India’s Nuclear Doctrine: Strategic Direction or Drift?
India’s official nuclear doctrine has remained unchanged since its adoption in 2003. Some may take this apparent continuity as evidence of India’s intentional strategic direction. […]
Pakistan’s Full-Spectrum Deterrence: Trends and Trajectories
Twenty years ago, the government of Pakistan decided to respond in kind to India’s nuclear tests in May 1998. Pakistan conducted six nuclear explosions to […]
Pakistan’s Consolidating Conventional Deterrence: An Assessment
Before the overt nuclearization of South Asia in 1998, three major wars between India and Pakistan highlighted the latter’s struggle to bridge the conventional imbalance. […]
Can India Compete with China in its Neighborhood?
Though India has been revitalizing its relations with countries across the world, its diplomatic skills have often been found wanting when it comes to dealing […]
تیسری قوت کے ذریعےجوہری امن کو برقرار رکھنا: جنوبی ایشیا کےلئے اثرات
تزویراتی لٹریچر یہ بتاتا ہے کہ کشیدگی کے اوقات میں جوہری دشمنوں کا مقصد براہِ راست حملے کو ڈیٹر کرنا (روکنا) ہے۔ اسے دوطرفہ ڈیٹرنس […]
India-Russia S-400 Deal: Regional Implications
Three years ago, in December 2015, India approved the purchase of the Russian-made S-400 Triumf air defense system, an anti-ballistic missile, anti-aircraft system, with the […]
Maintaining Nuclear Peace through Third Parties: Implications for South Asia
Strategic literature has generally posited that in crisis moments the goal of nuclear rivals is to deter direct attacks. This has been termed as a […]
India, Pakistan, and the Tussle of Escalation Dominance
The cancellation of a meeting between the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers that was to be held on the sidelines of the United Nations General […]
Deterrence Stability in South Asia: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
In a 2014 article titled “To Sea or Not to Sea: A Nuclear Triad in South Asia,” I had argued that nuclear weapons at sea […]
SAV Review: The New Era of Counterforce in South Asia
Instead of reducing reliance on nuclear capability as a step towards disarmament, nuclear weapons states have been steadily modernizing their nuclear forces. Offensive nuclear postures, […]