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The Indian military is continuously transforming its doctrines to fill operational
gaps, create synergy and integration in its tri-services, and execute realistic
conventional limited war-fighting strategies. Its Land Warfare Doctrine-2018
(LWD-18) is a renewed form of previous limited war doctrines. Pakistan’s
nuclear deterrence and effective conventional counter measures have confined
the India’s military from any large-scale offensives. This is the reason why it is
constantly looking for a gap between the nuclear and conventional capabilities
of Pakistan to launch limited but intense quick and swift operations under the
nuclear umbrella without invoking Pakistan’s nuclear threshold. Through indepth primary interviews supported by secondary sources, this study finds that
the new LWD-18 has put greater emphasis on the restructuring of the Indian
Strike formations into small Integrated Battle Groups (IBGs) equipped with
offensive elements for shallow manoeuvres in protracted, rapid and nimble
warfare scenarios. The LWD-18 also focuses on force modernisation; synergy
& integration; flexibility; agility and greater manoeuvrability to fill operational
gaps; shorten mobilisation time; and execute limited war concepts against
Pakistan. It also stresses the significance of hybrid warfare threats in modern
times, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance capabilities for real-time
information about the adversary and enhanced battlefield transparency for
precision strikes. All these capabilities are required for any quick and swift
specialised operations in the South Asian strategic milieu. Such doctrinal
transformation in the Indian Army is taking place rapidly and is going to put
extreme strain on Pakistan’s military to manage growing conventional
asymmetries, counter hybrid nature of threats, and employ credible counter
measures along with pragmatic conventional strategies backed by nuclear
weapons, to ensure territorial integrity, manage internal security and deter
aggression at all levels to maintain deterrence stability in South Asia.
Dr Masood Ur Rehman Khattak. (2020) The Indian Army’s Land Warfare Doctrine 2018: A Critical Analysis, IPRI Journal, Volume-20, Issue-2.
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