Personal Ideas About Cold Start`s Problems

[Apollyon]

This calculation is fraught with risks. In fact I don't think any reasonable democratic country will hinge the lives of millions of its population on a calculation that the other country will not lash out and throw at you everything it has if you invade it...

I think if Indians get an inkling of Pakis about to breach the nuke threshold they would do a preemptive Nuke strike, no doubt to limit the casualties on their side .!

 

[asianobserve]

Well, once the point of no return is crossed then that is bound to happen. Then what next? Who do you think will win? Pakistan is already almost in stone age...

 

[Bhadra]

I think if Indians get an inkling of Pakis about to breach the nuke threshold they would do a preemptive Nuke strike, no doubt to limit the casualties on their side .!

Indians will never initiate the nuclear exchange because India is a Dharmic state and Palistanies are on the side of adharma. They are Rakshasas......

Kautilya siad never state what you have to do....

 

[Bhadra]

Well, once the point of no return is crossed then that is bound to happen. Then what next? Who do you think will win? Pakistan is already almost in stone age...

Then stones will also melt in Pakistan... it will be rendered stoneless...

 

[Decklander]

Do we really need to do CSD after winning the river water sharing award in COA? They chose to eat grass to develop nukes, unfgortunately they wont even have the grass to eat to survive. They will now kill eachother and eat eachother to survive. This award effectively means that India can divert and hold back water from Pak and convert their lands into deserts.

 

[sayareakd]

Well, once the point of no return is crossed then that is bound to happen. Then what next? Who do you think will win? Pakistan is already almost in stone age...

Well they have death wish and wants to commit suicide but they want to make sure that we will be hurt to max. We will do what we have to, they will do what they want to.

 

[gokussj9]

This award effectively means that India can divert and hold back water from Pak and convert their lands into deserts.

And fulfill their dream of becoming part of greater middle east rather than Indian subcontinent.

 

[t_co]

Do we really need to do CSD after winning the river water sharing award in COA? They chose to eat grass to develop nukes, unfgortunately they wont even have the grass to eat to survive. They will now kill eachother and eat eachother to survive. This award effectively means that India can divert and hold back water from Pak and convert their lands into deserts.

Wait, wait--if India's plan for peaceful coexistence involves dehydrating all the Pakistanis to death (or forcing them to eat each other), from their point of view, wouldn't they become indifferent between such a peace and fighting a nuclear war? Is that what India wants--to push Pakistan closer to the precipice?

 

[Singh]

This calculation is fraught with risks. In fact I don't think any reasonable democratic country will hinge the lives of millions of its population on a calculation that the other country will not lash out and throw at you everything it has if you invade it...

CSD is not an official doctrine, but its an evolving military counter-response to Pakistani state sponsored terrorism.
If Pakistan thinks by running a Jihad factory, it doesn't risk its doom, then it'll never stop.

Look up Kargil. Clinton was convinced that India will fire nukes, and will happily take destruction of Pakistan even if it means destruction of N. India.

 

[Singh]

The issue is, there is no sort of advantage India could gain that could tilt the negotiating odds in its favor that would not induce panic in Pakistan. Pakistan's own General Staff has already signalled as much, given that they're delegating nuclear firing authority to corps-level commanders in the event of a general conflict. Ergo, the logic of CSD is self-defeating. That's what I've been trying to say for the past 20 pages, but it still seems some commenters believe they can have the cake of an "advantageous negotiating position" and eat the cake of "keeping the conflict non-nuclear". They can't. You either go heavy, or not at all.

Is India willing to risk nuclear war to punish Pakistan for a terrorist attack? That's the question India's policymakers need to answer.

The question is : Does Pakistan think that running the Jihad factory not result in the ultimate punishment ?
In the future there maybe an opportunity for India to actually gets its CSD (or other doctrine) right, and for Pakistan to pay the price. We have time, increasing resources, and depleting patience on our side.