Hybrid Warfare: A Fifth Generation Perspective; An Analysis of Shifting Paradigm in Conflict and it’s Relevance to Pakistan by Sohail Nasir Khan instant download

Hybrid Warfare: A Fifth Generation Perspective; An Analysis of Shifting Paradigm in Conflict and it’s Relevance to Pakistan by Sohail Nasir Khan instant download

A traditionalist, unbounded state-centric approach embedded in realism as expounded by Buzan’s concept of security, along with regional security complex theory, and superimposed by the construct of macro-securitization, underlines the prevailing chaotic international system. 
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Hybrid warfare seems to sink the world into a perpetual state of simmering conflict. In case of developing nations like Pakistan, Ayoob’s concept of subaltern realism further complicates the security equation, as it contrasts differences in how security is perceived by developed nations, and developing nations, where it is marred by issues like state’s legitimacy, control and political authority. If there is a single way to describe the future of warfare, it is as a deepening series of strategic dilemmas: between preparing for the low end of the spectrum of conflict, and the high ones.
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Identifying types of conflicts as counterterrorism, grey zone fights, asymmetric conflict and high end conflicts, a RAND study in 2020 asserts that the future of warfare defies any historical analogy.