Abstract
The dynamics of South Asian security are in a transition
phase. On the one hand is India with her economic, military
and strategic rise, and its propping up as a strategic bulwark to
China and on the other Pakistan faced with multiple internal,
external, economic, military, and strategic constraints. It is
argued that the constraining environment makes it critical for
Pakistan‘s national security to take drastic doctrinal and
strategic initiatives to prevent the emerging hegemon‘s
coercive tactics. This requires a well-calculated doctrinal,
command and control, and architectural restructuring as a
response strategy that vertically strengthens its nuclear
deterrent posture. Additionally, Pakistan has to evolve a
mechanism for pre-delegation of authority to its regional
commands — central, northern and southern — well
interfaced with the National Command Authority (NCA)
along with resilient delivery systems to robustly reinforce its
nuclear deterrent capabilities. Vertical strategic strengthening
would go a long way in not only deterring the rising
hegemon‘s military muscle with an adequate array of strategic,
non-strategic battlefield nuclear weapons with multiple
delivery systems but, at the same time, by being wellintegrated with NCA‘s organizational configurations, make its
doctrine effective.
Dr. Zulfqar Khan. (2015) Countering the Hegemon: Pakistan’s Strategic Response, IPRI Journal, Volume-15, Issue-1.
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