India's Convenational-Threat Perception Centres On Pakistan, China

 

 

India's conventional-threat perception in the Asia-Pacific will continue to centre on Pakistan and China, says a report released ahead of an international defence dialogue to be held over the weekend in Singapore.

Any potential future "major conventional war" would remain local in nature, with India's surgical strikes having only taken place so far against Pakistan, noted the report published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). India is preparing its Army for large-scale conventional-combat operations, as a result of long-standing territorial disputes with both of its nuclear-armed neighbours, said the IISS  Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment (APRSA) report dated May 28. India's border conflicts with China have been more traditional in nature and are unlikely to escalate to the same level of the Indo-Pakistan conflicts. "As such, India will continue to have militarised borders with China and Pakistan," added the 150-page report by the London-based IISS.