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- Title
Pakistan's Evolving Doctrine and Emerging Force Posture: Conceptual Nuances and Implied Ramifications.
- Authors
Abdullah, Sannia
- Abstract
Pakistan's strategic planning is inspired both from the US and Russian war doctrines, and Pakistan has customized those doctrines into regional adaptations. Treading on the path of nuclear war-fighting force postures, it remains a challenge to differentiate the thin line between deterrence stability and escalation control. This challenge is unresolved, even in the second nuclear age between India and Pakistan. To overcome its conventional force disadvantage, Pakistan uses a full spectrum deterrence strategy to blur the gap between conventional and nuclear war in theory, thus making the possibility of nuclear-use a reality.
- Subjects
PAKISTAN; NUCLEAR warfare; TACTICAL nuclear weapons; UNITED Nations. General Assembly; POLITICAL doctrines
- Publication
Pakistan Horizon, 2018, Vol 71, Issue 1/2, p79
- ISSN
0030-980X
- Publication type
Article