Veni, Viderunt, Vulneror: India’s Imprudent Submarine Operations on April 19, 2022Caesar’s phrase veni, vedi, vici is suggestive of a ‘swift and conclusive’ military victory, which literally means I came, I saw, I conquered. This also reflects Caesar’s intent, when he campaigned for conquering cities around Rome in the year 47 BC. If we modify the three worded Latin phrase to veni, viderunt, vulneror, which means: […]
Operational Delirium: Indian Navy’s Condescending Legacy on December 27, 2019Calling December 4, 1971, as a “decisive naval action by the Indian naval ships on Karachi Port”, which the Indian navy believes “heralded the victory of India over Pakistan” could merely be a sardonic claim. Indian navy’s Vidyut Class missile boats, Nipat, Nirghat and Veer armed with the ex-Soviet SSN-2B anti-ship missiles launched an attack […]
Pakistan Navy at seventy-two years of its existence on August 14, 2019Starting its journey with two frigates and four minesweepers, in 1947, Pakistan Navy came of age to become a reckonable naval force in the region. Unfair distribution of naval assets at the time of partition had left Navy in an extremely difficult position to start its capability development. Much of the warfighting, training and logistics […]
Regional Maritime Security Patrols (RMSP): The Pakistan Navy’s Initiative for Preserving Freedom of the Seas on July 13, 2019Security, generally, means a condition that makes an environment free from fear, threat and danger. In terms of international relations, more specifically, “security is taken to be about the pursuit of freedom from threat and the ability of states and societies to maintain their independent identity and their functional integrity against forces of change, which […]
Regional Maritime Security Patrols (RMSP): Pak Navy’s Initiative to Preserve Freedom of the Seas on May 31, 2019Pakistan believes that region’s security and economic priorities can best be preserved by regional countries. Security, generally, means a condition that makes an environment free from fear, threat and danger. In terms of international relations, more specifically, “security is taken to be about the pursuit of freedom from threat and the ability of states and […]