India's evolving deterrent force posturing in south asia : temptation for pre-emptive strikes, power projection, and escalation dominance / / Zulfqar Khan, Zafar Khan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483041303321
• Autore: Khan Zulfqar
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 981-15-6961-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2021.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 381 p.)
• Disciplina: 733
• Soggetti: Nuclear weapons - India; Deterrence (Strategy); India Foreign relations South Asia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Geostrategic Environment of South Asian Region -- Chapter 3 India’s Maritime Strategic Outreach in the Indian Ocean Region: Power Projection and Escalation Dominance -- Chapter 4 India’s Doctrinal Restructuring: Posturing for Punitive Counterforce Strategy -- Chapter 5 India’s Evolving Strategy for Ballistic Missile Development Programme for Southern Asia: Motivations and Challenges -- Chapter 6 Conceptualizing India-Pakistan’s Competing War-Fighting Strategies and Possibility of Conflict in South Asia -- Chapter 7 India’s Evolving Deterrent Posturing: Post Pulwama Military Crisis 2019 -- Chapter 8 Revisiting the Proposed Strategic Restraint Regime for South Asian Region: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustaining Peace and Stability -- Chapter 9 Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book discusses India’s evolving deterrent force posturing in South Asia under the conceptual essentials of nuclear revolution when it comes to various combinations of conventional and nuclear forces development and the strategic implications it intentionally or unintentionally poses for South Asian region. Innovatively, the book talks about how the contemporary restructuring of India’s evolving deterrent force posture affects India’s nuclear strategy in general and ; how this in turn could affect the policies of its adversaries: China and Pakistan in particular. The book discusses the motivations of the evolving aspects of Indian deterrent force posturing that broadly covers India’s restructuring of its Nuclear Draft Doctrine (DND), the ballistic missile development program including that of its Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, and the possibility of conflicts between China-India and India-Pakistan given their transforming strategic force postures and their recurring adversarial behavior against each other in the Southern Asian region.