Hard Power has been used often in the context of national security by a number of States, if the aims have not been achieved it is primarily because of their inability to employ all elements of national power. The US national security system is grossly imbalanced and finds it easier to mobilize resources for Hard-Power…
“Soft Power” is the ability to make others do what you want, what they would otherwise not have done. Based on intangibles: i.e. less on what you own, and more on what you represent, others do what you want because of how they see you. What one wants can be done not just by States,…
1. General: Obama’s Wars under review tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on Afghanistan War, the clandestine missions in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. The books is a chronological compilation of quotes and paraphrases that Woodward has selected to demonstrate how the decision making process in this case actually…
“It is a twin-engined, twin-tailed aircraft….with four side windows, probably an eight-seater….it is flying at 3,000 ft AMSL. Request further instructions.” Flg Off Qais M Hussain, who had been scrambled from Mauripur Station to check a suspicious radar contact south-west of Bhuj, was reporting to the Ground Controlled Interception (GCI) controller at Badin’s FPS-20 radar.1…
Sahabzada Muhammad Yaqub Khan is part of that generation of the subcontinent that witnessed some of the most exciting events of the last seventy years. He was not only a witness but active participant in many events of these challenging times. Some events of his life seem to be the material for a novel rather…
