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Chronicles of Abu Abdul Samad: Indian Army’s “Cold Start”, A Comment
Indian army is the biggest army in south Asia and is also one of the largest in the world. However, its biggest dilemma is Pakistani Armed Forces that are haunting it since the independence of both countries. The active strength of Indian army alone is more than 1,000,000. The army consist of 38 divisions, which are distributed in 5 tactical area commands namely
1. Northern Command which is headquartered at Udhampur and is responsible for Indian Occupied Kashmir.
2. Western Command, which is headquartered at Chandimadir and is responsible for Punjab.
3. Southern Command, which is headquartered at Poona and is responsible for Gujrat and Maharashtra.
4. Eastern Command, which is headquartered at Calcutta and is responsible for counter-insurgency operations in Assam and defence of boarder with Bangladesh.
5. Central Command, which is headquartered in Luckhnow and consists of Indian armys strike elements to take offensive against Pakistan.
In addition to these five commands India is raising a new tactical command christened as North Western Command along with a new Corps (HQ 9 Corps) for the defence of Chicken Neck (working boundary with Pakistan) area where Indians are traditionally weak.
Looking at the deployment of these tactical commands one thing is obvious that out of 6 tactical commands 4 are specifically meant against Pakistan (And Indian Leaders weep about Chinese Threat fooling whom??).
On April 28th 2005, Indian army gave out its new war doctrine named as Cold Start. Formulators of this doctrine revealed that it is specifically for Pakistan. Indian officials and analysts, who are quite excited about it, are predicting that the future Indo-Pak war will be short and decisive one and will be based on info centric concept which US army demonstrated During Iraq Invasion..
The Cold Start doctrine is a combination of fantasy and wishful thinking. Close study of Cold Start reveals that it is modification of General Krishna Swami Sunderejees Proto- German Blitzkrieg doctrine with mixture of Info centric or net work centric concept of modren War.
According to this doctrine the air borne troops and air cavalry units will be dropped behind Pakistani lines and important installations to destroy Pakistani command and defence infrastructure and capabilities. For the said purpose 8 or more integrated battle groups (formed with elements of Army, air force and navy) will under take Blitzkrieg type action against Pakistan.
The war will not exceed 2 to 3 days. The actions will be crisp and violent due to integratation of all intelligence available at tank level. this information shareing at lowest level will allow its forces space and flexibility that will allow manuvers by indian army to be executed in such a speed that objectives will be achieved before the international community will have the chance to intervene.
This doctrine do not aims at the capture of Pakistani territory but at the destruction of Pakistani armed forces and defence infrastructure. The formulators of this doctrine suggest that essence of Cold Start is surprise, mobility and speed achieved by coordinated efforts of services. They say traditional slow mobilisation of forces gives enough time to enemy for taking measures and so surprise is washed out. In future war they say they will not give time to think and react.
Indian planners think that future war will be a limited war (in time dimension) fought under nuclear umbrella but short to nuclear threshold. They say Pakistan will not use nuclear weapons
a) Because Pakistan knows that if Pakistan goes for its nuclear option than it will be wiped out by Indian counter nuclear strikes.
b) Purpose of action will be to destroy not to capture therefore Pakistan will not be able to use its assets.
Indian generals think decisive results can be achieved by close coordination among the three services, which is only possible when all services act under a unified commander. They also think that any blitzkrieg type action requires the revolution in military affairs of India and up gradation of Indian air force and logistic capability.
Few details, which have come out from Indian media and think tanks, suggest that India is looking for some kind of adventure against Pakistan if Indo- Pakistan dialogue fails in the future because of Pakistani insistence that Kashmir issue be resolved according to wishes of kashmiris.
India who has badly failed in controlling freedom struggle in Kashmir, is continuously accusing Pakistan for waging proxy war against it. There is a perception in Indian masses, created intentionally by Indian leadership and media that all the ills of India are due to Pakistan and destruction of Pakistan especially its army is necessary for peace in India.
The biggest problem with Indian political and military leadership is that it always feels unsafe. Indian policy historically is kotalya inspired and is for regional hegemony. In pursuit of Indian dream of Maha Bharat, India supported insurgencies and destructive forces in its neighbouring countries from Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka to unrest in Balochistan, Indian hand is clearly visible. May be its due to these Indian acts against its neighbours that are causing sense of guilt and insecurity in Indian minds.
Pakistan is seen as the biggest threat to Indian aims in the region. Pakistan, who has never accepted Indian hegemony, as a result has always been the prime target of Indian hate and malice.
Where as in South Asia in general, Pakistan is seen as a ray of hope among People against Indian power and domination. The excellent friendly relations of SAARC countries with Pakistan are seen as thorn in the eyes of Indian policy makers.
