Senior Fellow for South & Central Asian Defence Strategy & Diplomacy @IISS_org; RT not endorsement; Views my own; #SouthAsia-#China in #IndoPacific #Nuclear
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Joined February 2012
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#India-#Pakistan #nuclear #deterrence & #stability are important but rarely urgent. So what for 🇮🇳, 🇵🇰, us all?
▫️Read 👇the new report I wrote and published with my @iiss_org colleagues D. Bowen & J. Gill
▫️Read 👉my shorter take bit.ly/3fK7mER bit.ly/3fnBA1f
There are grave deficiencies and asymmetries in India’s and Pakistan’s nuclear doctrines, which are compounded by mutual disbelief, existing and emerging military capabilities, and the prolonged absence of related dialogue mechanisms. 1/2 | New report: go.iiss.org/3woBkoi
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"Situation in the India-China border areas gets disturbed from time to time when Chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns. Both sides continue to use existing diplomatic and military mechanisms...", says MEA Spox on ITBP chief's Arunachal Remarks
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Pour la première fois, les Typhoon de la @RoyalAirForce ont rejoint les Rafale de @Armee_de_lair pour participer à un exercice organisé par les forces aériennes stratégiques de la composante nucléaire aéroportée. Un jalon décisif de la coopération de défense 🇫🇷🇬🇧, démontrant la coordination et l'engagement des deux puissances nucléaires européennes en faveur de la sécurité de l'Europe et d’une dissuasion crédible.
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A rare keynote address on ‘Nuclear Deterrence and Strategic Stability in South Asia’ was delivered at the IISS in London by Lieutenant General (Retd) Mazhar Jamil – Adviser to the National Command Authority (NCA), Government of Pakistan, and former Director-General of the Strategic Plans Division (SPD) (2015–17) – at the 11th ‘track 1.5’ IISS–CISS workshop, on 13 October 2026. This was the first time a former Pakistan SPD chief had spoken in London since 2020.
Recording and transcript available: go.iiss.org/47ohb6F
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We look forward to hosting the 22nd edition of the IISS Manama Dialogue in the Kingdom of Bahrain in just two weeks’ time. It’s an essential forum to understand Middle Eastern security issues and their global implications | #IISS_MD26 go.iiss.org/MD26
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Ravi d’avoir présenté hier soir le film d’Alexandre Smia (scénario: Alexandre Smia et Thomas Finkielkraut, avec quelques conseils de ma part) à la communauté stratégique et militaire. Un film dont la naissance date d’il y a trois ans déjà mais les paris narratifs que nous avons fait à l’époque lui donnent une résonance particulière aujourd’hui. Pas de spoiler, mais sachez qu’à mon sens, le cœur du film… n’est pas un cœur nucléaire.
“The final crises that led to the first and second world wars both involved alliance systems and security commitments that had lost credibility.”
Are we sleepwalking into World War III? ft.trib.al/uniZyFL
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Lt. Gen. (Retd) Mazhar Jamil, Adviser National Command Authority, and Ambassador Ali Sarwar Naqvi, Executive Director Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS), visited the Pakistan High Commission along with a delegation of distinguished senior diplomats, academics and foreign policy analysts. They were received by High Commissioner @Tipuusman.
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“India and Pakistan have also struck each other’s territory, despite the fact that both are nuclear-weapons states.”
Yes. The evidence from that singular conflict, and, perhaps more importantly, from lessons learnt since, are far from unidimensional and shared across both sides.
Opinion: The weakening of Russian deterrence has global implications — and they are not all positive. ft.trib.al/y5RGS2V
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The Global Innovation Index ranks 139 economies based on 79 indicators, from R&D spending to school test scores. These four charts track how countries are performing economist.com/graphic-detail…
“If you over-restrict, you bring desperation… desperation creates a huge appetite for people to accelerate their own technology and, potentially, at some point, become strong competitors” - ASML CEO on export controls.
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“Exploding something in the atmosphere, or doing something quite small in the battlefield” - Then US DNI on what Russia’s 2022 nuclear use threats were assessed to mean (they prompted leaders, incl India and China’s, to seek to dissuade Russia)
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“Today’s challenge is both a mismatch between our institutions and AI’s capabilities, and one between the nature of the threat and our capacity to comprehend it”
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The International Institute for Strategic Studies is pleased to announce that, together with the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), it will reconvene the IISS Stockholm Civil Defence Forum in 2027.
The inaugural staging of the Forum in April 2026 successfully brought together political, military and industrial leaders to engage in discussions on how to approach civil defence and the challenges that lie ahead.
Further announcements including the dates for the 2027 IISS Stockholm Civil Defence Forum will be made in due course.
Find out more on this year’s proceedings here: go.iiss.org/4rr7Fc3
IISS Stockholm Civil Defence Forum 2027 | #IISS_SCDF27
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From innovation and procurement to spending and military mobilisation, the aim of #IISS_PDS26 is to inspire major public debate on European and transatlantic defence capability development, and to help to translate policy goals into true defence capabilities | go.iiss.org/PDS26
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Minister of Defence Häkkänen: Finland will join the French initiative on European nuclear deterrence valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/23655…
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Rivals Altman and Musk rally behind Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown ft.trib.al/3UWLFCQ
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Yemeni militants sought to use Anthropic’s Claude AI model to develop guidance, control and navigation software for its ballistic missiles, the US company said. ft.trib.al/A5lMllf
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The Brics summit in New Delhi, expected to bring China’s leader to India for the first time in seven years, will be a showcase for the two nations’ attempts to set aside disagreements and project a global role. ft.trib.al/VqdfEne
