| Contents |
1. Introduction; What's in a Name?; Overview of Pakistan's Contemporary Militant Landscape; Data and Methods; Plan of the Book -- 2. The Genesis of the Indo-Pakistan Security Competition; Summoning a Muslim Zion in South Asia; The Origins of Pakistan's Kashmir Obsession; Three Obdurate Princes; Rending the Punjab; Military, Mullah, Militant Nexus: The Army and the Ideology of Pakistan; Pakistan Repeatedly Tries to Change Maps through War; Implications of this History -- 3. Pakistan's Creeping Jihad and Expanding Nuclear Umbrella; Twinned Histories of Proxy Warfare and Nuclear Coercion; Jihad in Afghanistan and India Under Expanding Nuclear Umbrella; Pakistan's Jihad in Afghanistan; Pakistan's Jihad in India; Conclusions and Implications -- 4. What is LeT? A Critical Examination; Situating LeT within South Asia's Salafis; Early History of MDI, Jud and LeT; Organizational Structure; Key Leadership; Financing the Army of the Pure; Training Soldiers in the Army of the Pure; The Nascence of the Milli Muslim League; Conclusions and Implications -- 5. Who Are the Soldiers in the Army of the Pure?; Introduction to the Dataset on Slain LeT Activists; Characteristics of the Soldiers in the Army of the Pure; Why They Fight: Motivating the Fighters in the Army of the Pure; Recruiting the Families of the Fighters: Mothers May Matter Most; Conclusion and Implications -- 6. The Domestic Politics of LeT; Key Sources for this Chapter; Why Wage Jihad and Under What Circumstances?; Defending Jihad against the Myriad Excuses against Jihad; Why Not Wage Jihad in Pakistan?; Christians Among Muslims; Friends with Benefits: Symbiosis with the Deep State; Conclusions and Implications -- 7. Dealing with LeT and Escaping Pakistan's Nuclear Coercion; Option 1. Maintain the Status Quo: American Cupidity and Indian "Strategic Restraint"; Option 2. Leadership Decapitation: What Happens in LeT Heads Roll?; Option 3. Escaping Pakistan's Coercion Strategy; There Are No Good Options. Just "Less Bad" Options. |
