight against al-Qaeda, President Pervez Musharraf has said.
US threatened to bomb Pakistan back to “the Stone Age” -
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/09/****-s27.html
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s revelation that a top US official said Pakistan would be bombed “back to the stone age” if Islamabad didn’t break its ties with the Taliban and provide logistical support to the US conquest of Afghanistan is yet another example of the mobster methods that have come to characterize US diplomacy, especially under the Bush administration.
Pakistan’s intelligence director was told by the then US Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, that Pakistan could either totally acquiesce to the Bush administration’s demands for “cooperation” in the “war on terror” or “Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.”
, Musharraf claimed that he could not elaborate further on the fact that the US had threatened to all but annihilate his country, which with 150 million people is the sixth largest in the world, because he was honor-bound by the contract he had with Simon and Shuster not to comment until the official launch of his autobiography.
Pakistanis React To 'Stone Age' Claim -
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistanis-react-to-stone-age-claim/
General Ahmed was visiting the United States on the day of the 9/11 attacks and immediately afterwards met with U.S. officials. To this day, the full details of General Ahmed's meetings and accounts of what was discussed, have not been revealed publicly. But Pakistani and western officials have said that General Ahmed's presence in the U.S. helped the Bush administration to quickly convey the urgency of the situation to General Musharraf, prompting Pakistan to agree to join the U.S.-led war on terror.
Bush threatened to bomb Pakistan, says Musharraf -
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/22/pakistan.usa
The Bush administration threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" after the September 11 attacks if the country did not cooperate with America's war on Afghanistan, it emerged yesterday.
In an interview to be aired on CBS television this weekend Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, said the threat was delivered by the assistant secretary of state, Richard Armitage, in conversations with Pakistan's intelligence director.
"The intelligence director told me that (Mr Armitage) said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the stone age'," Gen Musharraf was quoted as saying. The revelation that the US used extreme pressure to secure Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terror arrived at a time of renewed unease in the US about its frontline ally.
Gen Musharraf told CBS he was stunned at the bluntness of the US approach in the aftermath of the attacks. "I think it was a very rude remark," he said. But he yielded to the request.
In light of nuclear deterrence ....and the above examples given....Pakistan should not just be focusing on regional deterrence...i.e.. with India. Pakistan needs to ensure that it has a second strike capability with India (regional) and that the system (TRIAD developing) can penetrate any ABM/Defence shields that India is developing or acquiring. Once India and Pakistan know that it is FUTILE to have a nuclear exchange due to close proximity to each other - then confidence building measures needs to be taken. All disputes needs to be resolved via peaceful means etc. Nuclear war is UNTHINKABLE as it will be catastrophic for the region. Deterrence would have been achieved - there is no need for India or Pakistan to acquire more than 250 nuclear war heads (or what is deemed minimum numbers for deterrence to work - certainly no overkill)...no futile nuclear arms race like the USA/Russia. China/UK and France...are good examples in nuclear numbers.
For Pakistan...it needs to have a system in place that can deter other major powers (even superpowers)....for instance the UK's 4 submarines have enough firepower to put many countries back to the 'stone age' !!!
Pakistan needs (on an urgent basis) to deter big powers (whose motives are very clear - nuclear blackmail, threats, intimidation, causing and funding terrorism and instability within Pakistan). For instance the above examples will shed some light.
Pakistan needs to have something like the Israeli's ...'Sampson option' - i.e.. if we are going down, we are taking you down with us.
If Pakistan is able to develop a system like the UK's/France/China's....full spectrum deterrence (on a minimum basis only)....and has the reach to penetrate any would be aggressor and cause major losses - then that nation would be deterred. Countries such as the USA may be able to annihilate Pakistan in a full grown war, but If Pakistan has the capability to hit them hard (potential stone age)....then DETERRENCE will work.
Source:
https://defence.pk/threads/will-pakistan-now-seek-nuclear-submarines.430092/page-6#ixzz4GGP2bVx8
