ABSTRACT
Christine Fair (2014) argues that Pakistan's persistent revisionism in the face of repeated defeats is not security driven but ideological. The competing entity is not just the military, as it is generally believed, but a dynamic syndicate of military, militant, radical Islamist and political-economic structures that pursue a set of domestic and foreign policies to ensure its own survival and relative dominance: the military-jihadi complex (MJC). This chapter employs theoretical concepts in organization theory to understand what we mean by the term 'complex'. An example of a complex is the Google Play Store ecosystem: the official store and portal for Android apps, games and other content. The Pakistani MJC is a highly interconnected and interdependent organization, comprising of a dynamic network of military, militant, radical Islamist and political-economic structures that pursues a set of domestic and foreign policies to ensure its own survival and relative dominance. The chapter surveys the MJC's operational tactics and strategies.
