Abstract
This paper develops a hybridised theoretical framework, termed "Entangled Deterrence," to examine how dual-use emerging technologies are systematically undermining strategic stability across the Southern Asian security complex. Focusing on India's evolving posture within a tripolar nuclear environment involving China and Pakistan, the paper argues that artificial intelligence-enabled command and control, offensive cyber capabilities, and dual-use space-based sensing infrastructures interact to produce two structurally destabilising effects: decision compression, wherein the time available for deliberate crisis management shrinks to algorithmically determined windows; and C3I entanglement, wherein conventional and nuclear command architectures become indistinguishable to an adversary.
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