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Hammer Strike and the Mangla Logic – Pakistan's I Corps and the Architecture of Offensive Deterrence

Lt. Gen. Nauman Zakaria's address at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2026 is best understood not as a statement but as a doctrine brief. Hammer Strike is the mature culmination of a decade of Pakistani conventional thinking, built squarely on the structural opening that Galwan created.

May 30, 2026

7 min

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Quetta, Again

Four attacks. Same corridor. Same silence after. The Balochistan problem is not intelligence – it is the Army's refusal to delegate the file to the people capable of closing it.

May 24, 2026

1 min

The IRGC's Bet Paid Off. The Model Was Wrong From the Start.

A Lanchester-framed post-mortem on the 2026 Iran war: why the JINSA-FDD analytical ecosystem got the attrition calculus wrong, how the IRGC's missile-drone doctrine performed against its own design objectives, and what the Hormuz closure was actually aimed at.

April 12, 2026

23 min

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Hamas’ Negotiation Coup: How Trump Unwittingly Elevated Gaza’s Terms

Hamas has indeed accepted certain terms while refusing to disarm. What makes this moment historic is not only the movement’s discipline and hard power but the fact that its response was broad...

October 5, 2025

1 min