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Cold Start is a military doctrine developed by the Indian Armed Forces in 2004. It involves joint operations between India's three main services (Army, Navy, and Air Force) and integrated battle groups for offensive operations. A key component is the preparation of India's forces to be able to quickly mobilise and take offensive actions. Keeping in view the perceived inability of the Indian military to leverage its conventional superiority to end Pakistan's "proxy war" in Kashmir, the Indian Army announced a new offensive doctrine in 2004 intended to allow it to mobilize quickly and undertake limited retaliatory attacks on its neighbor, without crossing nuclear threshold. This doctrine marks an significant change in defensive doctrine that India has followed since 1947. Requiring combined arms operating jointly with the Indian Air Force, Cold Start represents a significant advance in India's conventional military capabilities. Military exercise aimed at reducing mobilization time and rapid thrust, combined with advances in the area of network-centric warfare are undertaken to facilitate it, though the doctrine remains in the experimental stage.

Origin of Cold Start Doctrine

India, since 1947 followed “a non-aggressive, non-provocative defense policy based on the philosophy of defensive defense.” Policy of defense was centered around 'holding corps' to halt the enemy advance. Weakness of this policy became evident when on 13 Dec 2001, Indian parliament was attacked by terrorists. India launched Operation Parakram but it took nearly a month to mobilize and by that time sufficient international pressure was built to stop India from launching a retaliatory strike.

Development of Cold Start doctrine
A leaked US diplomatic cable disclosed that it is intended to be taken off the shelf and implemented within a 72-hour period during a crisis. In order to avoid the Indian Army's slow and lumbering military mobilization process and preserve the element of surprise in attack, Cold Start attacks could begin within 72 hours after the attack order has been given, and would be led by armored spearheads launched from prepared forward positions in Punjab and Rajasthan. As described, the plan emphasizes speed and overwhelming firepower: armored formations and accompanying infantry would advance into eastern Pakistan with limited goals in terms of distance and in terms of duration. Although the plan reportedly has a significant air support component, it is unclear to us how much joint versus parallel planning has taken place.
A positive attribute of Cold Start from the Indian perspective is that the short 72-hour time period between decision and attack could shield the Government of India from international pressure to refrain from taking military action against Pakistan. India's prolonged 2002 mobilization period gave the international community notice of Indian troop movements and allowed plenty of time for a series of Western interlocutors to lobby Indian leaders. Even if the plan is never actually implemented—and there is considerable question as to India's intent to ever implement it—news of Cold Start's existence has already paid dividends to Indian policymakers by providing reassurance to the Indian public that the Government of India has the means to punish Pakistan for attacks on Indian soil without triggering potential mutually-assured nuclear destruction. From the Indian perspective, the unimplemented plan has the added virtue of accentuating Pakistani discomfiture and angst, which in theory may have some deterrent value.

Stance on Cold Start doctrine
Pakistan tested Nasr, an nuclear-capable solid fueled missile of 60 km range, to dissuade India from following Cold-start doctrine. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses stated that the development of Nasr indicates that Pakistan views India’s Cold Start doctrine with concern and that the Nasr is meant to deter India’s launch of Cold Start. It added that the net result would be "further nuclear impact(s) on Pakistani territory." IAF chief PV Naik stated that tactical missiles wont affect decision as "Tactical or strategic, it is a nuclear weapon. So, obviously our response would be absolutely violent as per our existing policy."
On May 12 2011, India launched Operation Vijayee Bhava (blessed to win) an massive defense exercise involving 50,000 troops in Bikaner and Suratgarh near the Pakistan border in order to boost the synergy between the defence forces. Its main objective was to cut down mobilization time of military, which took 27 days to mobilize during Operation Prakram. The Indian Army confirmed that exercise was successful and it has reduced its mobilization time drastically to 48 hours. In July 2011 an new solid fueled tactical ballistic missile Prahaar, of 150 km range, was tested. The Prahaar would provide the Indian army’s invading battle groups with lethal fire support.

Link for proof:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Start_(military_doctrine)

So in which all of you must have understood what is going on. I'm planning to start a MU in the name of this.

PS:- The cost for doing so is 40G. But all I have is 10G 😛. So if any one is kind enough, pls donate some money to me 😃