Re: The New Power Structure after “Deal”
originally in the reforms of the 1970’s there was no VCOAS, it was a post created by Zia to allow him to delegate many of the responsibilities of the COAS while he involved himself in politics and without giving up his position in the army.
on side note, the poorest examples of co ordination within the pak military’s history are probably two one under Yahya Khan when he ordered the supposed pre-emptive air strike against India in 1971, (which was an utter failure)..the airforce had little co ordination with the army and the navy was almost totally out of the loop. That poor level of coordination helped the Indians with their naval raid on karachi harbour..that was under the C in C system. The second was probably kargil where the operation was launched without any involvement of the other service chiefs, it was purely an army matter and betrayed Mushs poor relationship with some of the other service chiefs. In fact amongst Musharrafs first moves in his first two years was a purge of suspected Nawaz Sharif sympathisers in the Air force, Navy and obviously the engineering corp.