India’s higher defence management is in urgent need of meaningful reform, and the process started by the KRC report must be taken to its logical conclusion. If any changes are at all contemplated in the MoD, their sole aim must be to bring the Services inside the ministry, and any alterations in the status of functionaries must be undertaken with even-handedness, preferably after a CDS has been put in place.
The writer is a former chief of naval staff and was chairman of the Chiefs of Staff
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