{"id":29531,"date":"2010-03-15T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iecah.org\/an-anvil-of-clay-pakistans-military-balks-at-obamas-surge\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:24:12","slug":"an-anvil-of-clay-pakistans-military-balks-at-obamas-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iecah.org\/en\/an-anvil-of-clay-pakistans-military-balks-at-obamas-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anvil of Clay: Pakistan\u2019s Military Balks at Obama\u2019s Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"102\" height=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/iecah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/docs_iecah.jpeg\" alt=\"docs_iecah\" class=\"wp-image-3507\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"c-title-2 wp-block-heading\">Document .iecah. n\u00ba 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Robert Matthews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paper prepared by Robert Matthews for the Norwegian Peacebuilding Center (NOREF), Oslo, January 2010, analyzing the importance of Pakistan for the resolution of the conflict in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a data-wplink-edit=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/iecah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/documento3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Document IECAH n\u00ba 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Document .iecah. n\u00ba 3 By Robert Matthews Paper prepared by Robert Matthews for the Norwegian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":23425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[510,511],"tags":[521],"iecah_area":[503],"iecah_language":[504],"class_list":["post-29531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-documents","tag-peacebuilding","iecah_area-online","iecah_language-english"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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