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Not understanding Indian Air Force can endanger national security: Retd Air Vice Marshal
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The recent controversy over the marginalisation of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in the proposed 'theaterisation' of the national security landscape has led to needless acrimony at the higher echelons of military leadership and exposed the hollowness of 'jointness' within India's armed forces.
The recent controversy over the marginalisation of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in the proposed 'theaterisation' of the national security landscape has led to needless acrimony at the higher echelons of military leadership and exposed the hollowness of 'jointness' within India's armed forces.
Not understanding Indian Air Force can endanger national security: Retd Air Vice Marshal
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...."From a historical perspective, the continued claims from within the Indian military that jointness is firm since officers from all the three services have grown in service through joint institutions such as National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College and National Defence College faces an acid test.
This author has often defended the trajectory of 'jointmanship' within India's armed forces in the face of pointed criticism from home and abroad, but finds it impossible now not to point out the emerging fissures and cracks before they cause irreparable damage.
Rather than transfer the blame onto the bureaucracy or the political establishment for not understanding the armed forces well enough, it is time to recognise the 'enemy within' -- a knowledge deficit within senior leadership that has led to a breakdown of trust. This serious knowledge deficit within the senior leadership on what the other service brings to the table and a reluctance to address hard and contentious issues till it boils over into the public domain has the potential to completely derail the process of integration, which is an inescapable imperative in a post-Covid global order."....
...."From a historical perspective, the continued claims from within the Indian military that jointness is firm since officers from all the three services have grown in service through joint institutions such as National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College and National Defence College faces an acid test.
This author has often defended the trajectory of 'jointmanship' within India's armed forces in the face of pointed criticism from home and abroad, but finds it impossible now not to point out the emerging fissures and cracks before they cause irreparable damage.
Rather than transfer the blame onto the bureaucracy or the political establishment for not understanding the armed forces well enough, it is time to recognise the 'enemy within' -- a knowledge deficit within senior leadership that has led to a breakdown of trust. This serious knowledge deficit within the senior leadership on what the other service brings to the table and a reluctance to address hard and contentious issues till it boils over into the public domain has the potential to completely derail the process of integration, which is an inescapable imperative in a post-Covid global order."....
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