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Changing a monolith

The plans currently afoot to restructure the military raise several questions about the command structure and accretion of power

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Illustration: Binay Sinha

Ajai Shukla New Delhi
The most far-reaching structural change to the military that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is currently evaluating relates to restructuring the army, navy and Indian Air Force (IAF) into integrated theatre commands. This involves merging 17 single-service commands into a smaller number of joint-service commands, in which the combat capabilities of all three services are synergised to create greater battlefield effect. To plan, oversee and implement this essential reorganisation, the government created the post of a tri-service Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and, on January 1, 2020, elevated the army chief at that time, General Bipin Rawat, to be the
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