Indians see Pakistan army, which is defender of ideological and territorial integrity and boundaries of Pakistan, with contempt due to un known inferiority complex. Both friends and foes alike recognize that Pakistan army as one of the best in the world capable of doing unbelievable. At present when Pakistan is an overt nuclear state Indian army and leadership, due to their hate against Pakistan are hallucinating that they can destroy Pakistan and its army.
Indians see them selves as a regional super power and while dreaming so they forget that Pakistan is not Bhutan or Nepal. Indians planners wish to act like Americans but disregard the fact that there is lots of difference between American and Indian capabilities. They for get that Wars are not fought by wishful plannings or on map exercises but are fought and won on the grounds and ground realities sometimes are not as favourable as one likes.
Cold Start is an effort to bring psychological sense of superiority among de-morale Indian troops and nation. Its a fantastic effort to make Indian people fools. There are hundreds of drawbacks in the implementation of this doctrine but the few drawbacks, which any layman can point out, are:
a) First of all Indians are not capable of supporting logistically such kind of operations. Their deficiency in field of logistics became clearly visible during 2002-3 Indo-Pak military standoff.
b) Secondly major portion of Indian air force consists of obsolete planes, which are threat to their own pilots. Indian air force is in shortage of trained pilots and qualitative equipment where as Pakistan Air Force is qualitatively and technologically best compared to any regional air force. Furthermore, Pakistans air defence system is one of the best in the region. Keeping all this in mind question rises how Indians plan to achieve air superiority? When on ground their condition is miserable.
c) Thirdly Pakistan army is not of Stone Age. It is one of the most modern army in the region. Pakistan army is better trained and equipped as compare to Indian army. In this era of modern warfare big army like Indian should not even dream to attempt any large-scale air born or blitzkrieg action when it insists that it is a professional army.
d) How can Indians predict Pakistans reaction? India must understand they are dreaming to undertake action against Pakistan army in Pakistan not in Bangladesh.
It appears Indian army has learned nothing from 2002-3 military standoff. There is possibility that Indians do not know about Pakistani capabilities or they intentionally wish to live in their self-created paradise.
India is emerging as a regional power its leadership must show maturity. Indian army should not speak so loudly about its hegemonic plans and motives because it will damage the peace and prosperity of South Asian region and add fuel in hate against India in neighbouring countries.
In era of globalisation when information flows is uncontrollable. World know what is happening in Kashmir and in other states of India with minorities and other non-Aryan ethnic groups. World knows that what kind of army India have and what is the condition of its morale and discipline.
Chronicles of Abu Abdul Samad: Indian Army’s “Cold Start”, A Comment
Indian army is the biggest army in south Asia and is also one of the largest in the world. However, its biggest dilemma is Pakistani Armed Forces that are haunting it since the independence of both countries. The active strength of Indian army alone is more than 1,000,000. The army consist of 38 divisions, which are distributed in 5 tactical area commands namely
1. Northern Command which is headquartered at Udhampur and is responsible for Indian Occupied Kashmir.
2. Western Command, which is headquartered at Chandimadir and is responsible for Punjab.
3. Southern Command, which is headquartered at Poona and is responsible for Gujrat and Maharashtra.
4. Eastern Command, which is headquartered at Calcutta and is responsible for counter-insurgency operations in Assam and defence of boarder with Bangladesh.
5. Central Command, which is headquartered in Luckhnow and consists of Indian armys strike elements to take offensive against Pakistan.
In addition to these five commands India is raising a new tactical command christened as North Western Command along with a new Corps (HQ 9 Corps) for the defence of Chicken Neck (working boundary with Pakistan) area where Indians are traditionally weak.
Looking at the deployment of these tactical commands one thing is obvious that out of 6 tactical commands 4 are specifically meant against Pakistan (And Indian Leaders weep about Chinese Threat fooling whom??).
On April 28th 2005, Indian army gave out its new war doctrine named as Cold Start. Formulators of this doctrine revealed that it is specifically for Pakistan. Indian officials and analysts, who are quite excited about it, are predicting that the future Indo-Pak war will be short and decisive one and will be based on info centric concept which US army demonstrated During Iraq Invasion..
The Cold Start doctrine is a combination of fantasy and wishful thinking. Close study of Cold Start reveals that it is modification of General Krishna Swami Sunderejees Proto- German Blitzkrieg doctrine with mixture of Info centric or net work centric concept of modren War.
According to this doctrine the air borne troops and air cavalry units will be dropped behind Pakistani lines and important installations to destroy Pakistani command and defence infrastructure and capabilities. For the said purpose 8 or more integrated battle groups (formed with elements of Army, air force and navy) will under take Blitzkrieg type action against Pakistan.
The war will not exceed 2 to 3 days. The actions will be crisp and violent due to integratation of all intelligence available at tank level. this information shareing at lowest level will allow its forces space and flexibility that will allow manuvers by indian army to be executed in such a speed that objectives will be achieved before the international community will have the chance to intervene.
