Saying that the cold start strategy is a work in being and its implementation will have major ramifications for strategic stability in South Asia, Gurmeet Knawal says in an article titled "India's Cold Start Strategy: Worries for Pakistan" in the Indian Military Review, that Pakistan's GHQ cannot possibly commit its strategic reserves against advancing Integrated Battle Groups close to the internal boundary even if some of them achieve major successes as GHQ must maintain the reserves in tact as a countervailing force should India plan to exploit success further by employing one or more of its Strike Corps.
Alternatively, GHQ could gamble on its own trans-border offensive to compel Indian forces to recoil, fully conscious of the fact that this option runs the risk of the piecemeal destruction of the forces inside Indian territory, says the magazine.
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Indian Military Review is a monthly magazine on national defence, homeland security, military technology and modernisation published from New Delhi.
