gfiles magazine

October 8, 2018

Governance : Short sighted smugness


THE letter from a retiring Chief of Army Staff to the Prime Minister that made headlines in March 2012 calling attention of the Government to the critically depleting state of armament and equipment in the Indian Army’s principal fighting arms like mechanised forces, artillery, air defence, infantry, Special Forces and so on was neither the first nor the last. As a practice, prior to demitting office, all military chiefs have been submitting reports to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence on the state of their respective Services. 

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