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Agree with you for the most part. It doesn't explain the kind of nuke build up Pakistan is indulging in.
You think India doesn't desire peace? What can India do to achieve peace short of compromising territorial integrity? What can Pakistan do?
How can we stop this region from becoming a playground for extra regional powers like China and USA?
Vinod bhai,
Sorry to butt in to your discussion with mastan bhai. but it think Pakistans Nuke Buildup is justified according to thier doctrine.
I have been hearing Indo- pak conflict are destined by all the analysts to remain low intensity level conflict under nuclear umbrella... Now the question remains no one has really defined the parameters of low level.. Does low intensity mean entire strike corp (sorry now the IBG full scale assault) by IA or a surprise air raid by PAF or bsf vs Rangers slug fest on a border post.
In the history of modern warfare, no matter how disproportionate adversaries have fought, the results have always been surprising.
Indian perspective:
- With initial 4 decades of socialistic model and non aligned nature coupled nearly bankrupt economy, we never could afford higtech acquisitions or developments.
- Last two decades of economic growth has given Indian establishment the potential to expand its military muscle. Our military planners have fully utilized this sudden spurt to extend to military growth too.
Pakistani Situation (As per my understanding )
- Pakistan is smaller country with lesser resources, and it's political environment has not done its economy any good. Rather than following Models adopted by smaller states who have outgrown bigger states, pakistan's vote bank politics has used anti -india sentiment to an extent along with other internally divisive policies to devastating extent.
- Although pakistan's insurgent tactics were highly sucessfull against soviets, it has not yeilded desired effects against India since last 20 years. Its time for Pakistan to end the support anti-india groups because they have not achieved the desired effects and rather utilize a different method to counter India.
- pakistan has enjoyed technological superiority over india's numerical superiority in cold war ers, but that situation has changed with time. india now stand to gain both technological and numerical superiority over pakistan on paper
Rather than countering India's conventional deployment, It is economically justifiable deterrent for pakistan to expand its nuclear arsenal.
The above statement is very logical on paper, but use of nuclear weapons by both establishment will be with reference to a certain threshold... pakistan's definition and india's definition would not be the same.
If Indian IBG/Strike corp or even a precision air strike is responded by a nuclear attack/ retaliatory strikes will be massive. But the real question to ask here is what will aggravate India to make such an aggressive move.
As we have noticed in past, the inability of PA/intel assets to control taliban activities.. If in future PA is not able to contain so kashmiri group to carry out mumbai like or bigger attack on India, say 5 years from now... it will be very difficult for India not to respond.
What we need now is threat reduction, the only way that can be achieved is eliminating extremist entities which may cross sustainable threshold levels of both countries. this can only be achieved by military to military contacts and understanding.