Arun Sahgal - Volume IX, Issue 11

DPG is deeply committed to the growth of India’s national power and purpose, the security and prosperity of the people of India and India’s contributions to the global public good. [...] The central argument behind revamping and modernising the strategic posture is that the US must be capable of fighting and winning two wars against peer competitor - namely, China and Russia - acting individually or in concert.3 Russian Nuclear Forces Driven by major strategic challenges, like the US, Russia too is in the process of completing its decade long efforts to replace all existing strate. [...] The poor performance and loss of a significant portion of Russian conventional forces in the war against Ukraine, and the depletion of its weapon stockpiles, Western analysts argue, could further deepen Russia’s reliance on nuclear weapons as part of dissuasive deterrence. [...] The purpose of the MIRV programme on the other hand is to ensure effective penetration of US missile defences, as also to possibly maximise the number of warheads of the Chinese missile force. [...] Coming to nuclear equations, the primary concern of Indian policy planners is the credibility of strategic deterrence against the challenge of adversarial nuclear armed neighbours.