Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War

Pakistan’s army has dominated the state for most of its 67 years. It has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with India to revise the maps in Kashmir and to resist India’s slow but inevitable rise. To prosecute these dangerous policies, the army employs non-state actors under the security of its ever-expanding nuclear umbrella. Based on decades of the army's own defense publications, C. Christine Fair’s book, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War, argues that the Pakistan military is unlikely to shift its strategy and the world must prepare for an increasingly dangerous future with Pakistan. Carnegie’s Ashley J. Tellis served as the discussant, and Frederic Grare moderated. 

C. Christine Fair

C. Christine Fair is an assistant professor in the Security Studies Program within Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She previously served as a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, a political officer with the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan in Kabul, and a senior research associate at USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention. 

Ashley J. Tellis

Ashley J. Tellis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues.

Frederic Grare

Frederic Grare is senior associate and director of Carnegie’s South Asia Program. He works on India’s Look East policy, on Afghanistan and Pakistan’s regional policies, and on the tension between stability and democratization, including civil-military relations, in Pakistan.