In an opinion piece on the India-China Ladakh crisis, RSIS Associate Professor Anit Mukherjee said that for the crisis to be the trigger for effective reform, civilian buy-in is key. Civilians need to focus, perhaps by creating a Defence Reforms Unit nested within the National Security Council, he said. This can push the military to adopt necessarily painful organisational reforms.

…Dr. Anit Mukherjee a Associate Professor, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore The views expressed are personal.