Hybrid warfare describes the deliberate integration of conventional military force with irregular, cyber, informational, economic, and psychological instruments to achieve strategic objectives while remaining below the threshold that triggers a conventional military response. It is the dominant mode of conflict between major powers in the current era — employed by Russia across Eastern Europe, by Iran across the Middle East and beyond, by China in the South China Sea and the information domain, and by a range of state and non-state actors who have learned that the most effective attacks on adversaries often leave no bomb craters.
CommandEleven’s hybrid warfare analysis examines the full spectrum of grey-zone operations — from IRGC proxy network architecture and TTP narrative warfare against Pakistan, to Chinese influence operations, to the cyber-kinetic model reshaping conflict along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Our analysts assess both the tactics and the strategic logic of hybrid campaigns, identifying the indicators and decision points that precede escalation to kinetic conflict.
This category is essential reading for defence sector professionals, national security policy makers, and intelligence consumers who need to understand how the adversaries of open societies wage war without declarations, armies, or battles in the traditional sense.
American efforts in Afghanistan are back to square one these days as a second troop surge seems to be on the cards, recently General Nicholson apprised the Senate that thousands of troops are required in Afghanistan as the U.S. mission is in a ‘stalemate’, he also went on to admit that the Taliban had gained at least 15% more ground in 2016 even though 13,000 international troops remained in the country.
Lt. General Tariq Khan (retired), our most senior and respected advisor and board members was interviewed on Aaj Tv’s Sairbeen programme on 5 May, 2017. His opinions were misrepresented on the show. This is the clarification to the editing that was done to his comments.
The statement of Mr. Ahsan Iqbal clearly expresses that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is pivotal for both Pakistan and China. It is a $ 46 billion project, which will connect Chinese province of Xinjiang with Pakistani port of Gwadar through the land route.
The Fourth Generation Warfare is characterized by a return to decentralized forms of warfare, blurring of the lines between war and politics, combatants and civilians due to nation states‘ loss of their near-monopoly on combat forces, returning to modes of conflict common in pre-modern times.
The job of the media in every civilized nation to inform and educate the public, to take the difficult problems, policies and government positions and make them easier to understand for their readers and viewers.
This event will be the one most recalled because this is where the public believes the operation in Karachi started. What the public doesn’t know is that for almost a month prior, intelligence-based operations (IBOs) were carried out in the city against terrorists, financiers, and supporters.
