After nine years of the current phase of war and conflict in Afghanistan that began in the wake of 9/11 terrorist attacks there seems to be no solution in sight. This book's first section examines Pakistan's role in Afghanistan and postulates that there has been no fundamental change in Pakistan's role in respect to Afghanistan since last six decades. The second section looks at the dominant drivers of the current situation and gazes in the future to arrive at possible scenarios based on the trends. Unfolding and implementation of the Af-Pak strategy of Obama administration is the key driver of the likely future scenarios.



Author Bio: Brig Vinod Anand (Retd) is a postgraduate in Defence and Strategic studies and is an alumnus of Defence Services Staff College and College of Defence Management. He authored a monograph Joint Vision for Indian Armed Forces while he was a Senior Fellow at Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi. He is also co-author of the book Defence Planning in India:Problems and Prospects and also has written a monograph on Strategic Environment in Central Asia and India (John Hopkins University, Washington 2009). Presently he is a senior fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies and Simulation, United Service Institution of India, New Delhi and visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus, New Delhi. Besides writing on a wide variety of strategic issues he writes on Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Information Warfare, Joint Operations and Perception Management. His papers and research articles have been published in Indian and Foreign Journals and Newspapers.