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The Cold Start doctrine has invited criticism from Pakistani media and former generals. [29] They claim that although the doctrine was designed to punish Pakistan in a limited manner without triggering nuclear retaliation, the Indian Army cannot be sure if Pakistan's leadership will actually refrain from such a response. [30]
After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the Indian Army had long been advocating for practicing modern methods of land-based warfare and professionalism. [5] The Chief of Staff of the Indian Army, General Krishnaswamy Sundarji, an officer who earlier had commanded the infantry division in the Bangladesh Liberation War, threw himself into the Indian Army's modernisation. [5]
The Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi, India is an autonomous think tank on strategic studies and land warfare. The mandate of CLAWS covers national security issues, conventional military operations and sub-conventional warfare. [1] CLAWS is registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and is a membership-based ...
The Indian Army was a major force in the First and Second World Wars, particularly in the Western Front and the Middle Eastern theatre during World War I, and the South-East Asian Theatre and the East African and North African campaigns during World War II. The Indian Army is operationally and geographically divided into seven commands, with ...
The United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is responsible for developing Army doctrine. TRADOC was developed early in the 1970s as a response to the American Army's difficulties in the Vietnam War, and is one of the reforms that improved Army professionalism. Currently the capstone Army doctrinal document is Army Doctrine ...
The Indian Armed Forces have been engaged in a number of major military operations, including: the Indo-Pakistani wars of 1947, 1965 and 1971, the Portuguese-Indian War, the Sino-Indian War, the 1967 Cho La incident, the 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish, the Kargil War, and the Siachen conflict among others.
Prior to Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, India had no plans for large scale military action in East Pakistan.Since the Sino-Indian War of 1962, the primary objective of the Indian Army Eastern Command was the defence of the Indian northern and eastern borders, defending the "Shiliguri Corridor", [1] and on combating insurgencies raging in Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and the Naxalites in West ...
From October 2013, the army started posting key officers in Ranchi, Jharkhand. On January 1, 2014, Major General Raymond Joseph Noronha, the first commander of 17 Corps, [9] raised the flag of this corps for the first time in Ranchi. [12] The corps was relocated from Ranchi to Panagarh in 2019. [13] 17 Corps War Memorial at Panagarh.