Original upload date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:14:04 GMT
C. Christine Fair discusses findings from her recent book, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War.
Pakistan's army has dominated the state for most of its 66 years. It has locked the cou
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ntry in an enduring rivalry with India to revise the maps in Kashmir and to resist India's slow but inevitable rise. To prosecute these dangerous policies, the army employs non-state actors under the security of its ever-expanding nuclear umbrella. From the army's distorted view of history, the army is victorious as long as can resist India's purported hegemony and the territorial status quo. To acquiesce is defeat. Because the army is unlikely to abandon these preferences, the world must prepare for an ever more dangerous future Pakistan.
