Hybrid Warfare in Pakistan: How it’s Effecting CPEC

Abstract

This study explains the challenges linked with Hybrid Warfare that affect CPEC’s projects in Pakistan. This work also weighs the hybrid warfare implications on CPEC and the steps required to counter threats. In the existing literature, the definitions of fifth-generation warfare and hybrid warfare are overlapping. In simple terms, Hybrid warfare is a form of warfare that targets the enemy country by targeting its culture, social fabric, and economy. Hybrid warfare is a post-9/11 phenomenon that becoming lethal day by day. This study only focuses on Military analysts, and researchers’ analysis that how India had used hybrid war tactics to “destabilize Pakistan” regarding CPEC. This paper aims to study the various facets of 5th Generation Warfare and hybrid warfare regarding CPEC in its contemporary context. This too will analyze what can be done to combat the challenges that lay ahead to sabotage CPEC.