Dragon’s Mind: The Chinese

Strategic View continues......

A HYPOTHETICAL BATTLE SCENARIO

Assume a conflict scenario involving the Chinese claim to Arunachal

Pradesh coming to a total breakdown in relations.

Day One: There could be a beginning with a cyber-attack on

India’s financial systems leading to a banking-systems breakdown

followed by a stock-market crash, which would not initially be assumed

to be connected with the diplomatic-territorial standoff. A series of

bomb scares at vital economic installations on the Gujarat coast,

whether government-owned or private, with seemingly unrelated cyber￾warfare-generated clues, would divert both the government and the

public mind.

Day Two: The first physical attack could be an attack on all semi￾conductor (silicon-chip based) controlled communications devices

across the entire national network, including airports and all

telecommunications systems. A ballistic missile strike with conventional

warheads on both Guntakal and Kakinada railway junctions would

divert attention to peninsular India. All railway movements and

railways communications networks in south India and on the eastern coast would come to a halt. Laser attacks would be mounted on Indian

communications and battlefield surveillance satellites, blinding some

and destroying others completely.

More missile strikes with conventional warheads, on the Farakka

barrage and the road connection across the Ganges River, would create

panic and confusion in the eastern Gangetic plains area of India. A cruise missile strike on New Jalpaiguri railway junction, by a DH-10

cruise missile (LACM), which has a range of 1500 km, from a submarine in the northern half of the Bay of Bengal, would begin panic

and confusion in the Siliguri Corridor. A missile strike with a conventional warhead from Tibet on Bagdogra airport a little later

would ensure the isolation of both Sikkim and Assam from the rest of

India. Cyber-war attacks against communications hardware would

ensure that all early-warning radar sites in eastern India would go dead,

as would all military communications networks, both army and air force. Air strikes on all military airfields in eastern India would commence in the evening.

To be continued....