Hello, Warriors! India had witnessed five major wars since independence and four of them involved Pakistan.
With Pakistan believed in sponsoring the terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba against India, India has become more protective of its boundaries and started a doctrine in case of a possible war against Pakistan.
‘Cold Start’ is a military doctrine developed by the Indian armed forces for use in a possible war with Pakistan. It involves the various branches of India’s military conducting offensive operations as part of unified battle groups. The Cold Start doctrine is intended to allow India’s conventional forces to perform holding attacks in order to prevent a nuclear retaliation from Pakistan in case of a conflict.
Here’s everything that you need to know about it today:
- Cold Start Doctrine was developed as the limitations of the earlier ‘Sundarji Doctrine’ was exposed after the attack on the Indian Parliament.
- According to the Cold Start Doctrine, battle Groups will be well forward from existing posts. India’s elite strike forces will no longer have to wait for the right time to launch a retaliatory attack.
- The Doctrine, ‘Cold Start’ focuses on a swift response, that neither the Pakistani Army nor the Indian political leadership, will have the time to react.
- The objective of the Cold Start Doctrine is to launch a retaliatory strike against Pakistan inflicting significant harm on the Pakistan Army before any international community could force in for a ceasefire.
- Cold Start Doctrine will involve limited, rapid armoured thrusts, with infantry and necessary air support.
- A smaller battle group will move quicker and push into Pakistani territory within hours, preventing the enemy from launching a counter-attack.
- Post the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, Indian government took a decision not to implement the Cold Start Doctrine. This was to defeat the strategic goals of Pakistan to redirect the attacks of other Islamist militant groups attacking Pakistan to India.
- The doctrine contemplates moving up to eight independent battle groups with their own armoured and mechanized brigades near the forward positions instead of depending on strike corps that are based deep in the heart of the nation.
There a large possibility that Pakistan may use the nukes in case, this doctrine comes into force. But, India is no less of nuclear warheads which could wipe off Pakistan’s map from the globe and Pakistan do have a good knowledge of it.
For the time being, let’s just hope for ‘Aman ki Asha’.
