Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Build-Up 1979-99 In Search of a Policy

by Siddiqa-Agha, Ayesha

• ISBN13: 9780333731727
• ISBN10: 0333731727
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Author Biography

Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha is Ford Fellow at the Bonn International Center for Conversion.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
List of Figures and Map	ix
Acknowledgements	x
Preface	xi
Foreword	xii
Glossary	xiv
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I
Development of Threat Perception	13	(22)
The Afghan crisis and Pakistan's security	13	(4)
India-Pakistan: a conflict of interest	17	(2)
Enhancement of threat in the Indian subcontinent	19	(10)
The conventional arms race	29	(6)
The Official Decision-Making System	35	(20)
Background	35	(2)
The 1973 White Paper on `Higher Defence Organization'	37	(1)
Management of defense decision-making	38	(12)
The arms procurement decision-making process	50	(3)
The arms procurement funding process	53	(2)
Pakistan's Power Politics and Defense Decision-Making	55	(24)
Direct actors	55	(20)
Indirect actors	75	(4)
The Cost of Military Buildup	79	(12)
Defense: the economic burden	79	(7)
Social cost	86	(5)
Pakistan's Arms Suppliers	91	(18)
Pakistan-US arms transfer links: 1979--88	91	(4)
Pakistan-US arms transfer links: 1988--99	95	(8)
Pakistan-Europe arms transfer links: 1979--99	103	(1)
New sources	103	(2)
Pakistan-China links: pre-1979	105	(1)
Pakistan-China arms transfer links: 1979--99	105	(4)
Military Industiral Complex	109	(28)
Pakistan defense production: an overview	109	(9)
Defense production for the Army	118	(8)
Defense production for the Air Force	126	(4)
Defense production for the Navy	130	(2)
Research and Development establishments	132	(5)
Part II
Military Buildup Decisions, 1979--90	137	(23)
Pakistan's military buildup, 1979-90: an overview	137	(2)
Arms procurement for the Air Force	139	(7)
Arms procurement for the Army	146	(8)
Arms procurement for the Navy	154	(6)
Military Buildup Decisions, 1990-99	160	(18)
Arms procurement for the Navy	160	(9)
Arms procurement for the Air Force	169	(6)
Weapons procurement for the Army	175	(3)
Mutually Assured Deterrence: the Nuclear Option	178	(12)
Pakistan's nuclear option: the strategic dimension	178	(5)
Nuclear proliferation: the domestic political perspective	183	(2)
Nuclear proliferation: the bureaucratic perspective	185	(5)
Looking Ahead	190	(13)
The need for military modernization	190	(2)
The political scene	192	(3)
The economic scene	195	(3)
The strategic scene	198	(5)
Notes	203	(13)
Bibliography	216	(11)
Index	227