South Asia's zero-sum war

Regarding the Mumbai attacks, MacDonald tells us that the CIA turned a 'blind eye' to the LeT's role

DEFEAT IS AN ORPHAN

How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War

Myra MacDonald

Hurst & Co, London, 2017

313 pages; Rs 599

The author, Myra MacDonald, who served in India as a Reuters correspondent from 2000, has written extensively on South Asian affairs. This book follows one she has written on the Indo-Pak conflict over the Siachen glacier.

This book is a good account of the numerous assaults that Pakistan has mounted on the Indian state, starting with the Kashmir infiltrations in 1947 and culminating with the most recent attacks in Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Uri, with the last one leading to the “surgical”