Current Indian doctrine along with the political situation at home, India wont start a war by itself, instead it will be purely defensive.
Any military strategist knows that a defender has to hold more power than compared to the aggressor. its the basics of Wars101.
All pakistan can hope is no repeat of 2008 attacks.
As along as all 3 parties involved stand vigilant, instead of provoking others there is no room for a war in the Asian continent.
China and India are more matured and their economical interests dominate the peace meal victories over small unguarded territories.
It only comes to pakistan which provoked 3 times already and lost badly.But the situation today is different than what happened in 47,65,71,98,.. Its the nuclear weapons and conventional dominance of India over Pak.
IF a war does broke between India and pak, India will be readily willing to shed some $50 billion as war expences,can pak do the same? even with support from china?
When its a war between India and Pak, it always ended the same with small clutter noise from China.
The only possibility of defending two fronts is, only when China tries another mis-adventure and invokes pak.
The reality is that, its not 1962 where only a couple of regiments from the border corps took the shots, its 2012.India will be willing to throw everything at its disposal to avoid another embarrassment. Reason is more of a political livelihood to cong than the national interest. Anything unfortunate happens, it will be end of the story for cong in the country.
On the otherhand the 21st century border skirmish wont remain the same, it will spread its wings to all services including airforce and naval.
IN in the Indian ocean is as dominant as china in SC sea.Chinese economy will flutter during the whole period of war due to the choke points in IOR and might extend beyond the war period due to benifit of doubt and mistrust that may occur.
IN will be leading the flak taking on both PN and PLAN in IOR which is absolutely possible and is achievable.
IT all depends on Army and IAF co-ordination tactics on defending the NE and Western fronts.
Given the conventional advantage of IAF over PAF, it will become a one-sided victory.IA can move more regiments to the china front with IAF back-up.
If the IA and IAF duo can hold the enemy at the border for more than a month, I will bet all my property that India is victorious of the two. The reason is spillage of the war into IOR.
If you see how much trade happens in IOR
We are simply hitting 2 birds with one stone.
Unlike 1962 where US was not infavor of India, this time the international opinion in favor of India will be an added advantage with Russia being neutral(thats the best we seek from her)
A hidden ice-berg is that, PLAN has to deal with its own enemies in the south-china sea if India plays the balls and invokes them.
The bottom line is:- Instead of trying to scuttle India by opening two fronts, China herself will be involved with multiple fronts. The power of diplomacy can never be under-estimated in times of war. There are `N' number of countries in east-asia that are seeking a good oppertunity against china.
India at its worst will have to deal only with China-Pak Nexus, OTOH China has to start dealing from Japan-US-Vietnam-Phillipines-Taiwan-Singapore-India-Australia. There will be joint operatus and intelligence sharing between these nations.
A single nation cant fight a group of nations, as is learnt from the WWII under hitler command. China will be left with 2 options henceforth. Withdraw all troops and struck to garrisons and keep its arse shut tight or escalate the conventional to nuclear and get completely wiped off.
Hence ends the fate of second Nazi germany.