Indian Army reworks war doctrine for Pakistan, China

The Army is now revising its five-year-old doctrine to effectively meet the challenges of a possible `two-front war' with China and Pakistan, deal with asymmetric and fourth-generation warfare, enhance strategic reach and joint operations with IAF and Navy.

Work on the new war doctrine to reflect the reconfiguration of threat perceptions and security challenges is already underway under the aegis of Shimla-based Army Training Command, headed by Lt-General A S Lamba, said sources. It comes in the backdrop of the 1.13-million strong Army having practised through several wargames over the last five years its `pro-active' war strategy to mobilise fast and strike hard to pulverise the enemy.

This `cold start strategy', under a NBC (nuclear-chemical-biological) overhang, emerged from the `harsh lessons' learnt during Operation Parakram, where it took Army's strike formations almost a month to mobilise at the `border launch pads' after the December 2001 terrorist attack on Parliament. This gave ample opportunity to Pakistan to shore up its defences as well as adequate time to the international community, primarily the US, to intervene. The lack of clear directives from the then NDA government only made matters worse.

"A major leap in our approach to conduct of operations (since then) has been the successful firming-up of the cold start strategy (to be able to go to war promptly)," said Army chief General Deepak Kapoor, at a closed-door seminar recently.

The plan now is to launch self-contained and highly-mobile `battle groups', with Russian-origin T-90S tanks and upgraded T-72 M1 tanks at their core, adequately backed by air cover and artillery fire assaults, for rapid thrusts into enemy territory within 96 hours.

Gen Kapoor identified five thrust areas that will drive the new doctrine.

One, even as the armed forces prepare for their primary task of conventional wars, they must also factor in the eventuality of `a two-front war' breaking out. In tune with this, after acquiring a greater offensive punch along the entire western front with Pakistan by the creation of a new South-Western Army Command in 2005, India is now taking steps albeit belatedly to strategically counter the stark military asymmetry with China in the eastern sector. There is now "a proportionate focus towards the western and north-eastern fronts", said Gen Kapoor.

Two, the Army needs to `optimise' its capability to effectively counter `both military and non-military facets' of asymmetric and sub-conventional threats like WMD terrorism, cyber warfare, electronic warfare and information warfare.

Three, the armed forces have to substantially enhance their strategic reach and out-of-area capabilities to protect India's geo-political interests stretching from Persian Gulf to Malacca Strait. "This would enable us to protect our island territories; as also give assistance to the littoral states in the Indian Ocean Region," said Gen Kapoor.

Four, interdependence and operational synergy among Army, Navy and IAF must become the essence of strategic planning and execution in future wars.

And five, India must strive to achieve a technological edge over its adversaries. "Harnessing and exploitation of technology also includes integration of network centricity, decision-support systems, information warfare and electronic warfare into our operational plans," he added.

Apart from analysing the evolving military strategy and doctrines of China and Pakistan, the Army is also studying the lessons learnt from the US-launched Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2001 and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 and their relevance to India.

Truth About Pakistan Army

Pakistani Soldiers surrendering their arms before Indian Army:
Indo-Pak War 1971







Pakistan claims that its armed force is one of the strongest and most modern armed force in the world , both well equipped and well trained.Here are some "truths" about this army:

1. Pakistan army has always intervened in Pakistani Politics and has illegtimately toppled several elected Goverments.

2. This organisation is the biggest stake holder and stock holder in every big business of Pakistan. They have biggest share in Pakistan's stock exchange, operate commercial bank, airline, steel, cement, telecom, petroleum and energy, education, sports, health care and even grocery shops chains and bakeries. In short their monopoly is present in every sector of Pakistan's economy.Pakistan Army holds most of the civil departments, government lands , and other govenment organisations.Senior Pakistan Army Officers are engaged in selling n purchasing of government properties.They own enormous govenment assetts.
It would be better to call this army a Pvt.Ltd Company.

3. Till date this STRONG army has faught 4 wars with India (1948-1965-1971-1999).In each of these wars this army lost almost half of its capabilities.

