Yeah but War against China is superficial. If you do not believe me, look at China's promises of Aid to India in different kind of projects ...!
Stop making a Mole Hill out of a Sesame Seed ...!
India is not at war with Pakistan either. Its crazy Pakistan at war with India. India can disintegrate crazy Pakistan in just 5 days if she wants.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> India Prepares for a Two-Front War
>
> This isn't just a change in military doctrine—it's a reflection of America's
> declining power in Asia
>
> By DAN BLUMENTHAL
>
> There is one country responding to China's military build-up and
> aggressiveness with some muscle of its own. No, it is not the United States,
> the superpower ostensibly responsible for maintaining peace and security in
> Asia. Rather, it is India, whose military is currently refining a "two-front
> war" doctrine to fend off Pakistan and China simultaneously.
>
> Defending against Pakistan isn't anything new, and Delhi has long viewed
> China with suspicion. But in recent years India has been forced to think
> more seriously about an actual armed conflict with its northern neighbor.
> Last year Beijing started a rhetorical clash over the Dalai Lama's and
> Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visits to Arunachal Pradesh state,
> which China claims as its own. In the two years before that, Chinese border
> incursions into India almost doubled. Not to mention China's massive
> military buildup and concerted push for a blue-water navy.
>
> In response, the Indian military is rewriting its so-called "Cold Start"
> doctrine. Cold Start's initial intent was to provide the armed forces with
> more rapid and flexible response options to Pakistani aggression. The Indian
> military believed that its ground forces' slow and lumbering mobilization
> after the 2001 terrorist attacks on its parliament played to Pakistan's
> advantage: International opinion turned against decisive Indian military
> action. Delhi also worried that its plan to send in heavy forces to weaken
> Pakistan was unrealistic and might well trigger a nuclear response.
>
> So Indian strategists searched for military solutions that would avoid a
> nuclear response but still provide a rapid retaliatory punch into Pakistan.
> The resulting doctrine was built around eight division-sized "integrated
> battle groups"—a combination of mobile ground forces backed by air power and
> tied together through an advanced system of sensors and reconnaissance
> capabilities. The Indian Army would advance into Pakistan and hold territory
> to use as leverage to end terrorist attacks launched from Pakistani soil.
>
> But as China has grown more aggressive, Delhi has begun planning to fight a
> "two-front war" in case China and Pakistan ally against India. Army Chief of
> Staff General Deepak Kapoor recently outlined the strategy: Both
> "fronts"—the northeastern one with China and northwestern one with
> Pakistan—would receive equal attention. If attacked by Pakistan and China,
> India will use its new integrated battle groups to deal quick decisive blows
> against both simultaneously.
>
> The two-front strategy's ambitions go even further: In the long term China
> is the real focus for Indian strategists. According to local newspapers,
> Gen. Kapoor told a defense seminar late last year that India's forces will
> "have to substantially enhance their strategic reach and out-of-area
> capabilities to protect India's geopolitical interests stretching from the
> [Persian] Gulf to Malacca Strait" and "to protect our island territories"
> and assist "the littoral states in the Indian Ocean Region."
>
> Of course the existence of a new doctrine does not make it an operational
> reality. But a cursory glance at India's acquisition patterns and strategic
> moves gives every indication that India is well on its way to
> implementation. Delhi is buying and deploying sophisticated command,
> control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and
> reconnaissance networks; supersonic cruise missiles; lightweight towed
> artillery pieces; and new fighter aircraft with supporting electronic
> warfare and refueling platforms. India has already bought C-130J aircraft
> from the U.S. for rapid force deployment. The navy is planning to expand its
> submarine fleet, to acquire three aircraft carriers, and to deploy them with
> modernized carrier-based fighter aircraft. In addition India plans to deploy
> fighters and unmanned aerial vehicles at upgraded bases on the Andaman and
> Nicobar islands in the eastern Indian Ocean.
>
> India is not looking for a fight with China: It simply understands it is
> prudent to develop a military that can deter Beijing. President Obama's
> accommodating stance toward China and his apparent lack of interest in
> cementing partnership with Delhi have focused Indian minds, as have his
> failure to invest in resources his Pacific commanders need.
>
> While America has a strong interest in sharing the burdens of checking
> China's expansionism, it should be concerned when its friends react in part
> to a perception of American weakness and Chinese strength. Ultimately, the
> U.S. is the only country with the power and resources to reassure its allies
> they need not engage in costly arms races with China. But first the U.S.
> must identify Chinese military power for what Asian allies know it to be: a
> threat to peace in Asia.
>
> *Mr. Blumenthal is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in
> Washington*
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704240004575085023077072074.html
>
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