Hybrid Warfare and Neo-colonialism on January 25, 2019Why neo-colonial societies/states are relatively more vulnerable to the impact of hybrid warfare than other societies/states? The short essay answers the aforementioned key question by substantiating the central argument that there exists a sort of symbiotic co-evolutionary relationship between neo colonialism (hegemonic project) and hybrid warfare (modus-operandi). In fact, the latter was matured as a […]
Hybrid warfare and Pakistan policy options on December 16, 2018Hybrid warfare is primarily marked by the characteristic of interpenetrated fluidity which renders the conventional watertight demarcation among different spheres/trajectories of conflict obsolete. Additionally, it’s a 5th generation warfare approach whose’ discursive foundations are somewhat closer to the postmodernism. It is a holistic approach which mobilizes and subsequently synergizes the entire spectrum of society in […]
Deterrence and nuclear-deterrence on April 27, 2018The following text attempts to mark the difference between symmetry, capability, deterrence and power. Through ontological demarcation among these concepts, it argues that Pakistan’s obsession like pursuit to attain and subsequently sustain the parity/symmetry in nuclear deterrence with India has weakened the overall prospects of power-equilibrium in Indo-Pak relations for an advantage to the latter […]
Pakistan needs a coherent foreign policy on April 15, 2018The contemporary world order is in a painful transition from unipolarity to multipolarity. It is facing an unprecedented degree of dislocation in contemporary situation since its inception after WW-II. The foreign policy-discourse at international level is observing two-predominant patterns in response to this abnormal-situation (dislocation), which can best be subsumed in an agreement with Pentagon’s […]