ACM S K Mehra

Appreciated the book as being crisp and readable. ACM Mehra called it a welcome addition to the debate over what happened in 1990. While Yakub Khan may have threatened using nuclear weapons, the ACM believed that there was no serious tension between India and Pakistan. He disagreed with the contention in the book that the IAF had overreacted. It had clearly detected a change of Pakistan’s electronic order of warfare and hence a certain number of aircrafts had to be strike ready. The remark on page 73, that the army and navy were not consulted, too, is out of context.