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How doctrine feeds strategy

We old-timers have a problem. We remain stuck in a groove. But then there is that age-old maxim: the more things change, the more they remain the...

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Should Iran have the bomb?

Ten days after the ceasefire between Iran and Israel the consensus among most observers, including the IAEA, is that Iran has saved enough fissile...

04.07.2025 20

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The useless war

The US blundered into an unnecessary war. Without a rationale and out of some unexplained compulsion, stories have emerged how Trump made the decision...

28.06.2025 30

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Slugfest in the Middle East

Slugfest, yes; but of no ordinary consequences. It will take the world to keep it contained. Iran in the western construct is Middle East, not West...

20.06.2025 70

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The dilemma of the right strategic choice

Right or wrong, fallacious or prudent, assertive or devastative, India has announced its intent. She calls it the 'new normal' and call it what we...

07.06.2025 20

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Preparing for the next round

Three things stand out from the four-day war: one, it began on a conventional note but quickly progressed to what is increasingly likely to constitute...

30.05.2025 20

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The politics behind Indo-Pak war

Who did Pahalgam, no one may ever know. India has stonewalled any attempt by Pakistan and the vociferous appeal by entire international community to...

24.05.2025 90

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The road ahead

The military, especially the air force, made the nation proud. But what is done, is in the past, however stellar it was. Today and tomorrow is another...

17.05.2025 30

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Why war should not be an option

Many moons ago, strategists from both India and Pakistan had concluded that war of the type that the two countries fought in 1965 or 1971 was not an...

03.05.2025 100

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Trump's war on trade

Trump was sworn in as the disruptor-in-chief when he became the President of the US. With both houses of Congress in his control he could unleash what...

26.04.2025 60

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Hard outside, soft inside

11.04.2025 40

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More on India's grand design

03.04.2025 10

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India's grand design

28.03.2025 40

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Balochistan needs the 3-D solution

21.03.2025 100

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Zelensky has a weak hand

06.03.2025 30

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Are we global laggards?

28.02.2025 70

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Political decay

14.02.2025 50

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Wars in the Age of AI

07.02.2025 100

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What next?

23.01.2025 10

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Time to refresh our Liddle Hart

17.01.2025 30

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Will 2025 be any different?

Or will 2024 simply slide into 2025? The world, after a poignant 2024 in which it was raked up at many levels, will be reaping the fruits of its...

02.01.2025 10

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Talking with the PTI: prospects

The battle on both sides has multidimensional objectives. The PTI in the short term wants Imran Khan released; the Government has very little...

26.12.2024 5

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World has gone a little crazy'

President-elect Donald Trump said this in France as news rolled in of Syrian regime folding before the rebel onslaught of largely the HTS - a group...

12.12.2024 5

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Terrain, water, geography and culture

I have followed a Pakistani travel blogger for over two years now. Abrar Hassan is a naturalised German, an aeronautical engineer by profession but...

28.11.2024 3

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The war within

It may sound harsh but is worthy of introspection: forces meant to fight at the border and beyond to enhance their perimeter of security when...

21.11.2024 3

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When we take too much for granted

First the 'we'. These are the status quo practitioners; incumbents who are part of an order and unwilling to change for personal, tribal or...

14.11.2024 3

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Why trading with the enemy is our best option

Travelling between Dubai and Abu Dhabi one cannot but be reminded of how Pakistani labour and professional support has raised the region from a...

08.11.2024 10

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The war in the Middle East

Rather than find adulatory or denigrative classifications to the mayhem in the Middle East, Tom Friedman of the NYT clubs the two sides as the '...

03.10.2024 3

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Politics through other means

Why the turmoil of contestation? We seem to be fighting for credibility and democracy, the two binding pillars of the state-society construct. If a...

27.09.2024 7

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Baloch restiveness

Baloch restiveness is as old as Pakistan. Initially the State of Kalat, which was an independent entity under the British took its time to accede...

06.09.2024 10

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Saving graces

The last two years in Pakistan have been anarchic for a more explanatory term. A weaker nation would have rolled over. A poly-crisis of political...

30.08.2024 3

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Deep state and American politics

The two principal political protagonists were well defined, except when the 82-year-old President Biden decided against running for reelection...

15.08.2024 2

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People power

There are numerous lessons to learn from the Bangladesh experience. A common history may not necessarily mean that the two people who were one have...

09.08.2024 4

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Banning PTI

To what end? Imran Khan banned TLP, and it is occupying the nerve-centre on the main arteries of Pindi and Islamabad; all simply look on, quite...

19.07.2024 6

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