Indias Military Strategy

This Book Explores What Military Strategy Is And How It Is Interconnected With Policy On One Hand And Military Operations On The Other. In The Process, It Traces The Transformation Of The Notion Of Strategy From Its Original Military Moorings To A More PolicyOriented AndInfluenced Conception And Elaborates Upon A Tripartite Framework Of Policy, Strategy And Doctrine To Think About, Understand, And Analyse The Use Of Force. The Book Explores The Politics Of IndiaPakistan Conflict In Order To Root The Study Of Indian Military Strategy In The Political Sphere. It Discusses Three Main Issues That Have Ensured The Persistence Of Conflict: Incompatible National Identities, PakistanS Congenital Quest For Parity With And Compulsion To Challenge India, And Irreconcilable Positions On The Kashmir Issue. The Book Argues That India Has Invariably Pursued Limited Political Aims That Did Not Threaten PakistanS Survival Or Form Of Government Or Regime In Power Albeit Containing A Counter Offensive Elements. It States That India Employed The Strategy Of Exhaustion During The Indian ArmyS Campaigns In The 194748 Conflict And 1965 War, Which Made Way To Strategy Of Annihilation During The 1971 War (East Pakistan), But After PakistanS Acquisition Of Nuclear Weapons Capability The Strategy Is Back To Exhaustion. The Book Highlights The Importance Of Designing An Overall Military Strategy For Waging Limited War And Pursuing Carefully Calibrated Political And Military Objectives By Creatively Combining The Individual Doctrines Of The Three Services By Establishing A Chief Of Defence Staff System.