Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War

by C Christine Fair

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Since Pakistan was founded in 1947, its army has dominated the state. The military establishment has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India, with the primary aim of wresting Kashmir from it. To that end, Pakistan initiated three wars over Kashmir-in 1947, 1965, and 1999-and failed to win any of them. Today, the army continues to prosecute this dangerous policy by employing non-state actors under the security of its ever-expanding nuclear umbrella. It
has sustained a proxy war in Kashmir since 1989 using Islamist militants, as well as supporting non-Islamist insurgencies throughout India and a country-wide Islamist...Read more
  • ISBN10 0190686162
  • ISBN13 9780190686161
  • Publish Date 5 April 2018 (first published 27 May 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 368
  • Language English