• SURYAKANT NATH

Abstract: In any political system, the presence of the military is due both to historical as well as pragmatic reasons. The state must either monopolize the force of the community or risk surrender to whoever can muster counterforce for its overthrow. The logic of coercion and defence dictates monopoly of force. From primitive society to the modern, the state has resorted to force as a component of its essential authority. Political thinkers since Plato have sought answer to the eternal question, “Who will guard the guardians?” This study of civil-military relations has remained the central question engaging scholars through the ages. Although civil-military relations is a very broad subject, encompassing the entire range of relationships between the military and civilian society at all levels the study largely focuses on the control or direction of the military by the highest civilian authorities in nation-states. This paper tries to look at the multiple dimensions of the civil military relations in general and try and relate it to the challenges it poses in the Indian context.

Key Words: Nation-state, Logic of Coercion, Legitimacy, Strategic Decision-making, Normative Field, Subjective Control, Objective Control, Apolitical, Absent Dialogue.

"Civil Military Relations: A fresh Appraisal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.943-949, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W81.pdf

"Civil Military Relations: A fresh Appraisal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp943-949, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W81.pdf