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Acknowledgements ix
List of acronyms x
Introduction 1
Defining Milbus 4
Literature survey 8
What drives Milbus? 10
Consequences of Milbus 13
Milbus and Pakistan 18
Outline of the book 24
Milbus: a theoretical concept 30
Civil-military relations framework 30
A typology of civil-military relations 33
The civil-military partnership type 36
The authoritarian-political-military partnership type 41
The ruler military type 43
The arbitrator military type 47
The parent-guardian military type 51
The warlord type 55
The Pakistan military: the development of praetorianism, 1947-77 58
The military institution 59
The military's primary role 62
The military's secondary role 64
The military in politics and governance 65
Initiation to power, 1947-58 69
The rise to power, 1958-71 72
Returning to democracy, 1971-7 77
Evolution of the military class, 1977-2005 83
The coercive military, 1977-88 84
A thorny partnership, 1988-99 91
Consolidation of power, 1999-2005 95
Evolving into a military class 106
The structure of Milbus 112
The economic empire 112
The organization 114
The subsidiaries 117
The members 126
Milbus: the formative years, 1954-77 129
Setting up the economic empire, 1954-69 129
The era of restraint, 1969-77 135
Expansion of Milbus, 1977-2005 139
Re-establishing financial autonomy, 1977-88 139
Civilian-military politico-economic integration, 1988-99 151
Consolidating the economic interests, 1999-2005 166
The new land barons 174
The military and land 174
Urban land acquisition 185
The sociology of military land 200
Providing for the men: military welfare 206
Military welfare 206
The Fauji Foundation model 209
The AWT model 210
Welfare for individuals 211
The political geography of military welfare 213
The cost of Milbus 219
The cost of economic inefficiency 219
Army Welfare Trust: a financial assessment 220
Fauji Foundation 227
Shaheen Foundation 232
Resource pilferage 233
Frontier Works Organization 234
Economic opportunity cost 235
Milbus and the future of Pakistan 243
Recapping Milbus 243
Milbus in Pakistan 244
Milbus and military professionalism 244
The politics of Pakistan 248
The impact of Milbus in the future 251
Notes 253
References 272
Index 287
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Sarah Roesler
reviewed Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy on August 20, 2013
Military Inc.
Stephen Cohen defines the Pakistan army succinctly, there are three types of armies that guard their nation's borders, there are those that are concerned by protecting their own position in society, and there are those which defend a cause or an idea. The Pakistan army does all three.
Islamic Pakistan was defined in reaction to a Hindu India.
Another interesting observation is that the Army was sort of encouraged by Jinnah to act independently when he was convinced into receding his earlier order of attacking Kashmir in 1947 by the British COAS. Notice India still had a British governor general, thus avoiding any friction in carrying out orders.
Coming from an army background myself, there was little I didn't know of Pakistan Army's business ventures, but the book still provided a comprehensive breakdown of the huge numbers involved. Milbus has managed to create a new class of urban feudal class in Pakistan, one which seems even lucrative to the legacy feudal of the rural variety.
I found the book very difficult to digest as it reads like a PhD dissertation crammed with heavy stats, numbers and pretty boring facts. Ayesha could have masse the book a lot more interesting by introducing some candid interviews of army personal who do make very interesting interviewees.
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