Time to Look at the Bigger Picture - A South Asian Strategy

A Research Fellow for the South Asia and the Near East at the Center for Strategic Research, Thomas F. Lynch, has wrote an online article for the AFPAK Channel (Foreign Policy) about the war in Afghanistan and South Asia in general.  He suggests that, with the strategic defeat of bin Laden's al-Qaeda, it is time to shift focus and look at the larger picture - the strategic politics of South Asia - specifically the Pakistan India conflict.  He states that Pakistan's big fear is that a resurgent pro-India Afghanistan regime with a strong ANSF will trap Pakistan between two adversaries.  He believes that a resolution of the Pakistan India conflict will result in a weaker Taliban (less Pakistan support and lack of sanctuaries).  Read his article entitled "The 80 percent solution", The AFPAK Channel on Foreign Policy, February 8, 2012.  His paper (30-pages long) on this same topic and also called "The 80 Percent Solution" is available here on the New America Foundation website (dated February 2012).