What India must do in a Two-Front War? Thread based on my story. https://indiafacts.org/double-trouble-indias-options-in-a-collusive-two-front-war/
1. The US Air Force wargamed a joint China-Pakistan attack and concluded: China’s constant effort is to “shift the military balance so as to assure Indian inability to crush Pakistan”.

2. It is time to expose the hollowness of this Chinese strategy. India’s objective, in case of a collusive attack, should be to take away this prized Chinese pawn by using the opportunity to finish the Pakistan problem once and for all.

3. If war starts, the Indian Army’s Proactive Military Strategy aims multiple blitzkrieg strikes across the Pakistan border to capture “bite-size” chunks of territory. This will put Indian troops in Lahore and Sialkot – the Pakistan Army’s Punjabi heartland – within 72-96 hours.

4. The attack will be led by 8-10 division-sized integrated battle groups (IBGs) plus a rapid reaction “saber corps”.

5. All of the IBGs, equipped with artillery, armoured personnel carriers, main battle tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles, would be capable of launching limited strikes along different axes of advance into enemy territory supported by air power.

6. Every IBG will consist of three to six infantry and armoured battalions and two to three artillery regiments, next to air defence, logistical, signal and headquarter units – overall 5,000 to 8,000 troops.

7. What if Pakistan uses tactical nuclear weapons against the IBGs the moment they cross the border or when the Pakistan Army's defences collapse? If Pakistan uses its battlefield nukes on the advancing Indian armoured formations, it is faced with two existential problems.

8. One, Pak will become the first country in history to use nuclear weapons on its own territory, making these regions a wasteland for decades. Some Indian IBGs will certainly be lost, but 150 million Pakistanis will be drinking radioactive water for the remainder of their lives.

9. Unlike Japan, which rebuilt Hiroshima and Nagasaki very quickly, dirt poor and nuclear war-ravaged Pakistan may not be able to rise for centuries.

10. Two, India’s doctrine of “Assured Retaliation” ensures that any form of introduction of nuclear weapons into a conflict would result in massive punitive retaliation. A dozen well-placed nukes and Pakistan would cease to exist.

11. It won't be the first time in history that a country was erased off the map of the world. Israelites wiped out Canaan under orders of Biblical god. Romans erased Carthage. Mongols destroyed Tokharian empire.

12. India must only target Pakistani Punjab and avoid targeting Balochistan, the Pakhtun areas and Sindh (except Karachi which is now a non-Sindhi city). This will send a signal to Pakistan’s minorities that India’s conflict is solely with the despotic and barbaric Pakistan Army.

13. Two, against China the Indian strategy should be offensive defence – absorb the initial wave of attacks, decimate the adversary’s forces massed in Tibet, its airfields, highways and support infrastructure, without escalatory attacks on the Chinese heartland.

14. Quick reaction mountain divisions should be able to form an impenetrable wall that acts as a meat grinder for the Chinese army.

15. The army’s Proactive Military Strategy works alongside coordinated and simultaneous attacks by the air force and navy. Karachi port will go up in smoke on Day 1 of the war. All command centres of the Pakistan military should be attacked with cruise missiles.

16. The plan should be to overwhelm the enemy’s defences and unhinge his decision-making ability. Pakistan cannot match India's total war strategy. It will face a bigger humiliation than in 1971 when it lost 50% of its population, and India captured 93,000 Pakistan Army soldiers.

17. What if China issues a nuclear threat? Since India’s nuclear arsenal has around 120 warheads (plus additional fissile material to produce 2,600 more nukes) it should be enough of a deterrent to the Chinese not to risk Beijing and Shanghai for Islamabad and Karachi.

18. No matter what the outcome of the war, Pakistan should never ever have the capacity to become a threat to India. In fact, it should be defanged and neutralised. Minus its vassal, China’s ability to target India would also diminish considerably.

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