Pakistani Military has "lost the will to fight" in Northwest Pakistan Posted by Max Bergmann

Arthur Keller, a retired CIA officer, has a worrisome oped in the New York Times today. He argues that the Pakistani military has all but given up in its efforts to uproot the Taliban and Al Qaeda from the tribal regions of Pakistan. The few actions that are taken involve ineffectual attacks from helicopter gunships or artillery bombardments - amounting to little more than window dressing to appease the Americans.

The truth is that the soldiers have lost the will to fight. Reports in the Indian press, based on information from the very competent Indian intelligence agencies, describe a Pakistani Army in disarray in the tribal areas. Troops are deserting and often refusing to fight their “Muslim brothers.”

Nothing illustrated this apathy more clearly than the capture of hundreds of troops in August by the Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud with nary a shot fired in resistance.

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