The hard reality is that India pretty much lost the 2002 confrontation with Pakistan, if nothing else it showcased to the entire world where exactly the Indian military might stands with respect to all its tough talk against Pakistan.
India amassed 1 Million troops, which were sent quietly packing back to their barracks after 10 months of saber rattling. Agreed that one of the problems with India was that it took them a few months to build up its forces along the Pakistani border, but India used this as an excuse to make up for their lack of ability to invade Pakistan.
Cold Start doctrine was created for some self-assurance that this is what is wrong and now somehow magically it has corrected itself. But the strategy still discounts two things. 1) India cannot take on the Pakistani Army in a defensive role. 2) Surgical strikes are a myth, nothing short of invasion of Pakistan is required, Pakistan will opt to respond a cruise missile strike with 10 of its own on IAF bases. Pakistan will opt to respond with nukes if Indian army makes an incursion into some village across the Punjab border under the guise of attacking a militant camp. Pakistan's stated deterrence is disproportionate attacks.
Your media is known to report even a mere border incursion or ceasefire violation like total war ! How come they aren't reporting this infrastructure thing ? 
So spare us this mental masturbation ...
) or a total war ... There's no in-between ...
