Radio War Nerd EP109—Kashmir Separatism with Ahsan Butt

Guest: Ahsan Butt, author & professor The War Nerd has been wanting to talk about the Kashmir standoff for some time, and thanks to a great subscriber suggestion we found a brilliant scholar on the subject of Kashmir separatism, GMU professor Ahsan Butt, to help untangle a complex situation: local separatism, regional power struggle between India and Pakistan, the wars in Afghanistan & the Pakistan Taleban insurgencies of the past decade...At the top of the show, we discuss the Zimbabwe coup & the Saudi purge... Ahsan Butt is the author of "Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy against Separatists" published by Cornell University Press.