Indian Air Force And Integration Of Armed Forces

Description

The book is a diligent and painstaking effort to document the challenge of Integrating the Armed Forces. The author gives us deep insights into the issues at hand and analyses the way ahead with panache. A must read. It will help to propel the journey of the Indian Defence Establishment to jointness and beyond combat integration, cross-pollination and ultimately to dissolution of all silos: complete civil-military fusion.

— Lieutenant General Raj Shukla PVSM YSM SM (Retd)
Member UPSC and Former GOC-in-C Army Training Command

A seminal work on the much needed integration of the Indian Armed Forces. Must read for all those in uniform.

— Air Vice Marshal Anil Golani (Retd)
Additional Director General,
Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi

A useful addition to the military literature on jointness and integration. One hopes the Services do transition from the situation where “my shibboleths hold more water than yours” to “let’s get over our own shibboleths.”

— Rear Admiral Sudarshan Shrikhande AVSM (Retd)
Adjunct Faculty, Naval War College and Editor-in-Chief, Indian Naval Despatch

This study, now available as a book, is an extremely valuable addition to the current debate and discussion around the plans in the Indian military to achieve jointness, integration and achieving the ultimate aim of joint theatres. Although an Air Force officer, the author has managed to take on board viewpoints that the Army and the Navy have on the path to theaterisation. A must-read for students of military planning and future wars.