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

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.

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