Deterrence in the Shadows India Pakistan and the Mutation of Conflict in the Hybrid Age
By: Shafqat Ali Qureshi The grammar of deterrence in South Asia has long been written in the language of nuclear parity, conventional force balance, and the uneasy stability that emerges when adversaries possess the capacity to inflict unacceptable damage upon one another. For
South Asia’s Reconfigured Deterrence Logic in the Age of Hybrid and Multi-Domain Warfare
Deterrence in South Asia is no longer anchored solely in the classical grammar of tanks, territory, and nuclear signaling. It is increasingly shaped by a far more diffuse and continuous form of competition in which cyber intrusions, drone operations, satellite surveillance, economic pressure,
Controlled Maritime Dominance and the Rewriting of Deterrence in the Strait of Hormuz
The evolution of maritime security doctrine in the twenty first century reflects a decisive movement away from the rigid binaries of war and peace toward a more fluid spectrum of calibrated control. Within this shifting doctrinal landscape, the concept of controlled maritime dominance