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Afghanistan - A Strategic Analysis
The present war in Afghanistan has many dimensions, many shades and many players, known as well as hidden. Most of the analysis fail to assess this subtle war and thus arrive at conclusions which are superficial.Salient aspects of this war are as following: - A Proxy War - A combination of State and non State Actors - Known and hidden actors - A case of hunting with the hounds and running with the foxes - Ethnic Factors - The Great Myth of 80,000 Troops - A case of large spaces and insufficient force ratios - A case of inconclusive civil war - A case of Long Term US Strategic Interests and its clash with regional actors - A case of an undeclared Indo Pak War being fought in Afghanistan. - US-Pakistan relationship is complex. - Pakistan at cross roads of choice of direction. We will discuss the above listed aspects in the succeeding paragraphs.
Posted by: john frum 2008-02-05 |
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