Dr. Lawrence Sellin on the big picture of South Asia

 Dr. Sellin bio:  http://gsbs.rutgers.edu/alumni/sellin2006.html

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Sellin on Pakistan-China grab of Afghanistan  https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/23/incompetence-dc-defeat-afghanistan/

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9-18-21  Sellin on Afghanistan, video  https://m.facebook.com/WIONews/videos/retired-us-army-colonel-lawrence-sellin-speaks-to-wion/750615512443426/

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  American military leaders consistently violated the most fundamental of strategic principles, ones taught at every U.S. war college, know your enemy and do not mistake a war for something that is alien to its nature.

The war in Afghanistan is not an insurgency.  It is a proxy war being waged by Pakistan against the U.S. and Afghanistan.

  Both the Pentagon and multiple U.S. political administrations have known from nearly the beginning of the conflict that an American victory in landlocked Afghanistan was impossible as long as Pakistan regulated the operational tempo by providing safe haven and support to its Taliban proxies and controlled the supply of our troops, critical factors which have never been adequately addressed.

  Over nearly the entire course of the conflict the U.S. supplied Pakistan with generous aid packages to bribe them from pursuing a course of action opposed to our own, but one Pakistan considered in its national interest.  In essence our leaders, through a combination of incompetence and indifference, allowed the United States to be defeated by Pakistan and paid them to do it.

  Shortly before his death in 2015 Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s ISI, a committed Islamist and known as the “godfather of the Taliban,” said in an Urdu language television interview:

"One day history will say that the ISI drove the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan with the help of USA and another sentence will be recorded that says the ISI drove the USA out of Afghanistan with the help of the USA."     https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2019/06/26/opinion-americas-one-big-mistake-in-afghanistan-fighting-the-wrong-war/

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