Neighbours In Arms: An American Senator's Quest For Disarmament In A Nuclear Subcontinent
by Larry Pressler /
2017 / English / EPUB
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As chairman of the US Senate s Arms Control Subcommittee, Larry
Pressler advocated the now-famous Pressler Amendment, enforced in
1990. Aid and military sales to Pakistan were blocked, including a
consignment of F-16 fighter aircraft, changing forever the tenor of
the United States relationships with Pakistan and India, and making
Pressler a temporary hero throughout India and a devil in Pakistan
. This book reveals what went on behind the scenes in the years
when the Pressler Amendment was in force, through a cast of
characters that include presidents, prime ministers, senators and
generals in the US, India and Pakistan. It exposes the enormous
power wielded by the military-industrial complex, which the author
terms Octopus , and how it controls significant aspects of the
American presence in the Indian subcontinent.
As chairman of the US Senate s Arms Control Subcommittee, Larry
Pressler advocated the now-famous Pressler Amendment, enforced in
1990. Aid and military sales to Pakistan were blocked, including a
consignment of F-16 fighter aircraft, changing forever the tenor of
the United States relationships with Pakistan and India, and making
Pressler a temporary hero throughout India and a devil in Pakistan
. This book reveals what went on behind the scenes in the years
when the Pressler Amendment was in force, through a cast of
characters that include presidents, prime ministers, senators and
generals in the US, India and Pakistan. It exposes the enormous
power wielded by the military-industrial complex, which the author
terms Octopus , and how it controls significant aspects of the
American presence in the Indian subcontinent.
