Four More Books Reviewd - Irfan Hussain

Earlier on I linked A G Noorani's review of four books. Here is Irfan Hussain's review of (incidentally) four books. His conclusion:

As all the four books show in their own ways, our officer corps has been brainwashed into taking a rigid ideological position that is hopelessly out of step with regional and global realities. Although it has convinced itself that it is the country’s saviour, in reality it has made Pakistan a far less secure place than we have a right to expect after the billions we have poured into our defence. And as all four writers have shown (even though that was probably not Musharraf’s intention), the army is now so much a part of the problem that it cannot possibly also be part of the solution. But while we have all been saying this for years, we are no closer to solving the ‘army problem’ today than we were when the generals began interfering in the political process half a century ago.