The idea of a fully connected and coordinated army led by a single theatre commander sounds like a pipe dream at this point. For many years, the Army, IAF, and Navy have developed as distinct verticals with few horizontal ties. As a result, each has its own operations, logistics, communication networks, training, support services, and human resource policies. It has amounted to a threefold increase in costs and work.
Source: Tribune India
At each of the 18 regional commands, where the armed forces are deployed, separate tactics are implemented by separate commanders. At the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where the Army, Navy, and Air Force assets are combined under a Lt. General-rank officer, there is only one operational unified command.
The administration has established a goal of achieving seamless integration across the various branches of the armed forces. The conventional land-air-sea silos are the foundation of Indian military organisation. A combination of land, air, and sea capabilities as well as intelligence, cyber, and space assets are required for modern warfare. Rearranging current command structures or perhaps rewriting the entire system is a significant obstacle to integration.
In order to overcome operational difficulties, accomplish triservice coordination, and have interoperability for managing logistics, structural adjustments must be implemented. In order to begin integrating logistics, support systems, transportation, and communication before going on to the actual integration of the troops, the government has now ordered the CDS to take a bottom-up approach.
Source: Strat News Global
A difficult goal, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015, is to modernise and expand the military at the same time. In 2018, he urged the troops to achieve integration and jointness in operations when speaking to the combined commanders’ conference. To develop combined forces, as the US and China have done, the forces must demonstrate their intent and dismantle their silos.
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