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Alternative Hard COIN Strategies for Pakistan

Abstract This article examines the use of the alternative COIN strategies for Pakistan, which lie in the gray area between counterinsurgency and special ops. Undeniably they have been used against the insurgents in the past, sometimes injudiciously and without regard to long-term adverse effects and implications. The author examines the three modalities of divide and rule, crowning one warlord, and leadership decapitation, suggesting that the conceptual utilities of such modalities may be self-explanatory in an insurgency like Pakistan's fight against the Taliban. Moreover, the author examines the shortcomings of such tactics specifically, laying out actual examples under an overarching analytical framework and deducing the implications for security in the region.