Recently, US President Barack Obama unveiled a new National Security Strategy. The document was hailed by many as a definitive — and welcome — departure from his predecessor’s approach towards security and foreign policy, and then promptly pushed out of the headlines.
Indeed, Obama’s outline of strategic goals in Afghanistan and Pakistan was widely dismissed as ‘same old, same old’. But certain aspects of the security document pertaining to Pakistan deviate significantly from previous thinking, and bear closer scrutiny by our government.
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