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Governments and military leaders have always sought to win fights and wars already in the minds and hearts of the enemy before on the battlefield. Sun-Tzu formalized this aspiration in his ancient treatise on the art of war, but it is only in recent times that we have moved from an often unfulfilled hope to something that materializes with so far extraordinary results.
Classical Geopolitics has a maxim by Halford Mackinder that states 'He who rules the Heartland, rules the world'. This principle has underpinned a century and more of geopolitical planning and action around the world, particularly by the thalassocratic powers, the Sea Civilisation, against the tellurocratic powers, the Land Civilisation, in a dual conflict whose understanding is fundamental to understanding what is happening in the world.
Along with the concept of hybrid warfare, which we have already discussed in the previous report[i], the term "grey zone" (GZ) is actively used in the Western military-political community, has undergone the same transformation a
In early January 2020, the RAND Corporation published its latest research report on Russia entitled “Russia’s Hostile Measures.
The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) will hold Seminar on Understanding Strategic Coercion
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