Challenges for Pakistan in Countering Hybrid Warfare: An Analysis
Keywords:
Conventional, non-conventional, cyber-attacks, hard-power, soft-power, warfare generations.Abstract
This paper aims to find out that Hybrid Warfare is the artificially-created conflict to disturb the identity of a country. These identity pillars could be threatened by external factors using the internal factors. Pakistan has the hard power challenges and soft power challenges in the simplest form. Hard power means the military and kinetic elements whereas soft power means non-kinetic, tangible and intangible elements. If it is talked about the spectrum, then it is about the A to Z spectrum. There are tactics of maligning, there is even sectarian and ethnic exploitation taking place. Terrorism itself will only go to kinetic means. Then it is nuclear, which is a full spectrum. In the hard power domain, Pakistan did well. Our armed forces broke the 50-year-old myth that India has the upper hand by kicking out Indian air forces. However, Pakistan is weak in the soft power domain.
