Christine Fair Explains the Pakistan Army's Way of War

[raj76]

i know its long but its really informative and very near to truth

 

[Bossman]

Don't post "have beens and wanna bes"

 

[zebra7]

Pakistan's army has dominated the state for most of its 66 years. It has locked the country 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. The Pakistan army started three wars with India over Kashmir in 1947, 1965, and 1999 and failed to win any of them. It has sustained a proxy war in Kashmir since 1989 using Islamist militants, some of whom have now turned their guns against the Pakistani state. The Pakistan army has supported non-Islamist insurgencies throughout India as well as a country-wide Islamist terror campaign that have brought the two countries to the brink of war on several occasions. Despite Pakistan's efforts to coerce India, it has only achieved modest successes. Even though India vivisected Pakistan in 1971, Pakistan continues to see itself as India's equal and demands the world do the same. The tools that the army prefers to use, non-state actors under a nuclear umbrella, has brought international opprobrium upon the country and the army. In recent years, erstwhile proxies have turned their gun on the Pakistani state itself and its peoples. Why does the army persist in pursuing these revisionist policies that have come to imperil the very viability of the state itself, from which the army feeds? This volume argues that the answer lies, at least partially, in the strategic culture of the army. 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.

 

[posedion]

A man who has enmity with 33 crore angels throwing stones on his head can still find a cave to save himself a man who throws a stone to the air himself gives head and thinks Allah will catch it for him as he a devoted has none in the universe to save him

such is the case with our neighbor

laga raho miya

 

[Zarvan]

i know its long but its really informative and very near to truth

Very near to bullshi# nothing more than that. Full of western propaganda

 

[zebra7]

Very near to bullshi# nothing more than that. Full of western propaganda

How it is B.S. -- State facts

 

[airmarshal]

She is never positive in her comments about Pakistan army. I thought she was a good critique but she is always negative. So stopped reading her or following her.

 

[Sri]

She is never positive in her comments about Pakistan army. I thought she was a good critique but she is always negative. So stopped reading her or following her.

There is nice video from her where she is explaining the current situation (Pak Army fighting till the end) hosted and endorsed by Haqqani. I believe this gives legitimacy to her analysis

 

[Levina]

i know its long but its really informative and very near to truth

She's one of my favs, I have watched many of her interviews and follow her on twitter.
She's brusque when asked anything about Pakistan, in her book "fighting to the end" she says that US needs to handle Pakistan aggressively as an adversary and not as a problematic ally.
But I doubt she has her hidden motives for making such statements.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Christine Fair seems to be the new generation of Western academics on Pakistan.

Previous ones being Ahmed Rashid and Tariq Ali, whose opinions are no longer heard.

 

[firestorm77]

https://twitter.com/x/status/661990041850404869

 

[General General]

Her stint in Afghanistan ended as the Western involvement drew down. Initially I found her articles to be balanced and more importantly; based on facts.
However, as she found less and less work reporting and analysing in the country, she has turned to more opinionated rhetoric. A far cry from genuine journalism. All, her current writings sing the same tune like a broken record. A little sad really as she used to be a fairly good analyser or facts and developments.

 

[Kambojaric]

Fair, Ah yes, a member of the new generation of western "experts" on Pakistan, who thrive on the nations negative image by writing bs that they know will sell to their scared islamophobic audience.