Defense Security

Defense & Security encompasses the full scope of Pakistan’s national security concerns, from economics and trade to financial and violent terrorism.

We believe that national security is not just the purview of the Pakistan armed forces. We believe that it includes every level of government, private and public individuals, trade and sanctions, and political instability.

At CommandEleven, our objectives aren’t just tactical and kinetic, but operational and psychological.

26 February 2019 – India’s Balakot air strike

Ajay Basaria, India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan in 2019, claimed how India’s coercive diplomacy in the wake of India’s Balakot attack forced Pakistan to return Wing Commander Abhinandan whose MiG 21 was shot down by the PAF during Operation Swift Retort.

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Operation Azm-e-Istehkam (“Resolve for Stability”)

For many days, CommandEleven has held back on providing an analysis of the proposed operation, its targets and the potential pitfalls it will face because we know how Pakistan operates, and how quickly public statements are backtracked from grand operations to minor grunts of force.

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Selecting an Army Chief

Ours is not the only country in which the military has guns, but is certainly amongst those where the political power continues to flow through their barrel. If that’s what led some of our selectors go down the ladder to find an army chief who would spare their throne, it always backfired: not necessarily because of a bad choice

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Challenges and Opportunities

Since the Chinese seem to have the Indians in a bind in Ladakh, it might be good idea to find out how they intended to play it out. In view of our higher than Himalaya ties, it should not be too difficult a proposition. In fact we should assume that the two countries had synchronised their plans.

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