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Auchinleck continued as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army after the end of the war [83] helping, though much against his own convictions, to prepare the future Indian and Pakistani armies for the Partition of India: in November 1945 he was forced to commute the more serious judicial sentences awarded against officers of the Indian National ...
Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Strategy) Lieutenant General: Pratik Sharma PVSM, AVSM, SM [12] Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Information Systems and Coordination) Rakesh Kapoor AVSM, VSM [13] Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Capability Development and Sustenance) Rahul R Singh AVSM, VSM [14] Adjutant General: VPS Kaushik UYSM, YSM, SM [15] Military ...
It is the brainchild of General Krishnaswamy Sundarji (28 April 1930 – 8 February 1999), who was the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1986 to 1988. During the late 70s, as part of Indian Army modernisation, there was an urgent need to re-calibrate the Indian Mechanised Forces, which led to the forming of Mechanised Infantry units ...
The position's initial roots finds its origins in the 18th century, when the East India Company (EIC) - a British-origin trade establishment and the then-de facto administrative organization of the Indian subcontinent, established the position of Commander-in-Chief, India (C-in-C) in 1748 to head its three Presidency Armies, namely the Bengal ...
Indian Army soldier from White Knight Corps, 2021. The Indian Army has also embarked on an infantry modernisation programme known as Futuristic Infantry Soldier As a System . The infantry soldiers will be equipped with modular weapon systems that will have multiple functions. The core systems include bullet proof helmet and visor.
Senior Indian Army officers were reluctant to execute an aggressive invasion for fears of early ceasefire demands by the United Nations and a looming threat posed by China. [13] That, together with the difficulty of navigating the marshy terrain of East Pakistan through three wide rivers, led the commanders to initially believe that the capture ...
Upendra Dwivedi (born 1 July 1964) is a serving four star general officer of the Indian Army.He is the current and 30th Chief of the Army Staff. [5] [6] He took over as the 30th COAS succeeding General Manoj Pande on 30 June 2024. [7]
After a very brief interval as Governor of Natal and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Transvaal Province and High Commissioner for South Eastern Africa with effect from 7 March 1881, [25] Roberts, having become a baronet on 11 June 1881, [26] was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army on 16 November 1881. [27]