South Asian Geopolitics: Has Pakistan Lost its Plot?

Abhay Kumar Singh
Cmde. Abhay Singh is a Research Fellow at the Military Affairs Centre in the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. He is an Indian Navy veteran… Continue reading South Asian Geopolitics: Has Pakistan Lost its Plot? read more
Volume:11
Issue:4
Review Essay

Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War, by C. Christine Fair, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 343, £27.99

Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War, by Myra MacDonald, London: Hurst & Co., 2017, pp. 328, £25.00‘

We can no longer be silent about Pakistan’s safe-havens for terrorist organizations, the Taliban, and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond,’ said US President Donald Trump, in the clearest criticism of Pakistan’s policy of using jihad as instrument of its security and foreign policy during his much-awaited review of the United States’ South Asia policy on 21 August 2017.1

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