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- - - - "What this means is that Pakistan's regional security concerns transcend the global strategy of fighting and defeating militancy which causes Pakistani foreign policy architects to maintain alliances with militant groups for their own strategic purposes" (Siddiqi, 199) A modern take on Thucydides theory
    - - "Military defense is based on the idea of deterring aggression, staying operationally ready, and the ability to meet all kinds of challenges including non-conventional threats such as terrorist bombings, hijackings, and chemical, biological, and radiological attacks" (Siddiqi, 196).
        The idea is to always be ready for war due to threats being inevitable and something that a state should always prepare for
        
        "For Morgenthau, just as for Thucydides and Hobbes, international politics is best characterized as a struggle for power. In this context, both military and economic power matter. Economic power can be used for coercion, in and of itself, and can also be translated into military power, if needed. Both types of power are therefore sought by states in order to protect themselves" (M-EM, 72).
    - - "In his most famous treatise, Leviathan, Hobbes argued that the only cure for perpetual war that was likely to result was the emergence of a single powerful “leviathan”—a sovereign individual/government that could oversee and enforce rules on the people" (M-EM, 71).