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Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanista
Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan By: Ahmed Rashid
Pakistan is a very certain focus of this third part of the trilogy, because it is impossible to discuss Afghanistan without extensive excursions into the history of Pakistan. The focus of Rashid's two other books, "Taliban" and "Descent into Chaos" was Afghanistan focus. It was made clear in both books that the ISI, Pakistan's all-powerful intelligence service, had allowed the Afghan Taliban safe havens in Pakistan to which it could retreat after it was ousted in 2001,where it could regroup, and from where it could stage its increasingly successful comeback from 2003 till today. At least a third of the book is more of a continuation of Rashid's earlier books on Afghanistan than it is an analysis of what is wrong with Pakistan.
For me I think every leader going to Afghanistan should read all 3 these books. Great history, dialogue in subject in all 3 of these books.
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"Berg Heil"
History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over."
COLONEL BULL SIMONS
Intelligence failures are failures of command [just] as operations failures are command failures.”
Last edited by MtnGoat; 09-06-2012 at 16:06.
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