South Asian Geopolitics: Has Pakistan Lost its Plot?

Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War, by C. Christine Fair, New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 343, £27.99

Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War, by Myra MacDonald, London: Hurst & Co., 2017, pp. 328, £25.00‘

We can no longer be silent about Pakistan’s safe-havens for terrorist organizations, the Taliban, and other groups that pose a threat to the region and beyond,’ said US President Donald Trump, in the clearest criticism of Pakistan’s policy of using jihad as instrument of its security and foreign policy during his much-awaited review of the United States’ South Asia policy on 21 August 2017.1