InFocus - Theatre Commands
CLAMOUR FOR THEATRE COMMANDS IS A PEACETIME PHENOMENON Air Marshal Vinod Patney (Ret'd), former Vice Chief of Air Staff 08 May 2017: It is uncanny how so many consider Theatre Commands an inescapable necessity during peacetime but can quote no incident where, in independent India, the absence of such an organisation has impeded the prosecution of any war....read more
THE UNACCEPTABLE IDEA OF THEATRE COMMANDS Gp Capt Anant Bewoor (Ret’d) 07 August 2018: There are adequate examples of how Theatre Commands will not work, these are from operations / exercises by Indian Armed Forces. If each Theatre is to be independent and self-sufficient...Read more
THEATRE COMMANDS - THE INDIAN CONTEXT Air Marshal Narayan Menon (Ret'd) 20 August 2018: There have been media reports about the Indian military reorganizing itself into integrated 'theatre commands' as opposed to the current system of ' individual service regional commands'....Read more
WHY THEATRE COMMANDS IS AN UNNECESSARY IDEA Air Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy (Ret'd) 20 August 2018: There have been murmurs of a debate in recent days about the idea of forming three integrated military Theatre Commands, covering the Northern, Eastern and Southern territory,...Read more
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