By David Slungaard
While commenting on series of a highly touted military exercises last Tuesday, Indian Army Chief, General V K Singh, provided some of the most concrete reporting on India’s widely controversial, and ‘undeclared’ military doctrine known as Cold Start. Careful to avoid referring to the doctrine by name- “there is nothing like Cold Start-,” General Singh was reported to say- “we have a ‘proactive strategy’ which takes steps in a proactive manner so that we can achieve what our doctrines and strategies (demand).” He continued with, “[i]n the next two years, even more changes will take place. We have done studies and made a plan to speed up deployments. We will have some new… changes in the method of mobilisation. What we did in 15 days, we now do in seven; and will do in three days in the future.”
