Namrata Goswami replies: The term strategic in international politics embodies interest based priorities, which has short, medium and long-term implications for a country. Strategic could include a region (geopolitics) which embodies the connection of power to geography, and the means to forward a particular interest of a country. Strategic could also embody issues which either forwards or threatens the national security of a state, for instance, dispute over water, terrorism, environmental issues, cyber attacks, energy crisis, etc.
Pakistan’s Dangerous Game of Brinkmanship
The recent heavy firing by the Pakistani army is to gain public sympathy and providing it greater flexibility in the flawed civil-military relations. It is an orchestrated plan to provoke India believing that it can take such a risk of escalation in the back drop of its effective nuclear capability.