Pakistan in the Pamir Knot: Geostrategic Imperatives |
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... British Indian boundanes , and were , infact in favour of a buffer zone between the two empires . Since the 1830s . British Forward Moves had vacillated between two extreme policies and ended up by adopting neither to annex the Afghan ...
... British Indian boundanes , and were , infact in favour of a buffer zone between the two empires . Since the 1830s . British Forward Moves had vacillated between two extreme policies and ended up by adopting neither to annex the Afghan ...
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... British surveyors and their aim to segregate India from Russian Asia by a stretch of Afghan territory and the supposedly impregnable mountainous barrier in the north , were in a shambles . The British strategy was confronted not only ...
... British surveyors and their aim to segregate India from Russian Asia by a stretch of Afghan territory and the supposedly impregnable mountainous barrier in the north , were in a shambles . The British strategy was confronted not only ...
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... British theory of using arid geography to keep the Russian bear at bay . This too meant that while a British force would reach the passes of Hindu Kush after sur- mounting immense difficulties , a Tsarist force would merely have to take ...
... British theory of using arid geography to keep the Russian bear at bay . This too meant that while a British force would reach the passes of Hindu Kush after sur- mounting immense difficulties , a Tsarist force would merely have to take ...
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