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The Jaws of Victory: 2001–2008

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America, Pakistan, and the India Factor

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In the period from 2001 until 2008 American (United States) strategy included a reengagement with Pakistan and then containment, while anti-American Pakistani frontline organizations, the Haqqani network, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Pakistan Taliban, and Hakimullah Mehsud of the Mehsud tribe South Waziristan, Maulana Faqir Muhammad of Bajaur, and Maulana Qazi Fazlullah of the TNSM and others were attacking American forces in Afghanistan. The decentralized asymmetric power of the frontline terrorist organizations along with their jihadist goals, suicide deaths, and assured rewards in heaven are almost invincible, even in the face of the formidable American power. America’s relationship with Pakistan was strong in the late fifties and early sixties with Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon when Pakistan joined CENTO and NATO to fight against Communists, despite Pakistan’s alliance with Communist China, when the Communists were confronting the West. During the 1971 India-Pakistan war Nixon ordered Jordan and Iran to send arms to Pakistan, including American arms, even though this would violate the American ban from the 1965 war. The second solid relationship (1979–1989) was strengthened when President Reagan provided enormous funds to build the mujahideen army around the Muslim world to fight against the Soviets when they invaded Afghanistan.

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Mohanty, N. (2013). The Jaws of Victory: 2001–2008. In: America, Pakistan, and the India Factor. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137323873_5

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