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In the context of developments on the nuclear weapons front in the neighbourhood, do you think that any change in India’s defence strategy is indicated?

  • UPSC 2009
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Nuclear Question

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Defence strategy is wider than nuclear doctrine. Doctrine states when nuclear weapons would be used; strategy is how a state's whole force, conventional and nuclear, is shaped to deter and fight. Developments in India's neighbourhood, in 2009 and since, point to a clear answer: India's strategy needs to change, but its 2003 doctrine of credible…

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  • Developments on the nuclear front
  • Why a change of strategy is needed
  • The changes indicated, and largely made
  • Limits
  • Conclusion
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