SASSI warns of Indian unilateral strikes

[S_O_C_O_M]

SASSI warns of Indian unilateral strikes​

Staff Report
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

ISLAMABAD: South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI) organised a three days' workshop on Monday, which was, inaugurated by Minister of State for Information Samsam Bukhari.

Talking to the inaugural session, Samsam said that India has seemingly war-gamed its strategy since 2004, which is based on the assumption that occupation of limited Pakistani territory, following a surgical military strike, could be used as a haggling chip to force Islamabad to heel. "But I am happy that there is someone (SASSI) who are monitoring whole the current scenario and have courage to aware Pakistanis," he said.

More dangerously, it assumes that it can be done without crossing the nuclear verge, he said, and this doctrine has serious basic flaws. It assumes that Pakistan will accept any Indian military adventurism passively, but if anything, the opposite is true, he said. No government, especially one that is politically weak, can survive without being seen to be reacting decisively in the face of attack, he said. It is also a fallacy that once started the war will remain confined to a small geographic location, he said. He said Pakistan can be expected to strike back in areas of Indian weakness and things are bound to escalate from there.

He further added that we are a strong nation and have a capability to face and fight any aggression against Pakistan. Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons and System are safe and invincible.

Maria Sultan, SASSI DG, in her speech said the main objective of the workshop is to address the core issues and aware nation regarding "Cold Start Doctrine".

The strategy unveiled in 2004 has taken a significant importance with the statement given by the Indian Chief of the Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor in November 2009 that the possibility of a limited war under a 'nuclear overhang' in the region was likely to exist and reality, he said. Stating his reasons he had argued that 'South Asia along with West Asia had emerged as 'one of the epicenters of conflict and instability', and with absence of a common consensus to combat this threat the possibility of 'territorial disputes, provocation by proxy wars, religious fundamentalism, radical extremism, ethnic tensions and socioeconomic disparities' were to further exacerbate the situation on ground, said Sultan. This, the Indian Army chief argued, would invariably link 'sub conventional conflicts to situations leading to preemptive action/strikes under the 'cold start' doctrine'.

The 'cold start doctrine' is based on the concept of pre-emptive strike and it calls for rapid deployment of 'Integrated Battle Groups' comprising major elements of Army with the close support of the Air Force, and if the need arises fronts may be opened and expanded to include Naval operations: the primary thrust of the operations aimed at creating conditions for limited war. These battle groups could be used individually for limited operations, or in conjunction for operations of a greater scale based on the concept of blitzkrieg, she said.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[S_O_C_O_M]

More info on Indian Cold Start Doctrine

http://www.sassi.org.ky/pdfs/Employ...rategy in the aftermath of Mumbai attacks.pdf

 

[zagahaga]

lol could start is what i do with my lawn mower it that dosent happen then there the old way of jsut takeing off the tube and blowing the fuel into the engine but you see what i dident tell you is that once you do that you would not have the right amount of air and fuel mixture in the engine so itll back fire and i dont mean any kind off back fire i mean a big BOOOOM BOOOM and uasually it back fires soo bad that the crank shaft ghets twisted then you ghotta buy a new one or try to fix it by takeing it apart and putting it back together....... do you guys get it ? india wouldent dare to do surgical strikes into paksitan beacuse the response from the other side is going to be tooo hurendious soo i wouldent even do it

 

[Donatello]

SASSI warns of Indian unilateral strikes​

Staff Report
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

ISLAMABAD: South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI) organised a three days' workshop on Monday, which was, inaugurated by Minister of State for Information Samsam Bukhari.

Talking to the inaugural session, Samsam said that India has seemingly war-gamed its strategy since 2004, which is based on the assumption that occupation of limited Pakistani territory, following a surgical military strike, could be used as a haggling chip to force Islamabad to heel. "But I am happy that there is someone (SASSI) who are monitoring whole the current scenario and have courage to aware Pakistanis," he said.

