Military Theaterisation in India: Is the Air Chief Right?

Editor’s Note

For over a month now, Indian military circles are busy in debating the necessity of creating joint commands or theatre commands as they are more popularly known, in the wake of Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh’s comments made at a tri-service conference about the futility in forming tri-service formation given a) lack of adequate resources with the IAF and b) the geographical expanse of India. You have read a series of opinion pieces on BharatShakti on this subject; here’s another, compiled by our team after speaking with veterans and serving officers. Read on:

The Indian Air Force Chief recently reignited the debate on theaterisation. His remarks were clearly made in the backdrop of Operation Sindoor , and the responses to these have trotted out