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Agni-V: A Weapon of Instability
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Agni V is India’s longest range, 5000 km, solid fuel propelled Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) which has been regularly tested every year since 2012. The only year it...
Military Technologies, Fifth Generation Warfare and Policy Implications for Pakistan
Najeeb Zaidi
It is trendy to give generational classifications to warfare based on technological changes. However, warfare has always been hybrid and has constantly been shaped by that generation’s technological...
India and China’s Environmental Governance: One Step Forward, One Step Backward
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The Illogic of Regime Change
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Grand Strategy And The Challenge Of Reaching AD 2100
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The comprehension of the total assets at the disposal of a state in relation to rational objectives vital for survival and prosperity and modified by the total capabilities...
Global Military Outlook : Implications for Pakistan
Syed Rifaat Hussain
Emerging trends
The modern state system which first emerged in Europe in the late 17th century, the Westphalian system, gradually spreading to the rest of the world, is...
Is India Aspiring to become Death,The Destroyer of Worlds?
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Robert Oppenheimer famously quoted the Indian Scripture Bhagavad-Gita upon witnessing the first nuclear detonation by the U.S. in 1945 when he said “Now I am become Death the...
Rebranding Nuclear Disarmament: Assessing Role and Impact of The Nuclear Ban Treat
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International efforts to achieve global nuclear disarmament are as old as the nuclear weapons development. The United Nations General Assembly’s first resolution in 1946 established a commission to...
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