CIA’s Drones Warfare And The Human Story
If one looks at the total number of drone strikes resulting in casualties inside Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) from 2004 until 2014, they […]
Category: Military
Voices this Week – Zarb-e-Azb
Voices this Week draws together published material on an important strategic issue in South Asia. This week: commentary and analysis on the Pakistan Army’s ongoing operations […]
Zarb-e-Azb’s blow backs
One could sense that it was impending and it came with a bang! The civil-military schisms which had surfaced over negotiations with a non-state actor […]
Modi and his “Politics of Muscle”
With “his finger” on India’s “nuclear button” PM Modi has assumed the charge of the political council of India’s Nuclear Command Authority (NCA). The NCA […]
Is there a debate about Nasr/Hatf-IX within Pakistan?
On November 5, 2013 Pakistan flight tested its short range battlefield missile Nasr/Hatf-IX. The test involved successive firing of four missiles (Salvo) from a multi-tube […]
Pakistan: Nuclear Materials are not on the loose
Admittedly, prior to the detection of A.Q Khan Network, nuclear materials security in Pakistan was on the loose especially in the context of nuclear weapons […]
India’s Impending Strategic Culture Debate, Part I
“India is a country where not only the future but even the past is unpredictable.” – Wendy Doniger, 2009 *** Indologist Wendy Doniger said that […]
“Long live the King!”
IR theory often makes use of domestic analogy to explain international relations. Based on the idea that states are similar to individuals, domestic analogy rests […]
In the Absence of Women
“Magistrate: And where do you get off taking an interest in war and peace?” Jeffrey Henderson, Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women, Second Edition, Routledge […]
Pakistan’s Nuclear Trajectory: Punching Below its Weight – Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of a response to “Pakistan’s Red-Carpet Treatment,” Part 1 of this piece appears here. When Pakistan attempts to consolidate its strategic forces and […]