For Indian national security and foreign policy planners, China and Pakistan are two countries of critical concern. While China uses its army to engage India on the border dispute, Pakistan on the other hand, prefers to employ clandestine, violent non-state actors like jihadis against India to ensure plausible deniability of state involvement. Therefore, these adversaries have different styles of State behaviour to use force against India which are linked to their respective strategic cultures. Strategic culture is a lens to enable us to understand how a nation-state chooses to employ force in inter-state relations. It attempts to explain how and...