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Group Captain Murli Menon (retd)
Defence analyst
THE historical backdrop to India’s penchant for theaterisation goes back to the 1999 Kargil war and the two committees that followed headed by K Subrahmanyam and Naresh Chandra which made a slew of recommendations to the government regarding higher defence management. The creation of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) was prime among those recommendations and the incumbent can be seen at work now, the latest salvo being the Integrated Maritime Theatre study by the Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (VCNS) that is due for submission shortly. This study supposedly recommends the creation of the Maritime Theatre Command (MTC), earlier referred to as the Peninsular Theatre Command. Be that as it may, the ongoing border stand-off with China threatens to reinforce India’s land-oriented war focus.