The social uplift plans are commendable indeed.
However, this slide:
is particularly important. After all, after decades of hard work, the Army has successfully eliminated any other organization within Pakistan that could effectively compete with it providing such services and now holds the monopoly positions to its immense advantage.
Nice strategy.
You are dumber than i have thought:
As you can see, approx 3-4 billion dollars have been spent by the govt in FATA since Independence, but you can see where it stands today. FCR is still there and the development too has stalled.
But that is not the concern here, i added this slide deliberately so that readers can understand that COIN doesn't necessarily means killing the terrorists but it also includes de-radicalization and rebuilding the infrastructure.
If you had paid some attention you would have known that David Galula was not a Pakistani. Moreover, as i have tried explaining you in the past also that during active operations civilians or other govt agencies cannot built or carryout their routine operations, and thus militarys are required to do the job other than/in addition to fighting.
That's a compulsion for today's armies, especially those engaged in COIN ops - it is not a choice.
And hence the quote from Mr David Galula (
David Galula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) a French expert of 'revolutionary war' or in simpler words COIN ops. Writer of two books:
Pacification in Algeria, published by the RAND Corporation in 1963, and Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice in 1964. The books analyse his experiences in Indochina, Greece and Algeria.
If you had any idea of military doctrines of today, you would have known that terms like 'Stability Operations' and 'Peace Keeping Operations' are the 'new' war which demands a soldier to be a fighter and at the same time to be a humanitarian.
That's not what i say, but that's what your beloved western/US masters have said and practiced, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have just taken the lead from them.
Ever heard of MOOTW..??
Slide number 2 was also added with a reason so that people with brains can understand the complete strategy. The "Clear, Hold,
Build and Transfer" strategy in FATA and Swat is not something conceived by a Pakistani general but taken from the field manuals written by your beloved Americans after the Vietnam war.
So, the
'building' stage is also to be undertaken by the military itself, anywhere whenever ANY army has to carryout COIN ops. That's the part and parcel of the approach: the Hard Prong (military action) and the Soft Prong (Development, Radicalization etc). But then i forgot, you have sucked on too much beef lately.
