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1. The large, single-entity PAP stands out in stark in contrast to India’s ‘alphabet-soup’

of Home Ministry-run central para-military forces: the Central Reserve Police Force

(CRPF) and its Rapid-Action Force (RAF), the Border Security Force (BSF), the

Assam Rifles (AR), the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP), and the Railway Protection Force

(RPF). In addition, there are the various armed police organizations of the individual states, such as the Punjab Armed Police (PAP), the Rajasthan Armed Constabulary (RAC), the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) of the Uttar Pradesh government, Maharashtra’s State Reserve Police (SRP), West Bengal’s Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) and West Bengal Armed Police (WBAP), the ‘Greyhounds’ of the Andhra Pradesh Police, the Nagaland Armed Police (NAP), the Bihar Military Police (BMP), and many others. This plethora of organizations means that India’s internal security (IS) structure is both horizontally and vertically divided, with the inevitable problems of coordination and cooperation, even without the added complexities if

the armed forces are brought in on IS duties.

2. ‘MUCD’: Abbreviation of ‘Military Unit Cover Designation’, a specific individual

number which is given by the PLA to each separate formation HQ and to each

major unit It is used to disguise the level and type of unit, or formation HQ, as

well as the specific unit or HQ, which would otherwise be apparent even to the

casual reader.

3. Visible to readers by using Google Earth.

4. Hans Kristensen, ‘Extensive nuclear deployment are discovered in Central China’, on

the Internet, 15th May 2008.

5. The Chinese version of the Tibetan name ‘Gter gling kha’, pronounced ‘Terlingka’

meaning the ‘Garden of Minerals’. The area is sparsely populated by Tibetans and

Mongols.

6. R.V. Phadke, ‘China’s Power Projection’, 2005, p. 205.

7. Kotare, The Strategist, ‘Chinese Cyberwar and Advantageous Circumstances,’

September 6, 2007, and Wikipedia, on the Internet.

8. David Shambaugh, ‘Modernizing China’s Military’, University of California Press,

quoting Pu Xing Zu, ‘Zhonghua renmin gongheguo zhenzhi zhidu’, p. 560.

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