Nehru's Civil Control Measures and Their Impact on India's Defense Construction and Military Capability(1947-1962)
Civil control is the key connotation of military-government relationship,which fundamentally distinguishes the different types of military-government relations.In the early days of India's independence,Nehru achieved strong and entire civil control through institutional design and ideological formation.For institutional design,Nehru established his own military forces with restraint on the basis of coup-proofing by balancing civil and military forces.By shaping tensions within the bu-reaucracy,he limited the swelling influence of senior officers.At the ideological level,he played down the importance of mili-tary issues in state affairs and enhanced the army's subordination to civil officials by weakening the threat to national security and strengthening the spread of norms of civil control.These measures reduced the possibility of military coups,but on the other hand,they cast negative impact on India's defense construction and military capability.
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