To date, in all previous wars, PA armored divisions have fought largely as single divisions. They have never to date managed a serious maneuver warfare strategy.
The current strategy goes something like this:
1. A railway based backbone going north to south.
2. A ditch like a great wall of china running north to south
3. Aim has been to fight India on Pakistani ground in the desert between Punjab and impassable Sindh.
This has been the "strategy" since 1970s I believe.
PA is woefully ill-prepared for any kind of meaningful maneuver warfare but the Indians are equally as bad, so neither side will majorly embarrass the other.
Pak because of the above strategy can be ready for war within 24 hours, much faster than India. Cold Start is an attempt to improve this reaction time but I don't know how effective Cold Start will be in real life.
Maneuver warfare is an industrial scale war. Unfortunately, neither India nor Pakistan has a culture of understanding industrial scale military operations. They buy military equipment from abroad like people buy clothes for marrying their girls.
They have yet to appreciate the importance of local large scale production capabilities. Some semi-retired fat chap will use organizations like KSEW or HIT thinking these are some kind of personal fiefdoms. But because this kind of capacity and way of thinking was never developed, such industrial capacities will remain unbuilt, unused and ineffective.
Certain "favored" divisions will be given the job in a future war to attack the enemy while others will play a supporting role / defensive role. That is the extent of strategy one can expect from the PA, if past performance is anything to go by.
To understand the multi-division, massive, choreographed military maneuvers, done with thousands of tanks, and many more personnel, in coordination with effective artillery, and other arms. This has never truly happened in the Indian subcontinent.
We have had some basic, raw, tank battles, that happened. But these were barely planned effectively and didn't have much meaning in the overall scheme of things. They happened along very predictable lines and without meaningful combined arms, surprise, or even any original maneuver.
