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Essay on Military Of Pakistan
Nations confronted with security threats right from the outset of their independent career, or nations born with some geographical peculiarity, are more likely to seek quick military preparedness through individual efforts or through collective efforts generated by an alliance partnership. Pakistan is one such country
1. It was not only born with an acute geographical peculiarity (two widely separated parts), but also perceived a security problem right at the beginning-both external and internal threats to its independence and territorial integrity. Added pressures arising from periodic domestic upheavals and ethnic movements coupled with internal subversive upsurges from time to time further complicated the situation for the security planners of the country. Sandwiched between hostile India and unfriendly Afghanistan, Pakistan's security perceptions have largely been influenced by the state of its relationships with those two countries. More specifically, the single largest determining factor has been and in many ways still is the continuous hostility of India. The fear of India has overshadowed almost all other considerations from the start; according to its first Prime Minister, who was also its first Defence Minister, defense dominated all other activities.
2 Even prior to the 1971 dismemberment, when East Pakistan became Bangladesh, hostilities with India played a much greater role than the geographical peculiarity of East Pakistan.
A number of factors intensified Pakistan's Military sense of insecurity during the early phase. First, its territory lacked adequate depth. Its main communication lines ran parallel to the manmade Indo-Pak border and most of its major cities were (and still are) situated close to this border.
Second, Pakistan lacked a well-trained, adequately equipped, well-disciplined and numerically sufficient Military. Third, Pakistan had no arms industry; besides, not much in the way of arms, even the legitimately allocated share of arms, were transferred to Pakistan at the time of partition with India....
