Zulfqar Khan - India’s Evolving Deterrent Force Posturing in South Asia: Temptation for Pre-emptive Strikes, Power Projection, and Escalation Dominance

Zulfqar Khan and Zafar Khan

1st ed. 2021

ISBN 978-981-15-6960-9 e-ISBN 978-981-15-6961-6

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6961-6

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Abbreviations

A2 & AD

Area Access and Area Denial

AESA

Active Electronically Scanned Array Radars

AG

Australia Group

Agni-V

Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile

AH-64D

Apache Longbow Block III Attack Helicopters

AIIB

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

APEC

The AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation

Arihant

INs nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine

ASW

Anti-Submarine Warfare

ATV

Indias Advanced Technology Vessel project

Babur-3

Pakistan Navys submarine launched cruise missile from underwater mobile platform

BCIM

Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor

BFSR

Battle Field Surveillance Radars

BJP

Indias Bharatiya Janata Party

BMD

Ballistic Missile Defence

BRI

Belt and Road Initiative

BRICS

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa

C2

Command and Control

C3I

Command, Control, Communication, and Intelligence

C4

Command, Control, Computers, and Communication

C4ISR

Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance

CAATSA

Countering Americas Adversaries through Sanctions Act

CARs

Central Asian Republics

CCS

Indian Cabinet Committee on Security

CD

Conference on Disarmament

CPEC

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

CRD

Indias Cyber Research and Development

CSBMs

Confidence and Security Building Measures

CSD

Cold Start Doctrine

DND

Draft Nuclear Doctrine

DRDL

Defence Research and Development Laboratory

DRDO

Indias Defence Research and Development Organization

EMALS

Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System

EU

European Union

GCC

Gulf Cooperation Council

GPS

Global Positioning System

Hindutva

BJPs radical philosophy chiefly against Indias Muslims and other religious minorities

IAF

Indian Air Force

IBGs

Integrated Battle Groups of the Indian Army

ICBM

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

ICERT

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team

IGMDP

Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme

IMF

International Monetary Fund

IN

Indian Navy

INS

Indian Navy Ship

INSTC

International North-South Transport Corridor

IOR

Indian Ocean Region

IRBM

Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile

IRS

Intelligence, Reconnaissance, and Surveillance

ISAF

International Security Assistance Force

ISR

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance

ISRO

Indian Space Research Organization

JCPOA

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

K-4

Indias Intermediate-range Nuclear-capable Submarine-launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM)

K-5

Indias Intermediate-range Ballistic Missile

K-6

Indias ICBMs specifically for the Arihant-class submarines

LoC

Line of Control

MAD

Mutual Assured Destruction

MCM

Mine Counter-Measures

MIRV

Pakistan Navys (PN) MIRVAbabeel

MIRVs

Multiple Independently-Targetable Re-entry Vehicles

MSRI

Chinas Maritime Silk Route Initiative

MTCR

Missile Technology Control Regime

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NCA

Pakistans National Command Authority

NCBMs

Nuclear Confidence Building Measures

NCBMs

Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological-weapons Measures

NCCC

Indias National Cyber Coordination Centre

NCW/NEO

Net-Centric Warfare/Network Enabled Operations

NPR

US Nuclear Posture Review

NPT

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

NSAs

Non-state actors

NSG

Nuclear Suppliers Group

NWS

Nuclear Weapon States

OBOR

One Belt, One Road

OPEC

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

P5+1

Permanent Five plus One

PAF

Pakistan Air Force

PLAN

Peoples Liberation Army Navy

PN

Pakistan Navy

PRC

Peoples Republic of China

PSYOPS

Psychological Operations

R&D

Research and Development

RSC

Regional Security Complex

S-400

Russias Triumf air defence missile system

SAR

Synthetic Aperture Radar

SCO

Shanghai Cooperation Organization

SDI

Strategic Defence Initiatives

SFC

Indias Strategic Forces Command

SIDS

Strategic Information Dissemination Systems

SLBM

Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile

SLOCS

Sea Lines of Communication

SPD

Pakistans Strategic Plans Division

SREB

Silk Road Economic Belt

SRR

Strategic Restraint Regime

SSBN

Nuclear-powered Ballistic Missile Submarine

STA-1

US Strategic Trade Authorization-1 for India

SU-30MKI

Fighter Aircraft

SUPARCO

Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission

TTA

Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan

TTP

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

UAVs

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

UNSC

United Nations Security Council

US

United States

USPACOM

US Pacific Command

WA

Wassenaar Agreement

Contents

List of Tables

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