The very divergent political evolution of the Indian and Pakistani armed forces has long puzzled political analysts. Why has the Indian Army turned its back on domestic politics, while the Pakistan Army has directly ruled the country for extended periods and controls its national security policy? Why do the two Armies, cut from the same cloth, behave so differently?
Indian Military: Apolitical and Autonomous
C. Raja Mohan
ARMY AND NATION: THE MILITARY AND INDIAN DEMOCRACY SINCE INDEPENDENCE by Steven I. Wilkinson Permanent Black, Delhi, 2015, 295 pp., 795
October 2015, volume 39, No 10