{"id":11165,"date":"2018-04-26T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11165"},"modified":"2018-04-26T11:23:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T18:23:49","slug":"strategika-issue-50-pakistans-partnership-with-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-50-pakistans-partnership-with-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue 50: Pakistan&#8217;s Partnership with the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United States and Pakistan: Frenemies on the Brink<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Peter R. Mansoor in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For much of its short seventy-year history, Pakistan has managed to thoroughly mismanage its strategic relationships with great power patrons, regional competitors, and non-state clients. It has waged and lost four wars with a larger and more powerful India, supported terrorist organizations that have destabilized Afghanistan and conducted deadly attacks in neighboring India, and alienated its long-time American ally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/united-states-and-pakistan-frenemies-brink\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan: Murderous Ally, Patient Enemy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Ralph Peters in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s military and intelligence leadership\u2014the country\u2019s decisive elements\u2014view the United States as a danger to be managed and a resource to be exploited. Its approach to bilateral relations is predicated on three things: The (correct) belief that U.S. interlocutors do not understand the region; the conviction that, eventually, the U.S. will leave Afghanistan; and Pakistan\u2019s need for hegemony over Afghanistan\u2014not only to check India\u2019s strategic moves but, more importantly, to guarantee Pakistan\u2019s internal cohesion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/pakistan-murderous-ally-patient-ally\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan: Neither Ally, Nor Enemy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Bing West in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last April, Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill, a distinguished diplomat,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-news-india\/bewildered-by-us-policy-on-pak-oppose-sale-of-f16s-robert-blackwill\/\">summarized American policy toward Pakistan<\/a>. \u201cEvery time a new administration in Washington comes to office,\u201d he said, \u201cthey get worried about Pakistan, which has a stockpile of nuclear weapons. The US Secretary of State then visits Pakistan and meets the top leadership. He is systematically lied to by Pakistan\u2019s leadership, and this goes on for about two years. In the third year, he tells his colleagues at the (US) State Department that Pakistan\u2019s leaders have been lying to him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/pakistan-neither-ally-nor-enemy\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and Pakistan: Frenemies on the Brink Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Peter R. Mansoor in Strategika. For much of its short seventy-year history, Pakistan has managed to thoroughly mismanage its strategic relationships with great power patrons, regional competitors, and non-state clients. It has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2U5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11120,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-49-the-value-of-economic-sanctions\/","url_meta":{"origin":11165,"position":0},"title":"Strategika Issue 49: The Value of Economic Sanctions","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Sanctions: The Record And The Rewards Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Josef Joffe in Strategika Why are sanctions so popular? 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