SOURCE:
(a) https://frontierindia.com/pearls-of-wisdom-on-air-power-as-enunciated-by-circumstantial-cds-general-bipin-rawat/
(b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhbsvN9o_I
(c) https://youtu.be/7timgL3mEa4
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#CDSGenBipinRawat #TheatreCommand #IndianArmy #IndiaToday
Chief Of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat spoke exclusively to India Today and talked about the Integrated Theatre Command System and recent drone attacks in Jammu IAF.
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Global Defence Summit: IAF Chief RKS Bhadauria Talks About New Assets And Capabilities Of Air Force
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1. Bipin Rawat said; I quote “Air Defence Command is being created to control everything that flies in the air, be it aircraft, missile or an artillery shell-----“ Unquote.
Dear Bipin you have no clue of Air Defence. You are mixing up ‘Coordination of Fire Control’ with Air Defence. Your flawed understanding that by setting up AD Command, there would be no fratricide indicates your total ignorance of dynamics of how an air defence scenario evolves within seconds with rapidly changing situation. Fratricide is an integral part of war; it can be minimized not eliminated. Your mention of Heptr shooting (without saying so in as many words) indicates your total lack of understanding/knowledge of rules of engagement with a developing threat defined by a mere blip on radar scope.
2. Bipin Rawat said; I quote “ Air Force is a supporting service viz Artillery and Engineers-------“Dear Bipin, I actually feel ashamed that both you and I are product of sameestablishment. Your views calling sister service as support service thus comparing IAF with support services of Army borders on professional insanity and lack of professional integrity. In any case let me express my indignation with Army philosophy of categorizing soldiers as ‘ARMS’ and ‘SERVICES’. You can continue with that in the Army. In IAFeveryone is a soldier of only one category. It is this jaundiced mindset that enables youto address a sister service with such derogatory reference. I can only pity you3. Bipin Rawat said on KRC Report; Creation of CDS; 20 years delay.Dear Bipin by making such irresponsible statement you have called the previous governments and more importantly your professional parents, the former Service Chiefs during that period as incompetent, unprofessional and irresponsible for delaying creation of Chief of Defence Staff. In fact it was their collective wisdom, which ensured that the unwanted, unwarranted appointment of Chief of Defence Staff did not emerge. Does it not concern you that KRC did not have an IAF/IN member? As an honest professional of unquestionable professional integrity, it should!4. Bipin Rawat answered when the anchor asked “Why the hurry to meet deadlines”Dear Bipin, your answer to the above question would be fit to be classified as the vaguest answer by a „supposed‟ professional on a highly important strategic issue as to what was the need to alter the time tested and war proven Indian Military structure of Regional Command. If my memory Serves me right, the last regional command of Indian Military was SOUTH WESTERN ARMY COMMAND around 15 years back, which is after KRC report was submitted. Are you trying to call the then government, COAS and other decision making functionaries, who decided to create an An Army Regional Command as late as 2005-6 as incompetent? Did you have professional and moral courage to express a contrarion view in Writing to powers that be? If not why not? Scared to miss the next rank!5. Announcement of Creation of Theatre Commands. A sound, matured and professionally competent leader would have first discussed the issue with three Service Chiefs in private, arrived at a consensus and then announced the proposed change. It is your crowning failure of leadership, which has resulted in full blown controversy appearing in public domain. Your arrogance has caused immeasurable damage to inter service harmony prevailing. What is worse is general public laughing all the way after witnessing in fighting within services caused by your intemperate attitude. You have failed miserably.6. You are yet to answer few elementary questions posed to you nearly two years back.When did any study ever recommend creation of Theatre Commands? KRC did not! Did you author a paper on the issue, duly circulated, vetted and approved or was it your reading of US Army prĂ©cis. Do you know a fundamental difference between USA and India; USA does not have a single km of hostile border. India has more than 10,000 km of hostile/not so friendly borders.Firstly, enumerate the specific incident/s under actual operational conditions wherein the existing command structure was found wanting for mounting an operation?Secondly, enumerate explicitly the deficiencies in the existing set up.
Thirdly, how would creation of theatre command ensure that existing deficiencies would be eliminated?Fourthly, is there a white paper enunciating the need for change from geographical commands to theatre commands?Fifthly, would these proponents of ‘STRATEGIC REVERSE ENGINEERING’, explicitly state the gains that would accrue because of their irrational proposal to replace the existing geographical commands with Theatre Commands?There are issues that did not feature during your interview. These are;7. OROP. OROP issue ignited when former Military personnel decided to go on aDHARNA. You were COAS. Before I go any further let me express and reiterate my view on OROP agitation, which is now more than 2000 days old. “The demand of former military personnel for OROP policy implementation as per Koshiyari Committee report duly approved by parliament is a perfectly legitimate demand. However deciding to agitate like trade unionist is an unbecoming conduct not expected from military personnel.” You have, however, neither mustered enough courage to face the soldiers you once commanded and convince them to abandon un-military like conduct of agitating as trade unionist nor convince the government to release OROP as recommended. You as COAS and now CDS have failed to break the OROP deadlock, your primary responsibility.
8. Inter-Service Exposure. From your numerous half baked utterances viz increasingretirement ages etc, it is quite evident that your knowledge of basics wrt HRmanagement is NIL. Usage of terms in respect of Air Force during interview viz „Air " Component Commander‟ etc is indicative of your almost NIL inter service exposure.Undergoing DSSC course and Higher Command course is not inter service exposure.Inter Service exposure implies having served with a different service formation and/or been on the teaching staff of defence institutions of higher learning viz DSSC/WAR COLLEGES.
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