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1 Counterview: The IAF has categorically made it clear that it has very different views from those expressed by General Rawat (right). PTI
Manoj Joshi
Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
There is considerable alarm in India’s strategic community as to whether the moves towards restructuring the armed forces to create theatre commands have been sufficiently thought through. A great deal of it arises from concerns that the man chosen to lead the task in 2017, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, has never really had the intellectual heft to handle it. He proved this spectacularly last week in declaring at a seminar that the Indian Air Force was merely ‘a supporting arm to the armed forces, just as artillery support or the engineer support the combatant arms in the Army.’
ISSUE DATE: July 12, 2021
UPDATED: July 3, 2021 12:16 IST
Gen. Bipin Rawat, first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) (C) poses for a group photograph with Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane (L), Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh (2nd L), and Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria after inspecting the Guard of Honour at South Block lawns in New Delhi on January 1 2020; Photo by Chandradeep Kumar
Phase two of India’s biggest post-independence military reform is likely to be announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15, 2021. The defence ministry will initiate the setting up of India’s first two integrated military theatres an integrated maritime theatre command based in Karwar and an integrated air defence command based in Allahabad. Of the two theatres, one will pool warships, patrol craft, soldiers and fighter jets, and the other missile and gun regiments with a network of ground and air radars.
Air force will assist ground forces: CDS General Bipin Rawat
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat, said on Friday that the air force has to be there to assist the ground forces and will be part of theatre commands
| 4 July 2021 1:37 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat, said on Friday that the air force has to be there to assist the ground forces and will be part of theatre commands, even while maintaining its exclusive mandate.
He also said that for the time being, the Northern Command of the army will remain as it is while for China and Pakistan, there will be dedicated integrated commands.
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प्रमुख रक्षा अध्यक्ष (सीडीएस) जनरल विपिन रावत ने शुक्रवार को कहा कि भारत और चीन दोनों को क्रमिक रूप से पूर्वी लद्दाख में यथास्थिति बहाल करने में सक्षम होना चाहिए, क्योंकि दोनों ही देश यह समझते हैं कि क्षेत्र में शांति और अमन स्थापित करना उनके सर्वोत्तम हित में है। एक विचारक संस्था के कार्यक्रम में अपने संबोधन में जनरल रावत ने कहा कि इसी के साथ भारत को किस