Pakistan: The Rising Soviet Threat and Declining U.S. Credibility

Publication Date: June 1980

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): James A. Phillips

Research Area: International relations

Keywords: Russia and Eurasia

Type: Report

Coverage: Pakistan Soviet Union

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the threat which the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan poses to Pakistan,
to explain why, in spite of this threat, an insecure Pakistan saw fit to turn down the American aid package, and to examine the twists and turns in U.S. foreign policy which led the Pakistanis to the conclusion that the United States was an insensitive, unreliable ally.