Seems nice piece of literature, so I am thanking your post, makes somewhat sense. But...........
1). Your presumption that such an operation will fail is backed by "notion". Past military engagements show nothing of what the Indian military may "try" to do in the future.
2). Cold start, gone wrong or gone right for India, will ultimately go wrong for the whole region if Pakistan decides to use tactical nukes on Indian IBG's (assuming they manage to penetrate Pakistani territory). Such an attack on Indian soldiers (even if on Pakistani soil) will revoke Indian no-first-use policy and such a move will invite Indian retaliation. So nightmares about MAD may come true here if situation goes out of control.
Here, we are assuming that Pakistan decides to take the extreme step of using tactical nukes on our soldiers on your territory. Again a "notion".
US/NATO will come into the picture here.
3). Cold start is not meant to paralyze and crush your forces. Its meant to keep some sections of your strike corps pre-occupied and also to provide some cover time for the Indian strike corps to get into its place. As you know, Indian strike corps will take more time to get the logistics in place.
4). As you say India is capable of unveiling CSD but will have go leaps and bounds, so theoretically speaking India can pull this off.
5). CSD is India's military doctrine but is now not recognized at the government level to fend off US pressure and to deny Pakistan an opportunity not to send forces from its eastern border to its western border.
And lastly, your insistence that India roll back this policy in front of the whole world is baffling and actually can be seen as a excuse for your country to not remove any more troops from the Indian border and engage them in WOT.
Agreed!
A few concerns though; First, 'the operation like this fail is a notion,' well your CSD and Limited War wishful thinking is in sympathy which each other so you cant be really sure that the indian military would not try the CSD next time. But then who knows what 'magic' would india unveil next time it goes to war with Pakistan, but then isnt it the CSD that we are discussing here?
As for the failure of such an operation thing that you mentioned, well no one can be sure about it, can you be? Can you assure everyone that Pakistan wouldnt use nukes the instance the hostilities are broken? i dont know whether this can be or should be done. i dont know even if we should be preparing for a contingency against CSD, i dont know if we actually are preparing for such a thing, neither do i know if we are not preparing for such a thing, even if i knew i would not be discussing it here. So let's leave this job to those who do it best - the int guys. Or you can believe in the links provided by Gubbi and accept what the media tells you. But what if Pakistan use the Nukes, would your CSD goes up in flames? But then let's talk tangibles, is the requirement like air superiority etc and a few others can be met by you at present? Can the mighty CSD be actually applied on ground at present or in future when you meet the requirements? i dont know and if if i know i wont be telling you.
So i dont know what india would do next during war, do you? Moreover, neither would you and i know how Pakistan would respond to it. Things could have been much easier if these secrets could reach the media for us to discuss, wouldnt it? But if that had been the case your and our countries shouldt be required to pay generals
Second, as per your statement and also the article Pakistan might use Nukes against the IBGs, again you consider this as a notion. So the only thing i can pray for is that God this really should be a notion or else we wouldnt have PDF to argue on. Seriously, can you people guarantee the world that Pakistan wouldnt Nuke them? i bet if that had been the case there wouldnt be any discussion left to be done over this topic.
And as for the remaining, well there may be certain things which i might be knowing by the virtue of my placement, but you dont want me to discuss that here.
So this brings us to one thing, if you people want us to go inside N.Waziristan and not use the CSD as the pretext, you either had to convince the world (read US) or take some 'actual' steps and force us to revoke using CSD as an 'excuse', now would you do that is the question of the day.