“Army’s mother document” says growing Indian military power “disturbs strategic equilibrium of the region”
Pakistan’s official Army Doctrine calls on the country to “invoke disproportionate responses” in future wars with India, a copy of the document obtained by
TheHindu has revealed. “The causes of conflict with the potential to escalate to the use of violence,” the classified internal document states, “emanate from the unresolved issue of Kashmir, the violation of treaty arrangements on sharing of natural resources, and the organised and deliberate support by external powers to militant organisations.”
The December, 2011, Doctrine does not name any country as a threat, but Pakistan has accused India of seeking to block its access to Indus waters, and backing terrorism. The Doctrine describes itself as the “army’s mother document” and “the fountainhead for all subordinate doctrines.”
Indian military sources told
TheHindu the study was commissioned in the summer of 2008, soon after former chief of army staff General Pervez Kayani took office. It evolved through intensive discussions of the Kargil war of 1999 and the near-war that followed the December, 2011, terrorist attack on Parliament House
Georgetown University scholar Dr. C. Christine, author of a forthcoming book,
Fighting to the End, says the Doctrine confirms what scholars have long known. “It tells us several interesting things,” she says, “among them that the Pakistan army sees Indian military modernisation as a threat, but that they also think nuclear weapons will insulate them from the consequences of pursuing high-risk strategies, like backing jihadist clients.”
Future wars, the Doctrine states, “will be characterised by high-intensity, high-tempo operations under a relatively transparent battle-space environment.”
Pakistan army warns of ‘disproportionate response’ in future wars - The Hindu[/quoted]
If india is a lumbering Elephant, then Pakistan is a rat. Irritating no doubt but can never be the strategic danger. What ever tactical feints it conducts on the border to gain attention, it always knows and understands that the Indian state has the ability to quickly end the experiment called Pakistan. In other words, India is a strategic danger to the Pakistani state while to India, Pakistann is at best an irritant. So bhaiyon, do not lose sleep over a bed-bug. Just get your baygon out!!!!