India’s Pakistan policy: from 2016 ‘surgical strike’ to 2019 Balakot ‘airstrike’

Kaura, Vinay

doi:10.1080/00358533.2020.1760499

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“…In the period following Modi's election to power in May 2014, there have been shifts in the distance between defence service and civilian authority, most significantly seen in first the engagement of the former Chief of Army Staff General VK Singh into the political establishment as a minister in the cabinet and thereafter in the ascendance of General Bipin Rawat, in an out of turn promotion, to the new position of Chief of Defence Staff [13]. Though, in the recent few years much has been written about the BJP's attempts to appear hawkish, with a strong emphasis on a militarization [15,38] and various journalists have explored the relationship between the defence veterans and politicians [18,37] no attempt has thus far been made to study systematically study the traces of institutional capture of Indian defence services by politicians.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Closed Ranks: The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians on Social Media

Seth¹,

De²,

Arya³

et al. 2022

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Influencers play a crucial role in shaping public narratives through information creation and diffusion in the Global South. While public figures from various walks of life and their impact on public discourse have been studied, defence veterans as influencers of the political discourse have been largely overlooked. Veterans matter in the public spehere as a normatively important political lobby. They are also interesting because, unlike active-duty military officers, they are not restricted from taking public sides on politics, so their posts may provide a window into the views of those still in the service. In this work, we systematically analyze the engagement on Twitter of self-described defence-related accounts and politician accounts that post on defence-related issues. We find that self-described defence-related accounts disproportionately engage with the current ruling party in India. We find that politicians promote their closeness to the defence services and nationalist credentials through engagements with defence-related influencers. We briefly consider the institutional implications of these patterns and connections.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Closed Ranks: The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians on Social Media

Seth¹,

De²,

Arya³

et al. 2022

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“…The Doval Doctrine was notably demonstrated in 2016 when, in retaliation for terrorist strikes on India, the Indian military’s special forces launched raids to destroy terrorist camps and bunkers inside Myanmar and Pakistan Administered Kashmir. More dramatically, in 2019 the Indian Air Force, in retaliation for the Pulwama terrorist attack, carried out surgical air strikes targeting an alleged Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist training camp in Balakot located deep in Pakistan (Kaura, 2020; Routray, 2016). China indicated that it was perturbed by India’s actions, calling for all sides to ‘exercise maximum restraint’ (MFA, 2019a).…”

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Seizing a Window of Opportunity? The Causes and Consequences of the 2020 Sino-Indian Border Stand-off

Westcott

2021

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

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In 2020, the Sino-Indian Line of Actual Control (LAC) witnessed several violent clashes between the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Indian military that resulted in a tense stand-off between the two highly mobilised armies and plunged Sino-Indian bilateral relations to its lowest point since the 1962 border war. Whilst confrontations between Chinese and Indian border forces are relatively commonplace, this recent crisis has proven remarkable due to the ferocity of the clashes and the alarming pace and degree to which established rules of engagement on the LAC have broken down. With both sides seemingly locked in a stalemate, it is prudent to reflect on the causes and significance of the current stand-off. This article argues that the crisis was largely precipitated by China’s calculation that India’s recent border infrastructure building activities and assertive domestic and foreign policy in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir could threaten the PLA’s tactical advantage along the border, and eventually undermine China’s hold over the disputed Aksai Chin region. Acting on these perceptions and sensing that a ‘window of opportunity’ could be rapidly closing, the Chinese government authorised the PLA to initiate actions to consolidate its advantageous position on the LAC. Although both militaries are fully mobilised and in close proximity across the LAC, both sides clearly recognise the decision to go to war would not benefit either side. Hence, both sides will need to engage in some deft diplomacy going forward to resolve the current crisis and to reset bilateral ties.

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“…After an Indian retaliatory strike on a terrorist camp [64], a small CIC quickly became a large CIC that leveraged popular celebrities to increases it's impact [65]. The #IndiaStrikesBack and #BalakotAirstrike networks were prominent and quickly became politicized and led the narrative of the conflict as well as the upcoming government elections [66].…”

Section: A Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

Semantically Modeling Cyber Influence Campaigns (CICs): Ontology Model and Case Studies

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India’s Pakistan policy: from 2016 ‘surgical strike’ to 2019 Balakot ‘airstrike’

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Closed Ranks: The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians on Social Media

Closed Ranks: The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians on Social Media

Seizing a Window of Opportunity? The Causes and Consequences of the 2020 Sino-Indian Border Stand-off

Semantically Modeling Cyber Influence Campaigns (CICs): Ontology Model and Case Studies

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