Source Wikipedia:

"TIME magazine reported that India held 690 sqkm of Pakistan territory while Pakistan held 250 sqkm of Indian territory in Kashmir and Rajasthan. Additionally, Pakistan had lost almost half its armour temporarily.[55] The same article stated that - Severely mauled by the larger Indian armed forces, Pakistan could continue the fight only by teaming up with Red China and turning its back on the U.N." (1965)

"The invading Indian forces outfought their Pakistani counterparts and halted their attack on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. By the time United Nations intervened on September 22, Pakistan had suffered a clear defeat." (1965)

"Losses were relatively heavy--on the Pakistani side, twenty aircraft, 200 tanks, and 3,800 troops. Pakistan's army had been able to withstand Indian pressure, but a continuation of the fighting would only have led to further losses and ultimate defeat for Pakistan." (1965)

"The Indian campaign employed "blitzkrieg" techniques, exploiting weakness in the enemy's positions and bypassing opposition, and resulted in a swift victory.[26] Faced with insurmountable losses, the Pakistani military capitulated in less than a fortnight. On 16 December, the Pakistani forces stationed in East Pakistan surrendered." (1971)

"The war stripped Pakistan of more than half of its population and with nearly one-third of its army in captivity, clearly established India's military dominance of the subcontinent.[13]" (1971)

"The loss of East Pakistan had shattered the prestige of the Pakistani military.[6] Pakistan lost half its navy, a quarter of its airforce and a third of its army.[34] The popularized myth that one Muslim had the fighting prowess of five Hindus no longer held any water.[6] " (1971)

"The Indian Air Force flew 4,000 sorties while its counterpart, the PAF offered little in retaliation, partly because of the paucity of non-Bengali technical personnel.[3] This lack of retaliation has also been attributed to the deliberate decision of the PAF High Command to cut its losses as it had already incurred huge losses in the conflict.[25] In the east, the small air contingent of Pakistan Air Force No. 14 Sqn was destroyed, putting the Dhaka airfield out of commission and resulting in Indian air superiority in the east.[3]." (1971)

4. During Indo pak War 1971 about 90,000 pakistani soldiers surrendered in front of Indian Army.This is the largest number of POW's in a two side conflict till date.

5। During Kargil War 1999 Pakistan even refused to take back the bodies of its armymen who intruded into the Indian territory disguised as local Jihadis and were killed by Indian Army.

Source Wikipedia:
"The morale of Pakistani forces after the withdrawal declined as many units of the Northern Light Infantry suffered heavy casualties.[17][102] The government refused to acknowledge the dead bodies of many officers,[103][104] an issue that provoked outrage and protests in the Northern Areas.[105][106] Pakistan initially did not acknowledge many of its casualties, but Sharif later said that over 4,000 Pakistani troops were killed in the operation and that Pakistan had lost the conflict.[6] " (1999)

6. Pakistan Army is accused of committing one of the most brutal war time genocide in the world military history.This disciplined army committed lakhs of brutal murders , rapes and other war crimes in erstwhile East Pakistan during Indo-Pak War 1971.

Surrender by Pakistan in Indo-Pak War 1971

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General Niazi ,Pakistan Army signing surrender document in the presence of Lt।General Jagjit Singh Arora.





The Instrument of Surrender was signed at Ramna Race course in Dhaka at 16:31 IST on December 16, 1971, by Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Arora, General Officer Commanding in Chief of Eastern Command of the Indian Army and Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, Commander of Pakistani forces in Bangladesh, as the formal act of surrender of all Pakistani forces in erstwhile East Pakistan। Also present during the ceremony were Lieutenant General JFR Jacob, Chief of Staff of the Eastern Command and architect of the plan for the capture of Bangladesh, and, the commanders of Indian Naval and Air Forces in the Eastern Theatre।

The signing of the document ended the war, and led to the formation of Bangladesh. The name of the new country, Bangla Desh (later reduced to a single word), was used in the instrument of surrender, which declared: "The Pakistan Eastern Command agree to surrender all Pakistan armed forces in Bangla desh to Lieutenant-General Jagjit Singh Aurora, General Officer Commanding in Chief of the Indian and BANGLA DESH forces in the Eastern Theatre."

