Evolution of Pakistan Eastern Command planとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Eastern Military High Command of Pakistan Armed Force, was a field level military command, headed by the appointed senior 3-star rank officer, who was designated as the "Unified Commander of Eastern Military High Command". After the Indian Partition by Great-Britain, the Islamic Republic State of Pakistan was divided into two wings which were separated by 1,000 miles (1,600 km) prior to the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. Bulk of the Pakistan Armed Forces was stationed in West Pakistan and the role of the Pakistan Armed forces in East-Pakistan was to hold out until Pakistan defeated India in the west in case of war. The Pakistan Armed Forces created the Eastern Military High Command, with one unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces responsible for the command. The Pakistan Armed Forces, particularly the Pakistan Army, had drawn up a plan to defend Dhaka by concentrating all their forces along the “Dhaka Bowl”, the area surrounded by the rivers Jamuna, Padma and Meghna. After Pakistan launched Operation Searchlight and Operation Barisal to curb the Awami League led political movement in March 1971, leading to the creation of Mukti Bahini and widespread insurgency throughout Bangladesh, General Niazi, last unified commander of Eastern Military High Command, revised the existing plan according to the Pakistan's premier Generals Headquarter (GHQ) directive, which emphasized the need to prevent the Mukti Bahini from occupying any area of the province and to fight for every inch of territory, as the HQ expected the Indians to occupy a large area of the province, transfer the Mukti Bahini and the refugees there and recognize the Bangladesh government in exile – turning the insurgency into an international diplomatic issue. General Niazi and his deputy unified commander Vice-Admiral Mohammad Shariff, designated 10 cities (Jessore, Jhenaidah, Bogra, Rangpur, Jamalpur, Mymensingh, Sylhet, Comilla and Chittagong), which were located on major communication hubs as Fortresses and placed the bulk of his troops near the Indian border. The final plan called for the armed forces to delay the Indian attacks at the border and then gradually fall back to the fortress towns. From the fortresses part of the surviving force was to take up position near Dhaka and hold out until India was defeated in the west, while the Pakistani forces in the fortress towns would hold up bulk of the Indian forces and prevent them from concentrating on Dhaka.