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After gaining independence, Pakistan realized that, in order to endure and safeguard . freedom, it ought to attain a strategic wherewithal to thwart malicious designs of its enemy....
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Saudi Minister of State...
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Book Review | Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
Book Title: Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy
Author: Francis J. Gavin
ISBN: 978-0-8157-3791-9
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2020
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
In the nuclear academy, Robert Jervis’ 1989 book titled “The...
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Book Review | China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia
Author: Daniel S. Markey
ISBN: 978-0190680190
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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