The Battle for Pakistan
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The Battle for Pakistan

The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood

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eBook - ePub

The Battle for Pakistan

The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighbourhood

About this book

The Battle for Pakistan showcases a marriage of convenience between unequal partners. The relationship between Pakistan and the United States since the early 1950s has been nothing less than a whiplash-inducing rollercoaster ride. Today, surrounded by hostile neighbors, with Afghanistan increasingly under Indian influence, Pakistan does not wish to break ties with the United States. Nor does it want to become a vassal of China and get caught in the vice of a US-China rivalry, or in the Arab-Iran conflict.

Internally, massive economic and demographic challenges as well as the existential threat of armed militancy pose huge obstacles to Pakistan's development and growth. Could its short-run political miscalculations in the Obama years prove too costly? Can the erratic Trump administration help salvage this relationship?

Based on detailed interviews with key US and South Asian leaders, access to secret documents and operations, and the author's personal relationships and deep knowledge of the region, this book untangles the complex web of the US-Pakistani relationship and identifies a clear path forward, showing how the United States can build better partnerships in troubled corners of the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Important Milestones 2007–19
  2. Abbreviations and Acronyms
  3. Author’s Note
  4. Preface: Salvaging a Misalliance
  5. 1. The Revenge of Democracy?
  6. 2. Friends or Frenemies?
  7. 3. 2011: A Most Horrible Year!
  8. 4. From Tora Bora to Pathan Gali
  9. 5. Internal Battles
  10. 6. Salala: Anatomy of a Failed Alliance
  11. 7. Mismanaging the Civil–Military Relationship
  12. 8. US Aid: Leverage or a Trap?
  13. 9. Mil-to-Mil Relations: Do More
  14. 10. Standing in the Right Corner
  15. 11. Transforming the Pakistan Army
  16. 12. Pakistan’s Military Dilemma
  17. 13. Choices
  18. Epilogue
  19. Select Bibliography
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. About the Author