Putting on the Strategic Squeeze

No it's not a move you try to put on your date on Valentine's Day. With the US already in Afghanistan and threatening to enter Iran, and some presidential candidates talking about cross border incursions into its territory Pakistan now finds itself in a position it wished to avoid through the philosophy of Strategic Depth: A Strategic Squeeze. The very situation that was realized and feared after the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan, that of a lonely figure surrounded by two gangs in sympathy with each other, has been realized again. In a sense this is even worse since now the Pakistanis have had to carry out operations within their western border.