Pakistan Army

Author : C. Christine Fair
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199892709
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting to the End written by C. Christine Fair and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pakistan Army is poised for perpetual conflict with India which it cannot win militarily or politically. What explains Pakistan's persistent revisionism despite increasing costs and decreasing likelihood of success? This book argues that an understanding of the army's strategic culture explains its willingness to fight to the end

Author : Carey Schofield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906447021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Pakistan Army written by Carey Schofield and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schofield spent five years with the Pakistan army, accompanying them on maneuvers and getting to know key figures from junior soldiers to Kayani himself. For five years, she travelled everywhere with them. They even had a uniform made for her. "Inside the Pakistan Army" is the truth about the army's vital role as an ally in the war.

Author : Brian Cloughley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781634505017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Pakistan Army written by Brian Cloughley and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of the Pakistan Army from an expert with on-the-ground experience. The army of Pakistan was formed in 1947 when Pakistan and India became independent of Britain. Since then, there have been three periods of army-led military rule in Pakistan, totaling thirty-five years, when democracy was crushed by a string of military dictators. Brian Cloughley knew two of the military dictators and writes of them with first-hand knowledge of their characters. He was personally acquainted with every Chief of Army Staff from 1980 to 2014. The army is not proud of the part it played in suppression of democracy, and although it acquitted itself honorably in wars against India, it displayed considerable brutality in suppressing separatists in the Eastern Wing of the country in the period before the 1971 war with India that resulted in the creation of Bangladesh. These excesses are described in this book, but there is general confidence that the army is now determined to support democracy and will continue to perform its critical mission of combating internal militancy as well as being prepared to defend the country's borders. A History of the Pakistan Army is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the nuanced and ongoing conflicts playing out in this volatile region.

Author : Aqil Shah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728939
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Army and Democracy written by Aqil Shah and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sharp contrast to neighboring India, the Muslim nation of Pakistan has been ruled by its military for over three decades. The Army and Democracy identifies steps for reforming Pakistan’s armed forces and reducing its interference in politics, and sees lessons for fragile democracies striving to bring the military under civilian control.

Author : Hassan Abbas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317463285
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pakistan's Drift into Extremism written by Hassan Abbas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan, particularly since 1947, and analyzes its connections to the Pakistani army's corporate interests and U.S.-Pakistan relations. It includes profiles of leading Pakistani militant groups with details of their origins, development, and capabilities. The author begins with an historical overview of the introduction of Islam to the Indian sub-continent in 712 AD, and brings the story up to the present by describing President Musharraf's handling of the war on terror. He provides a detailed account of the political developments in Pakistan since 1947 with a focus on the influence of religious and military forces. He also discusses regional politics, Pakistan's attempt to gain nuclear power status, and U.S.-Pakistan relations, and offers predictions for Pakistan's domestic and regional prospects.

Author : Shuja Nawaz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossed Swords written by Shuja Nawaz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 30 years of research and analysis, this definitive book is a profound, multi-layered, and historical analysis of the nature and role of the Pakistan army in the country's polity as well as its turbulent relationship with the United States. Shuja Nawaz examines the army and Pakistan in both peace and war. Using many hitherto unpublished materials from the archives of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the General Headquarters of the Pakistan Army, as well as interviews with key military and political figures in Pakistan and the United States, he sheds light not only on the Pakistan Army and its US connections but also on Pakistan as a key Muslim country in one of the world's toughest neighborhoods. In doing so, he lays bare key facts about Pakistan's numerous wars with India and its many rounds of political musical chairs, as well as the Kargil conflict of 1999. He then draws lessons from this history that may help Pakistan end its wars within and create a stabler political entity. Visit http://www.shujanawaz.com for more information about Shuja Nawaz.

Author : Husain Haqqani
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
ISBN 13 : 0870032852
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pakistan written by Husain Haqqani and published by Carnegie Endowment. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence with the United States and apprehending al Qaeda members has led to the assumption that Pakistan might be ready to give up its longstanding ties with radical Islam. But Pakistan's status as an Islamic ideological state is closely linked with the Pakistani elite's worldview and the praetorian ambitions of its military. This book analyzes the origins of the relationships between Islamist groups and Pakistan's military, and explores the nation's quest for identity and security. Tracing how the military has sought U.S. support by making itself useful for concerns of the moment—while continuing to strengthen the mosque-military alliance within Pakistan—Haqqani offers an alternative view of political developments since the country's independence in 1947.

Author : Brian Cloughley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Pakistan Army written by Brian Cloughley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author gives a candid, no-holds-barred account of the Pakistan army. He describes its evolution, its brutal suppression of the former East Wing (now Bangladesh), the events leading to the overthrow of Prime Minister Bhutto in 1977, and other dramatic episodes. This new edition contains an additional chapter which describes the dramatic resignation of the Army Chief in 1998 (giving his hitherto unpublished reasons), and the intrusion into Indian-administered territory in Kashmir by Pakistan-backed militants in 1999. The author makes use of information provided by senior foreign officials as well as highly-placed Indian and Pakistani sources.

Author : Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781786800114
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Inc written by Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the 'war on terror'. It is the third largest recipient of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army and intelligence service. Operating in the shadows, Pakistan's military industrial complex owns and controls swathes of the economic and political landscape of the country. Military Inc. dares to illuminate the military as an oppressive holding company possessing not just security-related businesses, but also hotels, shopping malls, insurance companies, banks, farms and even an airline. The result is a deeply undemocratic society, where money is funnelled towards the military's economic enterprises, leaving those in need of it impoverished and effectively disenfranchised. With an empirical richness, and a view to Pakistan's recent history, Ayesha Siddiqa offers a detailed and powerful case study of a global phenomenon: corruption, hollow economic growth and elitism. This new edition includes a chapter on the recent developments of the military's foray into the media, and a new preface.

Author : C. Christine Fair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199892717
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting to the End written by C. Christine Fair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 terror campaign that have brought the two countries to the brink of war on several occasions. In addition to these territorial revisionist goals, the Pakistani army has committed itself to resisting India's slow but inevitable rise on the global stage. Despite Pakistan's efforts to coerce India, it has achieved only modest successes at best. Even though India vivisected Pakistan in 1971, Pakistan continues to see itself as India's equal and demands the world do the same. The dangerous methods that the army uses to enforce this self-perception have brought international opprobrium upon Pakistan and its army. And in recent years, their erstwhile proxies have turned their guns on the Pakistani state itself. 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? In Fighting to the End, C. Christine Fair argues that the answer lies, at least partially, in the strategic culture of the army. Through an unprecedented analysis of decades' worth of the army's own defense publications, she concludes that from the army's distorted view of history, it is victorious as long as it can resist India's purported drive for regional hegemony as well as the territorial status quo. Simply put, acquiescence means defeat. Fighting to the End convincingly shows that because the army is unlikely to abandon these preferences, Pakistan will remain a destabilizing force in world politics for the foreseeable future.