Download or read book Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99 written by A. Siddiqa-Agha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strategic imperative is held as the primary explanation for Pakistan's military buildup. This book presents a fundamental departure in presenting an analysis of the internal dynamics of defence management and decisionmaking in Pakistan - a new nuclear weapon state. This is an in-depth study of Pakistan's security link with its arms suppliers and defence industrial capacity, and the influence of Pakistan's Army on conventional and non-conventional defence decisions. The analysis is backed with numerous case studies of defence decisions carried out from 1979-99.