LEADER 03421oam 2200493 450 001 9910483041303321 005 20210604121437.0 010 $a981-15-6961-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-15-6961-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000011665282 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6426735 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-15-6961-6 035 $a(PPN)259465364 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011665282 100 $a20210604d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIndia's evolving deterrent force posturing in south asia $etemptation for pre-emptive strikes, power projection, and escalation dominance /$fZulfqar Khan, Zafar Khan 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (XI, 381 p.) 311 $a981-15-6960-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aNuclear weapons$zIndia 606 $aDeterrence (Strategy) 607 $aIndia$xForeign relations$zSouth Asia 615 0$aNuclear weapons 615 0$aDeterrence (Strategy) 676 $a733 700 $aKhan$b Zulfqar$01215925 702 $aKhan$b Zafar 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483041303321 996 $aIndia's evolving deterrent force posturing in south asia$92809754 997 $aUNINA