x-posted based on discussion with Acharya
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One thing to consider is that IROT was declared as a 'failing state' first in 1996 by a CFR report written by Geoffry Kemp, Robert Oakley, Teresita Schaffer et al. Since then a whole bunch of literature was produced saying that IROT is failing. Yes IROT was behaving as a 'failing state'. By every measure of good governance it was underperforming (being charitable) but Western intervention has prevented its collapse and brought about a consolidation of the ruling Punjabi TAP (Turo-Afghan-Persian) elite through the military in particular the Army.
Reams have been written about how the Army is an institution and that the model to compare is it is the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire which militarized the Roman state . Look up google for Praetorian state and Pakistan. But there is an alternate explanation.
I think that the Punjabi-TAP(PTAP) elite is like the 19th Century Prussian Junger class and that the TSP Military is only a vehicle for its dominance. The West Punjab core nation is to IROT as the Prussian core nation was to the German Bismarckian State. In other words its not just the Army but the whole PTAP elite that is the problem.
It is possible to examine the political behavior of the PTAP elite thru the prism of the Prussian class-> homogenous class under imagined threat->espousing Nazism. Subsititue the threats of the German class with those imagined by the PTAP and you have 'enmo Hitlerian' totalitarian regime and throw in Islamic concepts of religious superiority and you have the Islamofascist state that we see today threaening the world stability thorugh its terror.
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One thing to consider is that IROT was declared as a 'failing state' first in 1996 by a CFR report written by Geoffry Kemp, Robert Oakley, Teresita Schaffer et al. Since then a whole bunch of literature was produced saying that IROT is failing. Yes IROT was behaving as a 'failing state'. By every measure of good governance it was underperforming (being charitable) but Western intervention has prevented its collapse and brought about a consolidation of the ruling Punjabi TAP (Turo-Afghan-Persian) elite through the military in particular the Army.
Reams have been written about how the Army is an institution and that the model to compare is it is the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire which militarized the Roman state . Look up google for Praetorian state and Pakistan. But there is an alternate explanation.
I think that the Punjabi-TAP(PTAP) elite is like the 19th Century Prussian Junger class and that the TSP Military is only a vehicle for its dominance. The West Punjab core nation is to IROT as the Prussian core nation was to the German Bismarckian State. In other words its not just the Army but the whole PTAP elite that is the problem.
It is possible to examine the political behavior of the PTAP elite thru the prism of the Prussian class-> homogenous class under imagined threat->espousing Nazism. Subsititue the threats of the German class with those imagined by the PTAP and you have 'enmo Hitlerian' totalitarian regime and throw in Islamic concepts of religious superiority and you have the Islamofascist state that we see today threaening the world stability thorugh its terror.
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