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.
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.
Pakistan’s defense and security landscape faces a complex array of multilateral challenges, including both kinetic and non-kinetic threats, technological disruptions, and newly emerging threats.
The continued cliche of the famous “Strategic Depth” used to beat Pakistan with was a ridiculous concept, thrown up by a brigadier at the National Defense University (NDU), then known as the NDC, was purely an academic discussion, never a State Policy.
From Cold War nuclear and conventional deterrence to central and extended deterrence, and the problem of deterring non-state actors in proxy warfare.
How India’s Cold Start Doctrine met Pakistan’s tactical nuclear weapons, and why consistent capability, credibility and communication sustain deterrence.
Part 1 of a study of Operation Black Thunderstorm: how close KP and FATA came to collapse before 2008, and the forces the Army and FC took into Dir.
How the Cold War nuclear triad concept applies to South Asia: India’s dual-threat arsenal versus Pakistan’s India-specific triad of Ra’ad and Babur-3.
Decorated with Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Mil), and Sitar-e-Jurat, Lieutenant General Masood Aslam (Retired) served for almost 40 years in the Pakistan Army. He was seriously wounded during the 1971 War with India and was awarded Imtiazi Sanad.
Kashmir is a nuclear flashpoint and is the main reason why Pakistan and India remain antagonistic towards each other. In the recent days, after an intense disinformation campaign on Indian media about mutilation of Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops at LOC, the tensions are rising again.
