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.
7 min
Pakistan Army
Hammer Strike
Doctrine
Cold Start
Deterrence
India–Pakistan
