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Pakistan point of view
Exploitation of domestic fault lines like political, economic and societal is the main target of hybrid warfare. The incremental approach that is followed in hybrid warfare is designed to gut a state from within. Hybrid warfare is very much relevant to Pakistan. In fact, the state and society of Pakistan is already fighting hybrid warfare launched by India for destabilizing Pakistan.
Through hybrid warfare, strategic objective that adversary is trying is achieve is not annihilation of Pakistan as state but making her so weak that Pakistan accepts Indian bid of supremacy in South Asia and compromises her vital interests and accepts resolution of outstanding disputes on Indian terms. Recent unearthing of spying network after Kulbhushan Yadav was captured by intelligence agencies of Pakistan show that there has been shift of tactics from India. After the overt nuclearisation of Pakistan, any conventional war adventure will be too costly for India. Fighting hybrid war against Pakistan under the rubric of nuclear weapons has become preferred strategy by India.
Pakistan due to deliberate policies adopted by ruling elite both civilian and military for furthering their rule has become a regressive society where alternative perspective or dissent is discouraged and often dissenters are silenced through threats or actual use of violence. In Pakistan, the culture of narrative management and manipulation strategy by certain state institutions has created intellectual void.
Selling Pakistan’s view abroad has become increasingly difficult because of absence of effective intellectuals for disseminating Pakistan’s rationale of policies adopted. Information domain has become extremely important for effectively disseminating the narrative of the country to both domestic and foreign audiences.
Absence of broad base of independent scholars and scholarship has created intellectual gap. Adversary is effectively utilizing the dearth of capable human resource in information domain hence Pakistan’s perspective is highly underrepresented. Pakistan’s adversary on one hand is exploiting the ideological and social differences among Pakistan’s society and on other hand is constructing alternative narratives about Pakistan’s state and security institutions for effectively harming Pakistan’s view abroad.
The presence of educated Indian Diaspora especially engaged in policy influencing institutions in Capitol Hill gives India a structured cost effective tool for favourable disposition. The policy of investing in people is now working as force multiplier for India in international politics through effective utilization of Indian-Americans for furthering foreign policy objectives. The combination of diplomatic pressure and international sanctioning of certain Pakistani individuals and organizations alleged to be involved in terrorism by UN Security Council Committee established under UN Resolution 1267 is reflection of US power exploited by India through sustained campaign.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/relevance-of-hybrid-warfare-to-pakistan.480164/
Exploitation of domestic fault lines like political, economic and societal is the main target of hybrid warfare. The incremental approach that is followed in hybrid warfare is designed to gut a state from within. Hybrid warfare is very much relevant to Pakistan. In fact, the state and society of Pakistan is already fighting hybrid warfare launched by India for destabilizing Pakistan.
Through hybrid warfare, strategic objective that adversary is trying is achieve is not annihilation of Pakistan as state but making her so weak that Pakistan accepts Indian bid of supremacy in South Asia and compromises her vital interests and accepts resolution of outstanding disputes on Indian terms. Recent unearthing of spying network after Kulbhushan Yadav was captured by intelligence agencies of Pakistan show that there has been shift of tactics from India. After the overt nuclearisation of Pakistan, any conventional war adventure will be too costly for India. Fighting hybrid war against Pakistan under the rubric of nuclear weapons has become preferred strategy by India.
Pakistan due to deliberate policies adopted by ruling elite both civilian and military for furthering their rule has become a regressive society where alternative perspective or dissent is discouraged and often dissenters are silenced through threats or actual use of violence. In Pakistan, the culture of narrative management and manipulation strategy by certain state institutions has created intellectual void.
Selling Pakistan’s view abroad has become increasingly difficult because of absence of effective intellectuals for disseminating Pakistan’s rationale of policies adopted. Information domain has become extremely important for effectively disseminating the narrative of the country to both domestic and foreign audiences.
Absence of broad base of independent scholars and scholarship has created intellectual gap. Adversary is effectively utilizing the dearth of capable human resource in information domain hence Pakistan’s perspective is highly underrepresented. Pakistan’s adversary on one hand is exploiting the ideological and social differences among Pakistan’s society and on other hand is constructing alternative narratives about Pakistan’s state and security institutions for effectively harming Pakistan’s view abroad.
The presence of educated Indian Diaspora especially engaged in policy influencing institutions in Capitol Hill gives India a structured cost effective tool for favourable disposition. The policy of investing in people is now working as force multiplier for India in international politics through effective utilization of Indian-Americans for furthering foreign policy objectives. The combination of diplomatic pressure and international sanctioning of certain Pakistani individuals and organizations alleged to be involved in terrorism by UN Security Council Committee established under UN Resolution 1267 is reflection of US power exploited by India through sustained campaign.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/relevance-of-hybrid-warfare-to-pakistan.480164/