C O N T E N T S

From the Desk of the Publisher and Managing Editor

Brigadier FHB INGALL

Disastrous Collision of PAF C-130 Aircraft
- Air Marshall AYAZ AHMED KHAN

An Insider Looking in from the Outside - The South Asian Region
- Col BRIAN CLOUGHLEY

A Review-Article "Our Defense Cause"
- AT CHAUDHRI

Politics and national Security
- Lt Gen (Retd) M ASAD DURRANI

The Poona Horse in the Battle of Buttur Dograndi September 1965
- ASHOK NATH

Cruise Missile Technology The "Tin God" that failed against the Holy Warrior of Afghanistan
- Col (Retd) EAS BOKHARI-

A Nuclear Armed Pakistan
- Lt Gen (Retd) SARDAR FS LODI

Combating Regional and Global Hegemony Need for Strategic Consensus
- Dr. SM RAHMAN     

Nuclearisation of South Asia: The Geopolitical Dimension
- Dr SHIREEN M MAZARI

Nuclear Non-Profileration
- Wing Comd (Retd) MUHAMMAD IRSHAD

Impacting Forces of Two Revolutions
- Gen (Reyd) MIRZA ASLAM BAIG

Pakistan's Growing Crisis in the Shadow of Afghanistan

Warrior without Weapons
- Col (Retd) EAS BOKHARI

The Way it Was
- Brig (Retd) ZA KHAN

No Last Throw of a Gambler
- Col (Retd) I HASSAN

The CIA's Secret War in Iraq
- Randy STEARNS

The Invisible Weapon
- EJ LONG

Osama Bin Laden: Wealth Plus Extremism Equals Terrorism

Pattern of Global Terrorism 1996

Strategic Significance of Pakistan
- RALPH BRAIBANTI

Pakistan's Surface to Surface Missile (SSM) Inventory - As of July 1998

Sanctions are Not the Answer
- HENRY KISSINGER