New Reform in India's Defence sector




Recently our Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat held a meeting just a few weeks ago with the Vice Chief of the Army, the Navy, the Air force, and also with Representatives of ministers of home and finance, national security council, integrate defence staff and Department of Defense. The meeting was concerned about the proposed model of the integrated theatre commands 

What is Integrated Theatre Commands?

We all know that General Bipin Rawat was appointed as a first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) to unify all defence forces Army, Navy, and Air force but still not unified fully. In simple words, it is a unified command under which all the resources of the Army, the Navy, and the Air force will utilize properly, depending on the threat perception  

What type of Integrated Theatre Command would be made

An Air Defence Command, which will be mandated with air defence across the country and beyond. The fighter jets will have reconnaissance and surveillance assets as well.

Two or three land-based commands are proposed. If there are two commands, there will be one each for India's borders with China and Pakistan. And there is also a proposal to have another command looking at India's borders with Pakistan and China in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, given the unique territory and security needs of the country in that region.

A Maritime Theatre Command, which will take care of all the maritime security needs of the country on both the eastern and the western seaboards, and will include air strike assets and amphibian forces of the Army.


There will be a Logistics Command, which will have the logistics of all the Services under one person; and there will be a Training and Doctrine Command so that all Services work under a common doctrine and have some basic common training. these theatre commands, there will be two functional tri-Services commands as well. And also there will be a Training and Doctrine Command so that all Services work under a common doctrine and have some basic common training.

HOW MANY COMMANDS ARE THERE NOW?

As of now, the three forces have 17 commands between them.

The Army has seven commands: Northern, Eastern, Southern, Western, Central, Southwestern, and Army Training Command (ARTRAC).

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The Air Force has seven as well: Western, Eastern, Southern, Southwestern, Central, Training, and Maintenance commands.

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The Navy has three: Western, Eastern and Southern, of which Southern is largely about training.

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There are two existing tri-Service commands as well - the Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC), which is headed by rotation by officers from the three Services, and the Strategic Force Command, which is responsible for India's nuclear assets.

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