{"id":197318,"date":"2022-07-26T12:57:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=197318"},"modified":"2022-07-26T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T07:27:23","slug":"india-needs-joint-commands-it-needs-a-cds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-needs-joint-commands-it-needs-a-cds\/","title":{"rendered":"India needs joint commands &#038; it needs a CDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: This post is created based on the article \u201c<strong>It\u2019s time India and Japan rethink their nuclear policy<\/strong>\u201d published on <strong>Indian Express<\/strong> on <strong>26<sup>th<\/sup> July 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS Paper 3 \u2013 Security Forces in India<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Recently, India\u2019s Defence Minister re-emphasised that joint theatre commands are a defence reform priority.<\/p>\n<p>The theatre commands are important as\u00a0Warfare is changing. One modern response to these changes it joint commands that amalgamate manpower and resources of the three services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the need of Joint theatre commands?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) The rise of the China-Pakistan axis.<\/p>\n<p>2) Strategic complications highlighted by the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>3) China\u2019s rationalisation and transformation of its armies and establishment of five theatre commands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the challenges to the establishing Joint Theatre Commands?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> at present,\u00a0India has 17 single-service commands spread across a wide geography. Converting these commands into joint theatre commands would require a radical change in the culture of armed forces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> since air force assets have dual offensive and defensive roles, AF has already reservations about further splitting its assets. Government formed an eight-member panel under then Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat in June 2021. But after the death of General, the post of CDS is lying vacant. The position should be filled at the priority and panel should be reactivated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third,<\/strong> the protests and resistance against the Agnipath scheme can be a hurdle to implementation of Joint commands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: This post is created based on the article \u201cIt\u2019s time India and Japan rethink their nuclear policy\u201d published on Indian Express on 26th July 2022. Syllabus: GS Paper 3 \u2013 Security Forces in India News: Recently, India\u2019s Defence Minister re-emphasised that joint theatre commands are a defence reform priority. The theatre commands are important&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-needs-joint-commands-it-needs-a-cds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India needs joint commands &#038; it needs a CDS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-197318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}