Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines President Donald Trump's South Asia Strategy, which places Afghanistan in a broader regional context. During Bush and Obama’s administrations, the regional policy was Afghanistan–Pakistan (Af-Pak) centric, and while under Trump’s regime (2017–2021), Afghanistan, Pakistan and India seemed to be given more weight. The United States (US), a leading proponent of regional security in Afghanistan, has found itself in a difficult situation while making a balancing choice between regional adversaries such as the Sino-Pak Axis and India, whose conflicting interests in Afghanistan have always created a Gordian Knot-like problem. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, some competing views emerged with regard to the practicability of Trump’s policy. Against this backdrop, this article attempts to examine the following question: Would Trump have been able to cut the Gordian knot if he had achieved his strategic objective of peace and regional security in Afghanistan?
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