Posted by Dr. Gopal Unnikrishna Kurup
India has adopted dangerous military doctrines. This will compel Pakistan to take several counter measures to preserve credible deterrence, says Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
What this means ,or portends for India, can be seen in the statement of a senior Pakistani official earlier in the build up to Obama- Sharif meeting, according to which Pakistan’s battlefield tactical nuclear weapons were aimed at offsetting India’s “cold start” military doctrine of lightning fast, all-in offensive using its overwhelming conventional warfare advantage. That was the context of Sharif’s reference to “credible deterrence.
Whether this, together with his warning of real possible escalation of hostility by India, was an overshot or crying-wolf antic, to push Obama in to mediation between the two countries, India cannot dismiss the mindset of Pakistani establishment which can air such a threat.
We have to constantly remind ourselves of the jihadic growth and spread of Islam and the culture of violence as a means of reacting to situations not to that faith's liking, or for achieving its thoughtless aspirations that are driven by sheer bigotry. A good chunk of the heartland of Arab world is engulfed in internecine and civil wars. If such a calamitous situation has not yet befallen Pakistan, but it merely remains the epicenter of terrorism of kinds good to them, but bad for India, and bad to them and all the rest, the reason lies in Pakistan's original Indian ethos that in its dna, to a considerable extent. Due to centuries of cohabitation with the Hindus and the derivation of the bulk of Muslim population from conversions of ethnic Hindus, the Islam jihadic temperament, and violence that also deflects in to fissiparous internecine and civil wars have been tempered. Tempered but not conquered, leaving the core susceptible to mutation back to the original bizarre. To the original single pointed blind violence, unheeding of consequences, of the soldier of Allah kind.
A Semitic theocratic state by implication is autocratic, and in the case of Islamic one, driven by Sharia law which is despotism by the clergy. Modern principles of statehood become subservient to Sharia, leading to lopsided and dangerous policies. That, it might have the seeds of self-destruction never enters in to reckoning so long as it is seen as bidden duty dictated by faith. That is the ominous foreboding plausibility that lurks in such utterances. This mindset has to be factored in to India's counter strategy.
The bottom line is that we have to keep our powder dry, more explicitly
, our atoms alert. Pakistan by reliable accounts is the fastest growing atomic weapon power and is headed to the 5th position in the world. The Indian government over the years has never taken the people in to confidence on this issue. It is time that they do that to a great extent.
The 'Cold Start' and the Stupid Start
What this means ,or portends for India, can be seen in the statement of a senior Pakistani official earlier in the build up to Obama- Sharif meeting, according to which Pakistan’s battlefield tactical nuclear weapons were aimed at offsetting India’s “cold start” military doctrine of lightning fast, all-in offensive using its overwhelming conventional warfare advantage. That was the context of Sharif’s reference to “credible deterrence.
Whether this, together with his warning of real possible escalation of hostility by India, was an overshot or crying-wolf antic, to push Obama in to mediation between the two countries, India cannot dismiss the mindset of Pakistani establishment which can air such a threat.
We have to constantly remind ourselves of the jihadic growth and spread of Islam and the culture of violence as a means of reacting to situations not to that faith's liking, or for achieving its thoughtless aspirations that are driven by sheer bigotry. A good chunk of the heartland of Arab world is engulfed in internecine and civil wars. If such a calamitous situation has not yet befallen Pakistan, but it merely remains the epicenter of terrorism of kinds good to them, but bad for India, and bad to them and all the rest, the reason lies in Pakistan's original Indian ethos that in its dna, to a considerable extent. Due to centuries of cohabitation with the Hindus and the derivation of the bulk of Muslim population from conversions of ethnic Hindus, the Islam jihadic temperament, and violence that also deflects in to fissiparous internecine and civil wars have been tempered. Tempered but not conquered, leaving the core susceptible to mutation back to the original bizarre. To the original single pointed blind violence, unheeding of consequences, of the soldier of Allah kind.
A Semitic theocratic state by implication is autocratic, and in the case of Islamic one, driven by Sharia law which is despotism by the clergy. Modern principles of statehood become subservient to Sharia, leading to lopsided and dangerous policies. That, it might have the seeds of self-destruction never enters in to reckoning so long as it is seen as bidden duty dictated by faith. That is the ominous foreboding plausibility that lurks in such utterances. This mindset has to be factored in to India's counter strategy.
The bottom line is that we have to keep our powder dry, more explicitly
, our atoms alert. Pakistan by reliable accounts is the fastest growing atomic weapon power and is headed to the 5th position in the world. The Indian government over the years has never taken the people in to confidence on this issue. It is time that they do that to a great extent.
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