title: Hybrid War Threats and Essence of Perception Management: Challenges for Pakistan
abstract: The Combat in the twenty first century is not only influenced by unprecedented technological and technical innovations but also characterized with progressive evolution of the art of warfighting. As the human and material costs of wars are getting untenable, the reliance seems to have shifted on cost-effective and result oriented strategies for defeating the enemy. Consequently, the approaches termed as hybrid, 4 th generation, 5 th generation, non-conventional, asymmetric and cyber warfare have
journal: IPRI Journal