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by Sajid Aziz.... The post-Pulwama military crisis and India’s recent move to revoke articles 370 and 35(A), which gave Indian-held Kashmir a distinct constitutional status and administrative structure, have not only raised the ominous prospect of war between the two nuclear-armed South Asian states but has also led to some interesting comparisons between India and Israel, especially
by Saima Aman Sial.... Crisis is a situation between states which is characterized by surprise (sudden, unexpected) and poses a threat (potential to harm the interest of a state), which requires decision-making by a state in a time-constrained environment in order to prevent further escalation into a full-blown conflict or war. In South Asian crises,
by Afeera Firdous.... The news of a cyber-attack (cyber espionage operation in September 2019) on India’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant caused major concern for security analysts, scholars and India’s neighbours. It reminded one of the popular phrase ‘Cyber War is coming’, from the 1993 RAND Corporation report authored by John Aquila and David Ronfeldt. Whether the threat of a cyber