Gen Bipin Rawat named first Chief of Defence Staff I Why Modi govt's CDS is a big defence reform?

Описание: India gets a first Chief of Defence Staff? Gen Bipin Rawat has been named India's first Chief of Defence Staff. Why was the CDS needed?
1. CDS can drive jointness and synergy among the three armed forces.
Explained: Jointness brings the three armed forces under one umbrella effectively integrating silos functioning separately. A joint force is a model fourth generation structure fielded by advanced militaries as the United States, UK and France with Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) rapidly following by establishing Military Area Commands in place of Military Regions.
Indian Armed Forces today are woefully short of integration much less jointness. Thus while the three services HQs are nominally Integrated HQs of Ministry of Defence Army, Navy and Air Force as the case may be, the single joint HQs, HQ Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) remains stunted with functions restricted to coordination of disaster management. Services continue to operate their own schools of instructions, conduct exercises and prepare for war under the respective Chiefs.
At the theater level where maximum coordination is essential, there is frequent interaction but level of jointness achieved is an unknown factor. More over sheer difference in location of HQs militates against jointness. For instance HQs Eastern Command of the Indian Army and the Air Force responsible for the all important China border are located in Kolkata and Shillong respectively.
Given stiff resistance to jointness amongst the services, it is well established that jointness is achieved either through an Act of Parliament or the bitter experience of systems dysfunction in war.
Jointness can achieve economy and efficiency through synergy of resources, it will overcome the budgetary constraints that are inevitable in the armed forces in the future, more importantly it will also come through an act of parliament.
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The Chief of Defence Staff will be looked up by the leadership as the epitome of jointness for by the armed forces and with his charter being synergy between services, the move will get a fillip.