The principles laid down in 1859 C.E. were reaffirmed in 1879 C.E. by the high-level Eden Commission appointed to examine the problems of the army in India. Both the Peel Commission in 1859 C.E. and the Eden Commission in 1879 C.E. based their recommendations on the premise that no major foreign expeditions were likely, and that the main problem was internal security. Army policy was not altered even after the second Afghan war and only after the Russian scare of 1885 C.E. was the Eden Commission's assumption that 60,000 men were the maximum necessary under any circumstances shattered.
