Pakistan Army
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The Qualitative Destruction of Pakistan Army between 1955 and 1971
An essay by retired Major A. H. Amin, written in 1999 and reposted from his Military History Centre site, arguing the Pakistan Army’s quality was eroded between 1955 and 1971…
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Book Review: The Quetta Experience: A Study of Attitudes and Values Within the Pakistan Army by David O Smith
Hamid Hussain reviews David Smith’s The Quetta Experience, praising its study of the Pakistan Army’s Staff College based on American officers’ accounts from 1977 to 2014, and agreeing that fear…
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After the 1971 Ceasefire: The Officers Who Wrote to Yahya
Reproduces a Pakistani officer’s account of the weeks after the 1971 ceasefire, including a reported letter from officers of 6 Armoured Division asking President Yahya to resign, and the subsequent…
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Book Review: The Battle for Pakistan
Hamid Hussain reviews Shuja Nawaz’s The Battle for Pakistan as a timely work, praising its access to Pakistani army and US sources on the transactional US-Pakistan relationship, army succession struggles…
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Interview with a Mujahid: Maj Gen Tajammal Hussain Malik
An interview Major Amin conducted in 2001 with the late Maj Gen Tajammal Hussain Malik, a devout officer who planned to assassinate Zia, posted with a long introduction as a…
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Nicknames in the British Indian Army
Reposting an older essay by Hamid Hussain on officers’ nicknames, a British army tradition carried into the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi armies, with examples such as ‘Sam’ Manekshaw, ‘Timmy’ Thimayya…
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Why Musa was made C in C Pakistan Army
Reposting Aslam Minhas, via Major Amin, on why Ayub Khan made General Musa commander-in-chief in 1958, overlooking the better qualified Habibullah Khan, a choice that some officers later saw as…
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The “Same Page” saga..
Retired general Asad Durrani’s article on the army chief’s tenure extension and the ‘same page’ arrangement in Pakistan, reposted with red comments by Dr Hamid Hussain and blue comments by…
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Book Review: The Battle for Pakistan by Shuja Nawaz
A review of Shuja Nawaz’s The Battle for Pakistan, praised for balanced treatment of civil-military imbalance and foreign policy since 9/11. The reviewer discloses a personal debt to Nawaz from…
