Pak Proxy War


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An Unscrupulous Intelligence Agency Like The Isi Which Has Been Waging A Proxy War Against India For Past Two Decades.... A State Like Pakistan Which Is In Search Of An Identity.... A Militia Like Taliban Which Is Created By These Two To Make Afghanistan The Fifth Province Of Pakistan.... And A Fanatic, Firebrand Muslim Like Osama Bin Laden Who Is Convinced That One Day In Afghanistan (Is) Like A Thousand Days Of Praying In An Ordinary Mosque . Kargil Was Inevitable In The Wake Of All This. It Happened. More Kargils Are Inevitable, Worldwide. Dagestan, Tatarstan, Bashkiria, Ingueshetia, North Ossetia (In Russia), Xinkiang (China), Kyrgyzhstan, Tajikistan, Ujbekistan, Turkmenistan.... The List Is Long. One Man Is Trying To Make It All Happen Bin Laden. One Powerful Secret Agency Is Hand-In-Glove With Him In All This The Isi. Pak Proxy War: A Story Of Isi, Bin Laden And Kargil Focuses On The Saudi Civil Engineer-Turned-Terrorist, Bin Laden, The Taliban And The Isi And How A Combination Of All These Factors Led To Pakistan Army S Intrusion In Kargil. The Book Calls For Taking A Pro-Active Rather Than A Reactive Approach To Pakistan S Threat Of More Kargils Be Paid Back In The Same Coin : More Bangladeshs . Contents Part I: Kargil Chapter 1: The Intrusion, Chapter 2: A Man Called Pervez Musharraf, Chapter 3: Operation Topac, Chapter 4: Making Of The Line Of Control. Part Ii: Pakistan: A Rogue State? Chapter 5: Pakistan Army, Chapter 6: Terrorist Training Camp In Afghanistan And Pakistan, Chapter 7: Markaz-Ud-Daawa-Wal-Irshad (Mdi), Chapter 8: Sipah-E-Sahiba Pakistan (Ssp). Part Iii: A State Within A State Chapter 9: Inter Services Intelligences (Isi), Chapter 10: Profile Of Some Pakistan-Backed Militant Outfits, Chapter 11: Lashkar-E-Tayyiba, Chapter 12: Tehrik-E-Jehad. Part Iv: Bin Laden And Taliban Chapter 13: Osama Bin Laden, Chapter 14: Taliban. Part V: Appendices Appendix 1: Diary Of A Pakistani Soldier, Appendix 2: Pakistan S Role In Fostering Terrorism In Kashmir: Facts And Figures, Appendix 3: Indo-Pak Military Balance, Appendix 4: Political And Constitutional Developments In J&K Since 1947.




Fighting to the End


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The Pakistan Army is poised for perpetual conflict with India which it cannot win militarily or politically. What explains Pakistan's persistent revisionism despite increasing costs and decreasing likelihood of success? This book argues that an understanding of the army's strategic culture explains its willingness to fight to the end




Proxy War


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Drawn into a conflict in a country far away from An Arath, our adventurers battle against humans in the service of evil. Strong allies are found… but will they remain victorious when deadlier supernatural enemies are discovered? Will victories on new battlefields prove decisive, or are the conflicts merely a distraction, hiding a greater plan? Discover a world ruled by sorceresses and join them in their struggle to make the world a better place. Who'll ultimately decide the fate of the world—and what will that future look like?




Pakistan's Proxy War


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This Book Presents An Incisive Analysis Of The Trends And Prospects Of Pakistan`S Proxy War And Its Wider Ramifications. Specific Recommendations Focus On The Pro-Active Military Measures That Are Necessary To Regain Control Over The Vitiated Security Situation And Restore Normalcy.




The Wrong Enemy


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A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” (Financial Times). Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right after 9/11, when US special forces helped the Northern Alliance drive the Taliban out of the north and then the south, fighting pitched battles and causing their enemies to flee underground and into Pakistan. Gall knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people—and just how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces. Combining searing personal accounts of battles and betrayals with moving portraits of the ordinary Afghans who were caught up in the conflict for more than a decade, The Wrong Enemy is a sweeping account of a war brought by American leaders against an enemy they barely understood and could not truly engage.




Proxy Wars


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The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has always been a central tool of foreign policy. Understanding how countries motivate local allies to act in sometimes costly ways, and when and how that strategy succeeds, is essential to effective foreign policy in today's world. In this splendid collection, Berman and Lake apply a variant of principal-agent theory in which the alignment of interests or objectives between a powerful state and a local proxy is central. Through analysis of nine detailed cases, Proxy Wars finds that: when principals use rewards and punishments tailored to the agent's domestic politics, proxies typically comply with their wishes; when the threat to the principal or the costs to the agent increase, the principal responds with higher-powered incentives and the proxy responds with greater effort; if interests diverge too much, the principal must either take direct action or admit that indirect control is unworkable. Covering events from Denmark under the Nazis to the Korean War to contemporary Afghanistan, and much in between, the chapters in Proxy Wars engage many disciplines and will suit classes taught in political science, economics, international relations, security studies, and much more.




Pakistan’s National Security Approach and Post-Cold War Security


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This book analyzes the paradox that despite being a national security state, Pakistan has become even more insecure in the post-Cold War era. It provides an in-depth analysis of Pakistan’s foreign and security policies and their implications for the overall state and society. The book identifies the immediate security challenges to Pakistan and charts the distinctive evolution of Pakistan’s national security state in which the military elite became the dominant actor in the political sphere of government during and after the Cold War period. By examining the national security state, militarization, democracy and security, proxy wars and the hyper-military-industrial complex, the author illustrates how the vanguard role of the military created considerable structural, sociopolitical, economic, and security problems in Pakistan. Furthermore, the author argues that the mismatch between Pakistan’s national security stance and the transformed security environment has been facilitated and sustained by the embedded interests of the country’s military-industrial complex. A critical evaluation of the role of the military in the political affairs of the government and how it has created structural problems for Pakistan, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of South Asian Politics and Security, South Asian Foreign and Security Policy, International Relations, Asian Security, and Cold War Studies.




India and Pakistan


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"Stanley Wolpert's new book, India and Pakistan, represents another major contribution to his analysis of the subcontinent. In this work, he provides a hopeful yet realistic solution to the tensions between these two neighbors." MICHAEL D. INTRILIGATOR, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Milken Institute --




War, Will, and Warlords


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Compares the reasons for and the responses to the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan since October 2001. Also examines the lack of security and the support of insurgent groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 1970s that explain the rise of the Pakistan-supported Taliban. Explores the border tribal areas between the two countries and how they influence regional stability and U.S. security. Explains the implications of what happened during this 10-year period to provide candid insights on the prospects and risks associated with bringing a durable stability to this area of the world.




Frontline Pakistan


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Veteran Pakistani journalist and commentator Zahid Hussain explores Pakistan's complex political power web and the consequences of Musharraf's decision to support America's drive against jihadism, which essentially took Pakistan to war with itself. Conducting exclusive interviews with key players and grassroots radicals, Hussain pinpoints the origin of the jihadi movement in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the long-standing and often denied links between militants and Pakistani authorities, the weaknesses of successive elected governments, and the challenges to Musharraf's authority posed by politico-religious, sectarian, and civil society elements within the country. The jihadi madrassas of Pakistan are incubators of the most feared terrorists in the world. Although the country's "war on terror" has so far been a stage show, a very real battle is looming, the outcome of which will have grave implications for the future security of the world.