I guess everyone is missing the point in my first post. I can understand the war with India in a long run aren’t favorable for Pakistan. My point was Pakistan might use its max capability and force to damage India’s military infra as much as they can whether the offensive or defensive mode. Does India has the capability to stop full-blow adversary attack? I guess NO!
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Yes we can. But that will not be achieved through any conventional or non-conventional weapons. We will have to be smarter than that. Out of box thinking is the key. Keeping in mind the growing asymmetry in balance of power in the region, Pakistan's best bet is what is partially depicted on 27th Feb. PAF is the key but within PAF, our major focus must be to enhance ECM/ECCM capabilities and EMP weapons. One single strike can practically disable all enemy aircraft in multiple airbases located near by.
"NEMP weapons are designed to maximize such EMP effects as the primary damage mechanism, and some are capable of destroying susceptible electronic equipment over a wide area.
A high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) weapon is a NEMP warhead designed to be detonated far above the Earth's surface. The explosion releases a blast of gamma rays into the mid-
stratosphere, which ionizes as a secondary effect and the resultant energetic free electrons interact with the Earth's magnetic field to produce a much stronger EMP than is normally produced in the denser air at lower altitudes." from Wikipedia.
Problem is, an EMP strike is a nuclear strike with detonation taking place at high altitude. So it is a dangerous proposition as enemy can retaliate considering it a standard nuclear strike on ground. Though Non-Nuclear EMP options are there but I have not idea if they have been weaponized as yet plus their efficacy is very limited compared to NEMP devices. Still, a careful planning can make it work. Have few crazy ideas about that, but will never share here.
Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) are another area of EW warfare where we must work as it can cut our work short.I still remember PA did an exercise where lasers were used to disable enemy tanks and we discuss that in details.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/pakistan-army-has-tank-jamming-technology.424064/
Hopefully, people are still working on the tech. No reason to believe otherwise.
That is the top most spectrum of modern 6 dimensional warfare as defined by US DoD.
1- EW (Spectrum Warfare)
2- Cyber Warfare
3-Air
4-Space
5-Sea
6-Land
(I have put it in reverse order from where I see it taking affect). Now if we see from top, war fought in top 2 levels will end in minutes or hours maximum and if they continue beyond that, aggressor will capture/destroy enemy completely as the victim of first two will be a setting duck. 3 and 4 work in conjunction and can make work short but expansive and can work for a bigger enemy as it can field more asset in space and air than a smaller nation (Doesn't matter how good an aircraft or pilot is, it simply cannot be at 2 places at the same time). 5 and 6 are where our enemy clearly enjoy numerical and qualitative superiority. By looking at this list, one thing is crystal that if Pakistan is going to get any real hope in a war like situation to wield a complete control over theater of war, we will have to develop our capabilities in EW and Cyber warfare! In simplistic terms, Pakistan first need to redefine the concept of max capability. We have ignored Space for decades and now enemy has clear advantage there. We did exhibit EW tactics more efficiently and got result to stun the enemy, that's where our advantage lies and we must capitalize on it. Leaving our plans on heavy hitting like in 60's and 70's is not going to get us anywhere. Our first below must be completely invisible and decisive. Bring tangible forces afterwards ... And that's military domain alone. There are economic, social, diplomatic domains of war and post-war scenario if I touch upon that, this post will never end
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Hard to answer, as it is not clear who the adversary is? Full-Blow attack ... I don't think any country can counter that including US. After Chinese advancements in Quantum computing, the entire world is at their mercy. Lookheed Martin and some other strategic level entities were well aware of what Chinese were up to, so they moved to Quantum computing as well. Now Pakistan can leverage great support from China in this domain (i.e. Cyber defense / offense) and no one will be able to tell if China actively helped Pakistan. If US/India and many others are worried about growing strategic partnership between Islamabad and Beijing, it is not misplaced at all considering where it can lead Pakistan.