Hybrid Warfare Strategy of India: Impacts on Pakistan
Hybrid warfare is a multi-faceted military strategy, an amalgam of conventional, irregular, and cyber warfare where technology adds exuberant intensification in the methods of hybridity to achieve political goals. The objective of this study is to conceptualize hybrid warfare, analyze India's hybrid warfare against Pakistan and suggest a counter-response to neutralize the hybrid forces working against Pakistan's stability and sovereignty. This study endeavors to develop a vantage point to understand the concept of hybrid warfare and its projection on Pakistan at internal and external fronts. This research analyzes data through qualitative methods and finds the related concepts and methods through content analysis and interpretative methodology.
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Hybrid Warfare, Strategy, Global Security Environment, Pakistan, India's Hybrid Warfare, Regional and Extional Actorsra-Reg
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(1) Nasreen Akhtar
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and IR, International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Inamullah Jan
Lecturer, Department of Politics and IR, International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Sumaira Akram
Independent Researcher
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APA : Akhtar, N., Jan, I., & Akram, S. (2021). Hybrid Warfare Strategy of India: Impacts on Pakistan. Global Regional Review, VI(II), 64-72. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).09
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CHICAGO : Akhtar, Nasreen, Inamullah Jan, and Sumaira Akram. 2021. "Hybrid Warfare Strategy of India: Impacts on Pakistan." Global Regional Review, VI (II): 64-72 doi: 10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).09
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HARVARD : AKHTAR, N., JAN, I. & AKRAM, S. 2021. Hybrid Warfare Strategy of India: Impacts on Pakistan. Global Regional Review, VI, 64-72.
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MHRA : Akhtar, Nasreen, Inamullah Jan, and Sumaira Akram. 2021. "Hybrid Warfare Strategy of India: Impacts on Pakistan." Global Regional Review, VI: 64-72
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MLA : Akhtar, Nasreen, Inamullah Jan, and Sumaira Akram. "Hybrid Warfare Strategy of India: Impacts on Pakistan." Global Regional Review, VI.II (2021): 64-72 Print.
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OXFORD : Akhtar, Nasreen, Jan, Inamullah, and Akram, Sumaira (2021), "Hybrid Warfare Strategy of India: Impacts on Pakistan", Global Regional Review, VI (II), 64-72
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TURABIAN : Akhtar, Nasreen, Inamullah Jan, and Sumaira Akram. "Hybrid Warfare Strategy of India: Impacts on Pakistan." Global Regional Review VI, no. II (2021): 64-72. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-II).09