American role in the Kashmir dispute has been a controversial one. While Washington claimed neutrality between India and Pakistan in its search for a peaceful settlement of the crisis, the US policy progressively came to be identified as pro-Pakistani, especially by the Indians. This policy apparently reached its climax in May 1954 when the United States befriended Pakistan by agreeing to supply arms to Karachi under a Mutual Security Assistance pact. Although designed as a Cold War strategy, the US-Pakistan alliance was taken by the Indians as more anti-Indian than anti-Soviet. Reasoning...