India-Pakistan Overt Nuclearization: Implications on Warfare in South Asia

Abstract

Since 1947, South Asian region remains a hub of wars because of the two belligerent neighbors India and Pakistan. It is one of the most volatile regions in the world. Before the adoption of nuclear weapons there were several all-out wars fought between the two belligerents that includes the 1948 Kashmir war, the 1965 and the 1971 war. But after 1998 when both the countries became nuclearized a shift in the mode of warfare started occurring. Ground realities reveal that after the nuclear weapons tests the dynamics of wm/are in this region have changed. Nuclear weapons maintain the stability on the strategic level but on the other hand prom,ote the instability on conventional level which creates "Stability-Instability Paradox" in the South Asian region. This research study will discuss that in what manner the shift occurs and how positively and negatively the nuclear weapons ciffect the Volarfare in the region. This research will critically examine the shfft of wm/are from all-out wars to sub-conventional and lim,ited wars and will .filrther discuss that in what manner the promotion of sub-conventional or below the nuclear threshold wars occur,