Volume 19, No. 2, 2022
Indian Army’s Evolving Punitive Tactical Strike Doctrine
Dr. Ashfaq Ahmed , Muhammad Owais , Dr. Kishwar Munir , Saima Kausar
Abstract
Indian Small Arms System (INSAS) rifle failed quality test. “Soviet era MiG-21s fall from the sky they are called as flying coffins.” Sukhoi SU-30MKI ejected one of the Indian pilots without warning. India remained world largest arms importer from 2013 to 2017. Rao Inderjit Singh, the then India Defense Minister for State in July, 2018 informed Indian parliament that India signed 182 contracts for arms procurement. It allocated U.S. $ 66.9 billion as defense budget. India is procuring S-400 Ballistic Missile Defense System, 4.5 generation multirole combat jets, upgrading tanks, nuclear submarines Seahawks, Chinooks and Apache helicopters. Indian forces are being trained to fight in chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological environment to ensure full spectrum escalation dominance. Dangerous provocative Punitive Retaliatory Comprehensive Tactical Strike in Balakot vis-ŕ-vis Pakistan to introspect weakness and enemy’s countermeasures. New military technologies are therefore procured to overcome existing gaps and launch swift surprising tactical strikes and reduce or ideally deny available countervailing options to the enemy. Commingling of nuclear and conventional forces increases chances of accidental and deliberate nuclear war in the region.
Pages: 6932-6950
Keywords: India, Pakistan, Apache, S-400 Ballistic Missile Defense, Rafale