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Pakistan's arms procurement and military build-up, 1979-99 : in search of a policy / Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha ; foreword by Lawrence Freedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siddiqa-Agha, Ayesha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Defense industries.
- Armed Forces.
- Military policy.
- Pakistan--Military policy.
- Pakistan.
- Pakistan--Armed Forces--Procurement.
- Defense industries--Pakistan.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 231 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- This book presents a fundamental departure in presenting an analysis of the internal dynamics of defense management and decision-making in Pakistan--a new nuclear weapon state. This is an in-depth study of Pakistan's security link with its arms suppliers and defense industrial capacity, and the influence of Pakistan's army on conventional and unconventional defense decisions. The analysis is backed with numerous case studies of defense decisions carried out from 1979-99.
- Contents:
- 1 Development of Threat Perception 13
- The Afghan crisis and Pakistan's security 13
- India-Pakistan: a conflict of interest 17
- Enhancement of threat in the Indian subcontinent 19
- The conventional arms race 29
- 2 The Official Decision-Making System 35
- The 1973 White Paper on 'Higher Defence Organization' 37
- Management of defense decision-making 38
- The arms procurement decision-making process 50
- The arms procurement funding process 53
- 3 Pakistan's Power Politics and Defense Decision-Making 55
- Direct actors 55
- Indirect actors 75
- 4 The Cost of Military Buildup 79
- Defense: the economic burden 79
- Social cost 86
- 5 Pakistan's Arms Suppliers 91
- Pakistan-US arms transfer links: 1979-88 91
- Pakistan-US arms transfer links: 1988-99 95
- Pakistan-Europe arms transfer links: 1979-99 103
- New sources 103
- Pakistan-China links: pre-1979 105
- Pakistan-China arms transfer links: 1979-99 105
- 6 Military Industrial Complex 109
- Pakistan defense production: an overview 109
- Defense production for the Army 118
- Defense production for the Air Force 126
- Defense production for the Navy 130
- Research and Development establishments 132
- 7 Military Buildup Decisions, 1979-90 137
- Pakistan's military buildup, 1979-90: an overview 137
- Arms procurement for the Air Force 139
- Arms procurement for the Army 146
- Arms procurement for the Navy 154
- 8 Military Buildup Decisions, 1990-99 160
- Arms procurement for the Navy 160
- Arms procurement for the Air Force 169
- Weapons procurement for the Army 175
- 9 Mutually Assured Deterrence: the Nuclear Option 178
- Pakistan's nuclear option: the strategic dimension 178
- Nuclear proliferation: the domestic political perspective 183
- Nuclear proliferation: the bureaucratic perspective 185
- 10 Looking Ahead 190
- The need for military modernization 190
- The political scene 192
- The economic scene 195
- The strategic scene 198.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333731727
- OCLC:
- 45394094
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