This doctrine do not aims at the capture of Pakistani territory but at the destruction of Pakistani armed forces and defence infrastructure. The formulators of this doctrine suggest that essence of Cold Start is surprise, mobility and speed achieved by coordinated efforts of services. They say traditional slow mobilisation of forces gives enough time to enemy for taking measures and so surprise is washed out. In future war they say they will not give time to think and react.
Indian planners think that future war will be a limited war (in time dimension) fought under nuclear umbrella but short to nuclear threshold. They say Pakistan will not use nuclear weapons
a) Because Pakistan knows that if Pakistan goes for its nuclear option than it will be wiped out by Indian counter nuclear strikes.
b) Purpose of action will be to destroy not to capture therefore Pakistan will not be able to use its assets.
Indian generals think decisive results can be achieved by close coordination among the three services, which is only possible when all services act under a unified commander. They also think that any blitzkrieg type action requires the revolution in military affairs of India and up gradation of Indian air force and logistic capability.
Few details, which have come out from Indian media and think tanks, suggest that India is looking for some kind of adventure against Pakistan if Indo- Pakistan dialogue fails in the future because of Pakistani insistence that Kashmir issue be resolved according to wishes of kashmiris.
India who has badly failed in controlling freedom struggle in Kashmir, is continuously accusing Pakistan for waging proxy war against it. There is a perception in Indian masses, created intentionally by Indian leadership and media that all the ills of India are due to Pakistan and destruction of Pakistan especially its army is necessary for peace in India.
The biggest problem with Indian political and military leadership is that it always feels unsafe. Indian policy historically is kotalya inspired and is for regional hegemony. In pursuit of Indian dream of Maha Bharat, India supported insurgencies and destructive forces in its neighbouring countries from Tamil insurgency in Sri Lanka to unrest in Balochistan, Indian hand is clearly visible. May be its due to these Indian acts against its neighbours that are causing sense of guilt and insecurity in Indian minds.
Pakistan is seen as the biggest threat to Indian aims in the region. Pakistan, who has never accepted Indian hegemony, as a result has always been the prime target of Indian hate and malice.
Where as in South Asia in general, Pakistan is seen as a ray of hope among People against Indian power and domination. The excellent friendly relations of SAARC countries with Pakistan are seen as thorn in the eyes of Indian policy makers.
Indians see Pakistan army, which is defender of ideological and territorial integrity and boundaries of Pakistan, with contempt due to un known inferiority complex. Both friends and foes alike recognize that Pakistan army as one of the best in the world capable of doing unbelievable. At present when Pakistan is an overt nuclear state Indian army and leadership, due to their hate against Pakistan are hallucinating that they can destroy Pakistan and its army.
Indians see them selves as a regional super power and while dreaming so they forget that Pakistan is not Bhutan or Nepal. Indians planners wish to act like Americans but disregard the fact that there is lots of difference between American and Indian capabilities. They for get that Wars are not fought by wishful plannings or on map exercises but are fought and won on the grounds and ground realities sometimes are not as favourable as one likes.
Cold Start is an effort to bring psychological sense of superiority among de-morale Indian troops and nation. Its a fantastic effort to make Indian people fools. There are hundreds of drawbacks in the implementation of this doctrine but the few drawbacks, which any layman can point out, are:
a) First of all Indians are not capable of supporting logistically such kind of operations. Their deficiency in field of logistics became clearly visible during 2002-3 Indo-Pak military standoff.
b) Secondly major portion of Indian air force consists of obsolete planes, which are threat to their own pilots. Indian air force is in shortage of trained pilots and qualitative equipment where as Pakistan Air Force is qualitatively and technologically best compared to any regional air force. Furthermore, Pakistans air defence system is one of the best in the region. Keeping all this in mind question rises how Indians plan to achieve air superiority? When on ground their condition is miserable.
c) Thirdly Pakistan army is not of Stone Age. It is one of the most modern army in the region. Pakistan army is better trained and equipped as compare to Indian army. In this era of modern warfare big army like Indian should not even dream to attempt any large-scale air born or blitzkrieg action when it insists that it is a professional army.
d) How can Indians predict Pakistans reaction? India must understand they are dreaming to undertake action against Pakistan army in Pakistan not in Bangladesh.
It appears Indian army has learned nothing from 2002-3 military standoff. There is possibility that Indians do not know about Pakistani capabilities or they intentionally wish to live in their self-created paradise.
India is emerging as a regional power its leadership must show maturity. Indian army should not speak so loudly about its hegemonic plans and motives because it will damage the peace and prosperity of South Asian region and add fuel in hate against India in neighbouring countries.
In era of globalisation when information flows is uncontrollable. World know what is happening in Kashmir and in other states of India with minorities and other non-Aryan ethnic groups. World knows that what kind of army India have and what is the condition of its morale and discipline.
