Without the DMA, it would have been a challenge for the Chief of Defence Staff to fulfil role. With it, the CDS can be the prime mover in Indian military.
The new Chief of Defence Staff will be a secretary in the Ministry of Defence, just like the secretaries of defence procurement and ex-servicemen welfare.
For India, this is not an opportunity for schadenfreude but rather a reflection of shared responsibility. It's what happens when the governance framework underpinning economic growth is weakened.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
With all due respect to the writer, we must understand that political skullduggery, fight for influence & departmental competition are entrenched in the body politic, the bureaucracy & military in India. The CDS & the associated developments are only a start. The chief of the tri services would not have agreed to the CDS in the first place, had their own mandates been encroached upon. Thus the reforms in this regard are a start and all the shortcomings expressed by the general would be addressed in due course as all the officials involved absorb the new developments. It is better to make a start somewhere so that the status quo is broken and reforms are set into motion. This is the case with the Railway reforms too.
All done in a hurry bury situation to favour Gen.Bipin Rawat, without foresight, farsightedness said of the drastic,hasty orders to public, Similar to “link PAN with Aadhar” There is “No Smoke without fire” ThoseInititiated2LitFIRE,also needs to feel the heat of the flames generated by fire.for their own realization. Please see my comments on FB and that tweeted, giving deadline to public ” to link PAN with Aadhar. The common public cannot be tolerating foolish acts at the National level.
Very comprehensive analysis by a former General. It is puzzling as to how both the CDS and the Service Chiefs can be advisors to the Defence Minister. It will surely lead to some embarrassing situations. The old world-war II concept of army, airforce and navy being separate must go. In due course, armed forces should be single defence forces of India. Another issue raised in this article is that of all the people, the defence secretary, who is an IAS officer is responsible for the Defence of the country! The British have left a nice time bomb in our defence set up. How come none has thought of changing this absurd provision?
Finally PMO will rule over every thing conceived by this new post as usual.
With all due respect to the writer, we must understand that political skullduggery, fight for influence & departmental competition are entrenched in the body politic, the bureaucracy & military in India. The CDS & the associated developments are only a start. The chief of the tri services would not have agreed to the CDS in the first place, had their own mandates been encroached upon. Thus the reforms in this regard are a start and all the shortcomings expressed by the general would be addressed in due course as all the officials involved absorb the new developments. It is better to make a start somewhere so that the status quo is broken and reforms are set into motion. This is the case with the Railway reforms too.
All done in a hurry bury situation to favour Gen.Bipin Rawat, without foresight, farsightedness said of the drastic,hasty orders to public, Similar to “link PAN with Aadhar” There is “No Smoke without fire” ThoseInititiated2LitFIRE,also needs to feel the heat of the flames generated by fire.for their own realization. Please see my comments on FB and that tweeted, giving deadline to public ” to link PAN with Aadhar. The common public cannot be tolerating foolish acts at the National level.
Very comprehensive analysis by a former General. It is puzzling as to how both the CDS and the Service Chiefs can be advisors to the Defence Minister. It will surely lead to some embarrassing situations. The old world-war II concept of army, airforce and navy being separate must go. In due course, armed forces should be single defence forces of India. Another issue raised in this article is that of all the people, the defence secretary, who is an IAS officer is responsible for the Defence of the country! The British have left a nice time bomb in our defence set up. How come none has thought of changing this absurd provision?