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April 2025

Peace Gaming India-Pakistan Standoff
Since both India and Pakistan are busy "War Gaming", let me try to do the exact opposite: "Peace Gaming" on India-Pakistan Standoff.
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Hussain Nadim
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India-Pakistan Escalation: A Game Theory Analysis
As someone who has worked in senior national security policy roles I've never seen a bigger crisis brewing between India and Pakistan.
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Hussain Nadim
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Is A Great War Inevitable?
War may be an accident, but great war is an alignment; and I feel all macro and micro trends have aligned to create a rupture.
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Hussain Nadim
Building AI like Plants
Very soon, if not already, there are going to be more AI products than humans can use or sustain; so who will be building and using AI products, and for…
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Hussain Nadim
US Returns to Pakistan: What Now?
Here is what is happening on the US-Pakistan front and my policy suggestions:
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Hussain Nadim
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Auditing US "CT" Policy
This past week, I was invited as a guest speaker to brief the US Congressional staffers on US Counterterrorism policy and where Pakistan fits into it.
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Hussain Nadim
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March 2025

Pakistan's 3 Pillars of Power
For at least the last decade, I have argued—both within the system and at every forum outside it—that the rules of the game and the calculus of power in…
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Hussain Nadim
The Quantum State of Pakistan
The question isn't whether Pakistan is going to crash; it already has, by every metric.
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Hussain Nadim
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War by Bob Woodward - Book Review
This is the third book by Bob Woodward that I have read over the last decade, and slicing through the pages made me realise just how much I have changed…
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Hussain Nadim
A Critique against "Counterterrorism"
"Counterterrorism" as a concept is a colonial construct designed to put down freedom movements in the faraway colonies by labelling them as 'terrorist…
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Hussain Nadim
The Empire Returns
Europe’s Desperate Return to Empire
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Hussain Nadim
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