{"product_id":"defeat-is-an-orphan-myra-macdonald-9780143455592","title":"Defeat Is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet, in the years that followed, Pakistan went on to lose decisively to India. It lost any ability to stake a serious claim to Kashmir, a region it called its jugular vein. Its ability to influence events in Afghanistan diminished. While India's growing economy won it recognition as a rising world power, Pakistan became known as a failing state. Pakistan had lost to India before but the setbacks since 1998 made this defeat irreversible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eDefeat Is an Orphan \u003c\/i\u003efollows the roller-coaster ride through post-nuclear India-Pakistan, from bitter conflict in the mountains to military confrontation in the plains, from the hijacking of an Indian plane to the assault on Mumbai. Nuclear weapons proved to be Pakistan's undoing. They encouraged a reckless reliance on militant proxies even as the jihadis spun out of control outside and inside Pakistan. By shielding it from retaliation, the nuclear weapons also sealed it into its own dysfunction-so much so that the Great South Asian War, fought on-and-off since 1947, was not so much won by India as lost by Pakistan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Myra MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143455591\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143455592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e India Penguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Myra MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044279382271,"sku":"9780143455592","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36498c60-a658-4cee-b262-b66c7c8f9962.jpg?v=1684971936","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/defeat-is-an-orphan-myra-macdonald-9780143455592","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}