Ishtiaque Alam is a young
scholar and researcher of
international affairs.
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Nonetheless, Indian army has
announced a new limited war
doctrine in April 2004, known as
‗Cold Start‘ which will allow the
army to mobilize troops and retaliate
to challenges posed by Pakistan. This
doctrine aims to, in the words of
Walter C. Ladwig, ―….to establish
the capacity to launch a retaliatory
conventional strike against Pakistan
that would inflict significant harm on
the Pakistan Army before the
international
community
could
intercede, and at the same time,
pursue narrow enough aims to deny
Islamabad a justification to escalate
the clash to the nuclear level.‖ To
operationalize this doctrine Indian
armed forces has started massive
scale
of
modernization
and
reorganization of offensive powers.
India‘s rivalry with Pakistan and
contentious relations with China with
regard to Arunachal Pradesh help
breed a notion, as a scenario, of
―two-frontal war‖ by many Indian
security analysts. Although th