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The ambiguous circumstance of its military doctrine may be no bad topic for India, if the end result is what Thomas Schelling described as the threat that leaves something to casualty,76 but, as Delhi has disc everyplaceed, issuing even embryonic threats roll in the hay be counterproductive. Cohen and Dasgupta watch out that frore Start has been a boon for the Pakistan establishment, in that its diplomats and generals can contend on the international stage that India is in fact an war-ridden country. 77 And far from leaving something to chance, the prevailing arrangements are widely accepted as aspirational at best.Third, inter-service rivalry has crippled a event of modernisation efforts in the past, and doctrine appears to be no exception. Indias wars pick up historically been disjointed affairs. In the humiliating defeat by chinaware in 1962, airpower was glaringly absent. 78 Three years later, the Indian oxygenate Force (IAF) preferred strategic bombing to close air reinforcing stimulus. 79 Chari et al. , Four Crises and a Peace Process, 175. Ibid. , 177. 74 Khan et al. , Pakistans motivations and calculations for the Kargil con? ict. 75 Mukherjee, The Absent Dialogue. 76 Thomas C.Schelling, The dodge of Con? ict (Cambridge, MA Harvard UP 1960), 187. 77 Cohen and Dasgupta, Arming without Aiming, 66. 78 R. Sukumaran, The 1962 India-China fight and Kargil 1999 Restrictions on the Use of Air Power, Strategic Analysis 27/3 (2003), 341. 79 The limited amount of close air support furnished by the IAF was disastrous. It was characterised by dismal conduct, including the in? iction of casualties on Indian 73 72 Downloaded by Harvard College at 1328 22 July 2013 526 Shashank Joshi Downloaded by Harvard College at 1328 22 July 2013And although it compete all-important(a) roles in subsequent con? icts, it resists being co-opted for the Armys purposes. The Indian Navy (IN) has ssimilarly carved out an independent role for itself in recent years, followi ng minimal involvement in Indias wars. 80 Its doctrine presents war? ghting as one of four equally important roles, with the other three diplomatic, constabulary, and soft power functions being broader in geographic scope and less dependent on combat power. 81 The IAF and IN have abiding fears of being marginalised and subordinated by an overweening Army.This has ensured that Indian Chief of Defence staff (CDS) or Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) positions have never materialised, despite the coordination bene? ts of such an of? ce, whose existence was mooted as former(a) as 1949 and the case for which has been made recurrently since. 82 India is not unmatched in this regard. Industrialised democracies often face inter-service wrangling. 83 In Britain, evaluate austerity has prompted each service chief to vigorously defend the relevancy of his force structure, with an emphasis on costly platforms. 4 Such debates over force structure, such as the analogous questions over the utility of the F-22 in an age of irregular warfare, everywhere affect posture. 85 However, the Indian setting is characterised by particularly rigid service identities and a de? ciency of overarching political orchestration. Cold Start threatens the organizational essence of the IAF. 86 This is unsurprising as a doctrine for conventional limited war, it characterises airpower as ancillary to the movement of plant forces. Insofar as Cold Start is a strategic tract rather than one operational manoeuvre personnel.