Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan (retd), a former eastern Army commander and director general of military operations, was appointed India's second Chief of Defence Staff on September 28. He is the first retired three-star officer to return to service in four-star rank.
The CDS also stressed the need for joint structures for ISR, logistics, and air defence networks, which have developed independently but now require integration across the Army, Navy, and Air Force
Lt Gen Anil Chauhan is known to express his views frankly, not necessarily adopting the conventional approach