That is pulling the punches below the dhoti. You just ruined lahori fish for me.
Fast deployment for CSD is logistical call. The holding corp with Pivot Corp deployment has not happened till date.
If there is any real CSD,The good general said "There is nothing like Cold Start. But we have a 'proactive strategy' which takes steps in a proactive manner so that we can achieve what our doctrines and strategies," . Opn Vijay Bahva was to validate deployment withing 48 hrs and it was not just IBG but the entire strike corp. Allocation of strike corp deployment is fluid and dynamic and can be closer to the concept of IBG, in sudarshan shakti, the integrated battle theater was tested out, no pivot corp formation.
But I wonder why doesn't IA give the CSD hoopla a little more fodder, it seems to drum up big responses from PA.
Tell that Fake Fish seller at some Bombay Brasserie here then. The man refused to acknowledge the lineage of the dish.
At the same time, Vijayee Bhava had well laid out logistics assets already in place to "rehearse" the exersize. The rest is still pretty much experimental and more importantly, sits without the correct resources to implement it.
The Air Force may have taken the lead in rearmament followed by the IN, but the IA is still well short of its equipment and "thinking" manpower needs to undertake cold start. It can however take solace that a similar dearth of "Thinkers" currently exists within the PA.. but the internal conflicts are changing that rapidly.. every new Lt out of Kakul and soldiers in general today gets a baptism of fire in actual combat... and that is one experience that the IA cannot provide on that scale anytime soon.