TY  - BOOK
AU  - AKHTAR Shahzad
TI  - Decline of insurgency in Pakistan's FATA : : a counterinsurgency perspectives
PY  - 2019///
KW  - PAKISTAN
KW  -  COUNTERINSURGENCY
N2  - This paper argues that Pakistan's counterinsurgency campaign after 2009 caused the decline of the Taliban insurgency by targeting the TTP through a true counterinsurgency operation.  Pakistani military elites had a clear understanding that the military forces lacked counterinsurgency skills which explained their poor and inefficient performance
ER  -