Pakistan covertly supported a number of militant outfits in the Kashmir conflict throughout the 1... more Pakistan covertly supported a number of militant outfits in the Kashmir conflict throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Some of them stayed loyal to Pakistan, while others turned against their sponsor. This paper asks why two prominent and most similar miliant movements, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, adopted different behavior toward Pakistan. Whereas Jaish turned its guns against the Pakistani government and military, Lashkar remained loyal to its supporter. The paper argues that the explanation rests with different command and control structures of the two outfits.
Conflict scholars usually ignore the relationship between external governments and rebel groups. ... more Conflict scholars usually ignore the relationship between external governments and rebel groups. Interventionist governments are regarded as peripheral to civil war dynamics and uninterested in strategies, goals and tactics of domestic armed groups. This draft challenges these assumption by bringing up the puzzle of ungrateful proxies. Sponsored rebel groups are often defiant toward, collaborate with enemies or turn against their external beneficiaries. The paper asks why and under what conditions these instances occur and provides.
Pakistan covertly supported a number of militant outfits in the Kashmir conflict throughout the 1... more Pakistan covertly supported a number of militant outfits in the Kashmir conflict throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. Some of them stayed loyal to Pakistan, while others turned against their sponsor. This paper asks why two prominent and most similar miliant movements, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, adopted different behavior toward Pakistan. Whereas Jaish turned its guns against the Pakistani government and military, Lashkar remained loyal to its supporter. The paper argues that the explanation rests with different command and control structures of the two outfits.
Conflict scholars usually ignore the relationship between external governments and rebel groups. ... more Conflict scholars usually ignore the relationship between external governments and rebel groups. Interventionist governments are regarded as peripheral to civil war dynamics and uninterested in strategies, goals and tactics of domestic armed groups. This draft challenges these assumption by bringing up the puzzle of ungrateful proxies. Sponsored rebel groups are often defiant toward, collaborate with enemies or turn against their external beneficiaries. The paper asks why and under what conditions these instances occur and provides.
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