ABSTRACT
The best way to describe the relationship between Pakistan and the United States is to describe it as a marriage of convenience. Dwight Eisenhower and his primary foreign policy advisors were strongly attached to the idea of creating a global network of anti-Communist alliances as the means through which to contain the Soviet Union and its allies and to deter further communist expansion. When hardly any countries within the developing world were willing to identify themselves with the West and with the United States, Pakistan repeatedly proved itself to be a loyal and resolute supporter of the United States and of United States foreign policy. Pakistan almost always voted with the United States in the United Nations, and strongly defended the United States' foreign policy in various World forums. The surprise Chinese attack upon India on 20 October 1962, however, served to shock American foreign policy towards the subcontinent.
