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...equipped to deal with an insurgency. "For 60 years, the Pakistani army has prepared to fight the Battle of El Alamein against India on the dusty plains of Punjab," says Riedel. "It's never really thought about how to deal with enemies within its borders." Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, its long-range missiles, fighter jets and tanks are for the most part useless against internal enemies...
Disturbingly, the one area in which the U.S. has absolutely no influence is the security of Pakistan's nukes. The military won't let the U.S. anywhere near the arsenal. So the only way to avoid the nightmare of nuclear weapons in the hands of extremists is to trust in the Pakistani military's safeguards--and pray that Zardari and Kayani get serious about eliminating the extremists...
...lost the political battle - its pummeling of Gaza and the heavy Palestinian death toll has offended many former supporters, leaving Hamas' political position strengthened. But in battle, Israel clearly held the upper hand. During the conflict, very few of Hamas' 15,000 fighters appeared, and neither did its feared arsenal of Iranian-supplied weapons. (See pictures of Gaza digging...
...Military officers have also expressed concern over relying on the aging atomic arsenal. (Skeptics note that U.S. policy tends to embrace the notion that all nuclear weapons possessed by adversaries will work, while those possessed by the U.S. won't.) "The path of inaction is a path leading toward nuclear disarmament," Air Force General Kevin Chilton, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, warned last month. "The time...
...border region to the Indian border. The U.S. envoy's biggest challenge may lie in convincing the Pakistani military that its larger and better-equipped Indian rival represents no threat. It is to counteract India's conventional military superiority that Pakistan has developed unconventional capabilities, from its nuclear weapons arsenal to its covert arming and training of Islamist insurgents to fight India in Kashmir. Despite efforts of Pakistan's civilian government to retire those tactics and promote peace talks with India, critics say some elements within the Pakistani military have not relinquished their proxy warfare capability - and they are maintaining...