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all I can add is , if the conventional military strength and gap becomes too overwhelming then this fact alone negates the nuclear deterrence.
Absolutely. The predicament becomes even more evident when we realize that most of modern conflicts today are based around 4th Generation Warfare. Adversaries have successfully used non-state actors and/or irregulars to dismantle countries without ever overtly placing boots on the ground. Syria, Yemen and Libya fell like a deck of cards within a matter of months. We bore its brunt for the first time in 71. It's effective enough to reduce and, in cases, even negate overwhelming conventional military superiority; history will never forget what the rag tag Afghans did to the Soviets and are doing to the US, the two most powerful militaries ever known to man. Ironically, for all the times the Soviets and the Americans came close to exchanging nuclear blows, not once was it due to the conflict which actually brought about the Soviets' end.
We've been in the thick of it again for the past two decades. No one has forgotten how, not too long ago, our ill-wishers were writing us off as well. Pakistan stands tall and at the cusp of victory today only because of our conventional military might coupled with an intelligent military strategy. Without either we would have fallen. All of our nukes did not and could not have helped us an iota in our war against this new-gen enemy.
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