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Integrating Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) is afire amid recent clashes and firing leading to and during the recent regional Legislative Assembly elections held from July 27 to August 10, 2026. Amnesty International and media trackers say at least 40 deaths have been documented; 34 protesters and 6 police/paramilitary personnel.Local residents/activists and the Joint Awami Action Committee…
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Trump, Hormuz, and Strategic Exaggeration
President Donald Trump’s recent claim on Truth Social posts declaring that the United States has “total control” over the Strait of Hormuz is best comprehended as a stylistic assertion of dominance rather than an empirically defensible description of maritime reality.This blanket assertion mistakenly treats separate variables—military, operational, legal, and political—as a single absolute indivisible truth.…
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Dissecting Military Transformation.
India’s proposed three tri-service Theatre Commands (TCs) was covered in these columns earlier: Northern TC facing China; Western TC facing Pakistan; Maritime TC safeguarding maritime domain and projecting power in Indian and Pacific Oceans (https://www.thestrategicperspective.org/transforming-indian-military/). CDS was to present the plan to Defence Minister, followed by approval of Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), and Prime…
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