BALUCH AND PASHTUN UNITY1. X (erstwhile Twitter) threw up two interesting and unconnected pieces of information, but to the discerning eye that is watching…Jan 3, 2024Jan 3, 2024
SOCIAL FITNESS AND 360 DEGREE APPRAISALS1. Three incidents in the recent past although geographically separated and prima facie disconnected must ring an alarm bell as loud as…Oct 15, 2023Oct 15, 2023
SECTARIAN FAULT LINES IN FATA/KPKChitral was in the news recently with TTP launching a full-fledged incursion across the Durand Line and inflicting sizeable casualties on…Sep 17, 2023Sep 17, 2023
MERGER OF LEVELS OF WARFARE1. Levels of warfare are compartmentalized into three silos, strategy, operational art and tactics. Each level is to be acted upon and…Sep 10, 2023Sep 10, 2023
INFLUENCE OF JOMINI ON MODERN MILITARY THOUGHTModern military thought has been shaped by a myriad of historical figures, strategies, and doctrines. Among the influential thinkers…Aug 22, 20231Aug 22, 20231
SCIENCE, ART AND PHILOSOPHY OF WARThis is an enquiry into the quintessential question of whether war is a science, art or philosophy. To start with Sun Zi’s (yes that is the…Jun 29, 2023Jun 29, 2023
INTEGRATED DETERRENCE OF USA & INDIA’S CHALLENGE1. Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore this year was abuzz with hyperbole, insinuations and strategic signalling with Russia, USA, China and…Jun 11, 2023Jun 11, 2023
DETERRENCE OF GREY ZONE WARFARE“When Deterrence fails, wars happen, when Deterrence succeeds Grey Zone happens, when Grey Zone fails, wars happen again.” — MeJun 3, 2023Jun 3, 2023
DECISIVE VICTORY1. Armed Forces have always sought “Swift Decisive Victory”. All plans /strategies or force application matrices are aimed at achieving a…Mar 8, 2023Mar 8, 2023
STRATEGIC DEPTH: RECIPE FOR CONFLICTS1. Three major flash points of the world today Ukraine, South China Sea and AFPAK are victims of the hypothesis of ‘strategic depth’. Be it…Feb 26, 2023Feb 26, 2023
DISSUASIVE DETERRENCE: A CONCEPT OR STRATEGYDissuasion as a concept has made a late entry into the lexicon of military planners and commanders in India where it has been clubbed with…Feb 13, 2023Feb 13, 2023
INDIA’S NEW PANIPAT AND SOMNATH1. Nature of war remains unaltered and character of war continues to evolve has a fair degree of truism attached to this Clauswitzian…Jan 15, 2023Jan 15, 2023
LULL AFTER THE STORM1. The famous idiom which we have got used to and brace for quite often is, ‘lull before the storm’ but the one which is holding true for…Jan 4, 20231Jan 4, 20231
SINDHI FREEDOM MOVEMENT1. In the aftermath of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination on 27 Dec 07, thousands of angry protesters took to the streets…Dec 11, 2022Dec 11, 2022
PRICE WE PAY FOR PRICE LAW1. We have often quoted Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule) and in most cases when overburdened with work and envious of those without it. A…Nov 25, 2022Nov 25, 2022
PASHTUN AND PUNJAB: DIVIDED DESTINY1. The botched-up assassination attempt on PTI Chief Imran Khan seems to be the last straw which has broken the camel’s back on which rode…Nov 5, 2022Nov 5, 2022
COGNITIVE DOMINANCE AT OPERATIONAL LEVEL1. Etymology of military lexicon is no more a study in the past but as much a study of the present. Words and phrases coined very recently…Oct 13, 2022Oct 13, 2022
