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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...
Trumpting the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
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Afghanistan once again lives up to its part-legend part-mythical reputation of unceremoniously ousting foreign invaders. Whether it was the documenting of the fatal siege of Kabul Residency that...
The Widening Gulf: Why Taliban Do Not Want to Talk with the Afghan Government?
Qadir Khan Yousafzai
The year 2019 is being considered important in the Afghan peace process and US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. This is primarily because of constant rounds of talks between...
Between Islam and Ethics: Deterrence Makes the Scare Go
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
“We will not hesitate to use any weapon in our arsenal as our security is more dear to us than the advice of international leaders which...
A Page from History : Ode to Badaber
Now that the time has come to bury Badaber, it is ironically fitting that no effort to reconstruct its life can be made at Rawalpindi. Its early days are...
Military Technologies, Fifth Generation Warfare and Policy Implications for Pakistan
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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...
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
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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
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“For the present, we are at war and do not grasp the dimensions of the conflict.”
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The term Fifth-Generation War has become a favorite acronym in Pakistan...
U.S. Comes to Pakistan to Break the Afghan-Taliban Stalemate
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