New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- Dissuasion, Compellence and Deterrence are a nation's subsets of its overall military strategy, be it for war- avoidance or strategic coercion before operations are physically launched. Understanding the nuances of these principles during the 1971 operations and extrapolating them now to our current challenges will be a useful exercise. It is pertinent to note that with the march of time and advent of additional technologies and increase in the domains of warfare, these subsets also do undergo change. Space capabilities, hypersonic weapons, cyber threats, artificial intelligence and indeed hybrid or Grey Zone warfare play an important transformational role in the complexities of these doctrines. Briefly, dissuasion is ...