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INDIAS QUEST TO ESTABLISH SURGICAL STRIKES AS A NEWNORMAL AGAINST NUCLEAR PAKISTAN A SELF DECEPTION OR NEWREALITY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsssr.2021(VI-II).11      10.31703/gsssr.2021(VI-II).11      Published : Jun 2021

India's Quest to Establish Surgical Strikes as a New-Normal against Nuclear Pakistan: A Self- Deception or New-Reality?

Abstract

    This study aims to understand the rationale behind India's recent offensive approach against Pakistan. With the advent of new technologies, the conflict transformed where major wars converted into minor wars and sub-conventional warfare. Nevertheless, India introduced a new set of war fighting strategies to establish itself as a major military power in the South Asian region. The study concluded that in line with its ambitious plans, India conducted a surgical strike deep inside Pakistan's territory in February 2019, and tried to establish a new pattern of strategic engagement where sovereignty breach of nuclear-capable Pakistan will be a 'New-Normal' in India-Pakistan conflictual relations.Interestingly, India taking inspiration from the US and Israel, not only tried to introduce 'New-Normal' in order to alter the norms of sovereignty in South Asia but also went dangerously ahead of them and negated the entire logic of 'nuclear-deterrence' without considering the fact that no one including the US has ever tried to create 'New-Normal' in the situation of actual nuclear deterrence. Lastly and importantly, it is either 'Normal' to accept the logic of nuclear deterrence or 'Abnormal' to reject or negate it. Pakistan's befitting response made it clear that there is no space for the establishment of 'New-Normal' under a nuclear overhang.

    India and Pakistan, Surgical Strike, New-Normal, Conflict, Nuclear Deterrence, Sovereignty

    (1) Muhammad Saeed Uzzaman
    Lecturer, Department of International Relations, National University of Modern Languages, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Azhar Waqar
    Lecturer, Department of International Relations, National University of Modern Languages, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Muhammad Amin
    Phil Scholar, Department of History, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Uzzaman, M. S., Waqar, A., & Amin, M. (2021). India's Quest to Establish Surgical Strikes as a New-Normal against Nuclear Pakistan: A Self- Deception or New-Reality?. Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VI(II), 107-116. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsssr.2021(VI-II).11

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Uzzaman, Muhammad Saeed, Azhar Waqar, and Muhammad Amin. 2021. "India's Quest to Establish Surgical Strikes as a New-Normal against Nuclear Pakistan: A Self- Deception or New-Reality?." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VI (II): 107-116 doi: 10.31703/gsssr.2021(VI-II).11

HARVARD

    HARVARD : UZZAMAN, M. S., WAQAR, A. & AMIN, M. 2021. India's Quest to Establish Surgical Strikes as a New-Normal against Nuclear Pakistan: A Self- Deception or New-Reality?. Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VI, 107-116.

MHRA

    MHRA : Uzzaman, Muhammad Saeed, Azhar Waqar, and Muhammad Amin. 2021. "India's Quest to Establish Surgical Strikes as a New-Normal against Nuclear Pakistan: A Self- Deception or New-Reality?." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VI: 107-116

MLA

    MLA : Uzzaman, Muhammad Saeed, Azhar Waqar, and Muhammad Amin. "India's Quest to Establish Surgical Strikes as a New-Normal against Nuclear Pakistan: A Self- Deception or New-Reality?." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VI.II (2021): 107-116 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Uzzaman, Muhammad Saeed, Waqar, Azhar, and Amin, Muhammad (2021), "India's Quest to Establish Surgical Strikes as a New-Normal against Nuclear Pakistan: A Self- Deception or New-Reality?", Global Strategic & Security Studies Review, VI (II), 107-116

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Uzzaman, Muhammad Saeed, Azhar Waqar, and Muhammad Amin. "India's Quest to Establish Surgical Strikes as a New-Normal against Nuclear Pakistan: A Self- Deception or New-Reality?." Global Strategic & Security Studies Review VI, no. II (2021): 107-116. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsssr.2021(VI-II).11