Beating Hybrid Warfare with Ideas
Ahmed Quraishi
Pakistan has faced two powerful wars where traditional and nontraditional methods of warfare were effectively deployed against the Pakistani state: in 1971 and post 2001. Pakistan is a...
Hybrid or No Hybrid, War is War
Rizwan Zeb
Caesar had his legions, Napoleon had his armies. Words are the new weapons, satellites the new artillery.
Who has not heard of “hybrid war”? Perhaps, someone who has never...
Fifth Generation Warfare and the Challenges for Pakistan
Shafaat Ullah Shah
“For the present, we are at war and do not grasp the dimensions of the conflict.”
Ralph Peters
The term Fifth-Generation War has become a favorite acronym in Pakistan...
U.S. Comes to Pakistan to Break the Afghan-Taliban Stalemate
Rahimullah Yousafzai
President Donald Trump never ceases to cause a surprise by changing track and taking a new position on important issues. He did this recently by writing a letter...
India’s Arihant SSBN: Should China be Worried?
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
The Sino-Indo rivalry is old and multidimensional. The two nuclear-armed titans have been instrumental in charting out the security architecture of the region. Nuclear deterrence features...
Arihant and Deterrence Stability: Why Pakistan Needs to Strengthen its Sea-based Deterrent
Yasir Hussain
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a series of tweets, termed India’s first indigenous ballistic-missile armed nuclear submarine (SSBN), Arihant’s maiden deterrence patrol as “historic”. PM Modi further added,...
Defeating TTP: An Appraisal of Pakistan’s Counterinsurgency Operations
Shahzad Akhtar
The insurgency by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan was crushingly defeated by the Pakistani military. The TTP’s stronghold in Bajaur...
Interview with Puruesh Chaudhary : Pakistan State of Future Index “Anticipating 2027”
Puruesh Chaudhary is a futures researcher and strategic narrative professional. She has a professional master’s degree in International Negotiation and Policymaking from Institut De Hautes Études Internationales Et Du Développement,...
The S-400 Deal and Pakistan’s Quest for Strategic Stability
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
The 20-year old nuclear dyad in South Asia has been typified by the action-reaction model, whereby arch-rivals, India and Pakistan have buttressed their deterrence mix and...
Security & Conflict – Developing a Gender Lens
Salma Malik
Looking back in history, the last decade of the Cold War was a very happening time. As the curtain slowly drew on the Cold War, the world theatre...
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Agni-Prime: Read P for Pakistan
The successful test launch of India's 'Agni Prime', a new-generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile, marks a significant advancement in...
Mapping the Challenges to Pakistan’s Geoeconomic Pivot
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In January 2022, Pakistan's National Security Division (NSD) launched the country’s first-ever National Security Policy (NSP), marking...
Navigating Pakistan’s Security Challenges Through Emerging Technologies
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Recent trends indicate that the nature and conduct of war are transmuting as emerging technologies (ETs) have...