India, Dec. 2 -- Participative or liberal democracies are predicated on the concept of civilian control over the military. In his book, The Soldier and the State, Samuel P Huntington expands on the idea as "the proper subordination of a competent, professional military to the ends of policy as determined by civilian authority", wherein the State apparatus of the armed forces is constitutionally subordinate to the civilian-elected politicians or the constitutional heads. Various democracies have wired this uniquely within their own political frameworks, with the President assuming the role of the supreme commander of the Indian armed forces. In the UK , the reigning monarch is referred to as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of th...