14 September 2016

Hot Military Pursuit by Means of a “Cold Start”: India’s Response to Pakistan’s Policy of Sponsoring and Supporting Terrorism

By Lt Gen Philip Campos 

India’s proactive military doctrine against its adversarial western neighbour is a sub-set of the as yet unwritten national security doctrine. The promulgation of the doctrine came about in 2004 due to a realisation that dawned on India’s security planners that a merely and solely defensive doctrine is inadequate to deal with a perfidious neighbour, which decided right at the outset, when it was carved out of India, that the very basis of its existence thereafter would find strength in nurturing enmity and hatred towards India. 

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