Aurora accepted the Surrender without a word, while the crowd on the race course started shouting anti-Niazi and anti-Pakistan slogans and abuses।Niazi along with a sizeable number of Pakistani soldiers were taken prisoner (upwards of 90,000)


This was the largest number of POW's since World War II and included some government officials।

उड़ चल परिंदे

नया need बसाना है
अब जीवन सजाना है
नई उमंग नए साहस का तू
थाम ले आँचल
उड़ चल परिंदे उड़ चल ....

ना तो यह ठिकाने अपने
ना रिश्ते ना नाते है
तेरे सपने तेरी मंजिल
तेरे साथ हर पल
उड़ चल परिंदे उड़ चल....

कुछ खोया यहाँ कुछ पाया है
कुछ समझा कुछ जाना
नए लक्ष्य पर ये जीवन अनुभव
साथ लेता चल
उड़ चल परिंदे उड़ चल....

अंतहीन संघर्ष ही
है जीवन का नाम
रुकना नही थमना नही
जैसे दरिया का जल
उड़ चल परिंदे उड़ चल....

अब ठहरने की बात नही
अब तो मंजिल पास है
तेरे सब संघर्षो का बस
मिलने वाला फल
उड़ चल परिंदे उड़ चल....

फ़िर क्यो इतनी दूरी है....

जितनी पीड़ा तुम सहती हो
उतना ही म सहता हूँ
फर्क है की तुम रोती हो
और म चुप रहता हूँ
दोनों को जब प्रेम है इतना
फ़िर क्यो यह मजबूरी है
फ़िर क्यो इतनी दूरी है
फ़िर क्यो इतनी दूरी है

नींद नही होती आँखों में
रातो में हम जगते है
चाहे कितनी बातें करले
हम तनिक नही थकते है
तुम लिखती हो म लिखता हूँ
रचना किंतु अधूरी है
फ़िर क्यो इतनी दूरी है
फ़िर क्यो इतनी दूरी है

नया नही है अपना रिश्ता
यह सम्बन्ध पुराना है
नित नए सुर जुड़ते जाते
कैसा मधुर तराना है
साँस चले जीवन रहे
इसलिए मिलना जरूरी है
फ़िर क्यो इतनी दूरी है
फ़िर क्यो इतनी दूरी है

कितने अंधेरे थे जीवन में
तुम ज्योति बन आई हो
अब तक तरसा जिन्हें पाने को
वो खुशिया साडी लायी हो
सतरंगी है सपने तुमसे
हर लम्हा सिन्दूरी है
फ़िर क्यो इतनी दूरी है
फ़िर क्यो इतनी दूरी है

माँ तुझे नमन

जब भी भंवर में कश्ती डोली
तुमने ही तो दिया सहारा
तुम जैसे मांझी को पाकर
नौका पा सकी किनारा

इस जीवन पथ का राही मुझको
तुमने ही बनाया है
उंगली पकड़ कर तुमने ही तो
चलना मुझे सिखाया है

ख़ुद कष्टों को सहकर तुमने
मुझे सुखो में पाला है
ख़ुद भूखे रहकर तुमने
दिया मुझे निवाला है

मुझे ज्ञात है वो दुःख के दिन
तुमने कैसे बिताये थे
जब अपनों ने ही दर्द दिए
इश्वर भी तब पराये थे

हो सके तो माँ मुझपर
इतना भरोसा करना तुम
दूर करूँगा कष्टों को म
पास न होगा कोई गम

तुमसे ही पाया जीवन है ये
तुम पर ही न्योछावर करता हूँ
जीतूँगा सब सपनो को तेरे
pran आज ये लेता हूँ

तुम्हारे दुःख स्मरण है मुझे
ये ही रास्ता दिखाएंगे
दीपक बन कर राहो में
मंजिल तक ले जाएँगे

होगा दूर अँधेरा मन का
सुख का सूरज आएगा
खुशियों की किरणों को वह
आँगन में बिखराएगा

इन लक्ष्यों को पाया न जब तक
यह जीवन बेकार है
ना कोई खुशी है मन को
हर हँसी में चीत्कार है

तुम्हारे चरणों की राज को म
माथे से लगाता हूँ
तुम्हे स्मरण करके
संकल्प यही दोहराता हूँ

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