INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: India is now once again determinedly working towards the creation of theatre commands to build an integrated war-fighting
address all concerns.The plan primarily is now to have three integrated theatre commands, headed by senior three-star generals (Lt-Generals,
Air Marshals or Vice Admirals), to handle the northern borders with China, western front with Pakistan and a maritime command in peninsular
India, top defence sources told TOI.The proposal for an Air Defence Command (ADC) has been junked
interdependent and could not be executed in isolation during conflicts
first chief of defence staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat died in a helicopter crash in 2021
With General Anil Chauhan taking over as the CDS last year, the government introduced the Inter-Services Organisations (Command, Control and
Discipline) Bill in Parliament in March this year for the existing tri-Service organisations as well as the proposed theatre commands.The
Towards this end, the first lot of 102 officers (Army 40, IAF 32 and Navy 30) in the rank of Majors and Lt-Colonels were recently
operations and communications to logistics and procurements