More dangerously, it assumes that it can be done without crossing the nuclear verge, he said, and this doctrine has serious basic flaws. It assumes that Pakistan will accept any Indian military adventurism passively, but if anything, the opposite is true, he said. No government, especially one that is politically weak, can survive without being seen to be reacting decisively in the face of attack, he said. It is also a fallacy that once started the war will remain confined to a small geographic location, he said. He said Pakistan can be expected to strike back in areas of Indian weakness and things are bound to escalate from there.

He further added that we are a strong nation and have a capability to face and fight any aggression against Pakistan. Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons and System are safe and invincible.

Maria Sultan, SASSI DG, in her speech said the main objective of the workshop is to address the core issues and aware nation regarding "Cold Start Doctrine".

The strategy unveiled in 2004 has taken a significant importance with the statement given by the Indian Chief of the Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor in November 2009 that the possibility of a limited war under a 'nuclear overhang' in the region was likely to exist and reality, he said. Stating his reasons he had argued that 'South Asia along with West Asia had emerged as 'one of the epicenters of conflict and instability', and with absence of a common consensus to combat this threat the possibility of 'territorial disputes, provocation by proxy wars, religious fundamentalism, radical extremism, ethnic tensions and socioeconomic disparities' were to further exacerbate the situation on ground, said Sultan. This, the Indian Army chief argued, would invariably link 'sub conventional conflicts to situations leading to preemptive action/strikes under the 'cold start' doctrine'.

The 'cold start doctrine' is based on the concept of pre-emptive strike and it calls for rapid deployment of 'Integrated Battle Groups' comprising major elements of Army with the close support of the Air Force, and if the need arises fronts may be opened and expanded to include Naval operations: the primary thrust of the operations aimed at creating conditions for limited war. These battle groups could be used individually for limited operations, or in conjunction for operations of a greater scale based on the concept of blitzkrieg, she said.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

I put it in bold, italic and underlined it.

For you guys...........


He says they have the courage to tell Pakistan that India might attack them?

Care to tell me what PAF is doing?
Care to tell us how the 10 Corps of PA is doing ?


He wants to show courage, go to Afghanistan. Sheesh man, Indian and cold start, doesn't matter. When Pakistan retaliates, It would be India responsible for starting the war.

Go read up Kargil fiasco. Military victory, political and national blunder.

and oh BTW, Pakistani's sneaked into Kargil because of rugged terrain. No chances of Indians sneaking in from the eastern border that easily.

 

[indushek]

What does this achieve for you by posting such bullshit articles ha?? Even according to you India always tries to play the good boy on the world stage, if so why the **** would we start a war and destroy that image. Do u think we are such a fools. Our plan is to always portray u in bad light and then do our thing, as we are cowards who can never fight a straight war, while u are the bravest. So even if we go by this logic, this is not possible. But no we have post such article and thump ourself about how brave and strong we are right???

 

[RobbieS]

The institute seems more like a mouth-piece of chauvinists. Spreading paranoia and nothing else!

 

[airuah]

your own people blaber some crap.....then your own guys reply to the crap with even more crap while trying to make india responsible for the crap your own people said in the first place.....and all this s said in a (false) sense of superiority and underestimation of your enemy......

yup india is unilaterally gonna strike(this statement is for the sake of keeping you happy by helping you post more crap as a reply)

 

[SurvivoR]

lol could start is what i do with my lawn mower it that dosent happen then there the old way of jsut takeing off the tube and blowing the fuel into the engine but you see what i dident tell you is that once you do that you would not have the right amount of air and fuel mixture in the engine so itll back fire and i dont mean any kind off back fire i mean a big BOOOOM BOOOM and uasually it back fires soo bad that the crank shaft ghets twisted then you ghotta buy a new one or try to fix it by takeing it apart and putting it back together....... do you guys get it ? india wouldent dare to do surgical strikes into paksitan beacuse the response from the other side is going to be tooo hurendious soo i wouldent even do it

Lol Hahahaha... One of the best analogies ever

 

[Tshering22]

Stupid article. Needless warnings that we don't need to pay heed on.