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Record W4417135160 · doi:10.1080/01495933.2025.2580956

Two decades of India’s Cold Start Doctrine

2025· article· en· W4417135160 on OpenAlexaff
Nasir Mehmood, Usman Haider

Bibliographic record

VenueComparative Strategy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicIndian Economic and Social Development
Canadian institutionsDepartment of National Defence
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDoctrineCold warBattleGovernment (linguistics)OperationalizationMilitary doctrineMeaning (existential)

Abstract

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The overt nuclearization of South Asia has questioned the space for the use of force between India and Pakistan. However, India has introduced the contentious and yet ambiguous Cold Start Doctrine (CSD), designed to launch a limited war against Pakistan under the nuclear umbrella. This article examines the doctrine’s meaning and its core operational tool of Integrated Battle Groups (IBGs). It analyses the critical initiatives taken by the Indian government to overcome the main impediments that have hindered the operationalization of the CSD over the past two decades. These include: reorganizing the Indian Army Corps, improving rail and road infrastructure in border regions, enhancing the nighttime combat capabilities of mechanized units, increasing shoot-and-scoot strike capabilities, and strengthening real-time surveillance and communication systems. It finally argues that the CSD is likely to remain a fixture of the Indian military planning; however, its execution against Pakistan carries significant operational and strategic risks for regional peace and stability.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.061

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.013
Scholarly communication0.0060.002
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.073
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.230 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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