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Limited War in South Asia - From Decolonization to Recent Times (Paperback)
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Limited War in South Asia - From Decolonization to Recent Times (Paperback)
Series: Military Strategy and Operational Art
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This book examines the origins, courses and consequences of
conventional wars in post-colonial South Asia. Although South Asia
has experienced large-scale conventional warfare on several
occasions since the end of World War II, there is an almost total
neglect of analysis of conventional warfare in the Indian
subcontinent. Focusing on China, India and Pakistan, this volume,
therefore, takes a unique approach. Regional rivalries between
India and Pakistan are linked with global rivalries between the US
and USSR (later Russia) and then China, and war is defined in a
broader perspective. The book analyses the conduct of land, sea and
air warfare, as well as the causes and consequences of conflicts.
Tactical conduct of warfare (the nature of mobile armoured strikes
and static linear infantry combat supported by heavy artillery) and
generalship are studied along with military strategy, doctrine and
grand strategy (national security policy), which is an amalgam of
diplomacy, military strategy and economic policy. While following a
realpolitik approach, this book blends the development of military
strategies and doctrines with the religious and cultural ethos of
the subcontinent's inhabitants. Drawing on sources not easily
accessible to Western scholars, the overall argument put forward by
this work is that conventional warfare has been limited in South
Asia from the very beginning for reasons both cultural and
realpolitik. This book will be of much interest to students of
South Asian politics, security studies, war and conflict studies,
military studies and International Relations in general.
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