“Army will win hybrid war with nation’s help,” said Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa. “We are facing the challenge that has been imposed on us in the form of the fifth-generation or hybrid war. Its purpose is to discredit the country and its armed forces and spread chaos,” he further added. For the past few years, Pakistan’s military establishment has been incessantly warning the nation against hybrid war and threats. Our armed forces’ profound understanding and readiness to this novel strategic threat and onslaught are highly commendable. Today, we’ll look deeper into the meanings of the hybrid war for the readers to understand in this brief treatise and its repercussions for our nation. Frank G. Hoffman, a foreign policy advisor at the US Foreign Policy Research Institute, was the first to propagate the notion of Hybrid Warfare. According to him, it’s a type of military strategy employing political, conventional, irregular, and cyberwarfare comingling other influencing approaches such as fake news, diplomacy, and foreign electoral intervention. Worryingly enough, in hybrid warfare, it is often difficult to spot aggressors with subversive efforts to impose attribution or retribution. India’s persistent hostile approach to Pakistan is an example of … Continue reading Pakistan’s Hybrid War