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NEW DELHI: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday called for a three-pronged approach to deter terrorism. According to General Chauhan, who was speaking at an IIT Bombay event, India must prepare itself for short but intense conflicts, longer land-centric conflicts, and create an “asymmetry with the weaker adversary,” a reference to…
NEW DELHI: Chief of defence staff General Anil Chauhan said on Monday that India must be prepared to fight both short duration, high intensity conflicts to deter terrorism and long duration wars due to territorial disputes with its neighbours. Speaking at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Gen Chauhan said the country faces a complex…
NEW DELHI: Flagging concerns that Indian arms companies were failing to deliver emergency procurements on time and that some of them were even inflating the extent of indigenous content in their products, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan has said the armed forces expect “a bit of nationalism and patriotism” in industry’s “profit-driven endeavours”.“Defence…
NEW DELHI: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Monday warned that India cannot tolerate even the threat of a nuclear attack, recalling Operation Sindoor, which he said proved that Pakistan’s assumptions about its nuclear capability were wrong.“The country cannot tolerate even the threat of a nuclear attack. Pakistan thought it could do…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday expressed doubt over Operation Sindoor, saying “something is fishy” and raised questions alleging conflicting statements from top defence officials. Talking to reporters, Congress leader Ajay Rai said, “The CDS says something, the Army Chief says something else, and different people give different statements in completely different ways. This clearly indicates…
(CDS) General Anil Chauhan NEW DELHI: Chief of defence staff (CDS) general Anil Chauhan on Tuesday shed light on the need for India to be prepared against bio-threats and radiological contamination from nuclear weapons in the future.Speaking at the Scientific Session on the 100th Raising Day of the Military Nursing Service (MNS) at the Manekshaw…
NEW DELHI: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said that the use of Air Force during the 1962 Sino-Indian war “would have slowed Chinese offensive considerably.” However, he added that it would have been considered “escalatory” in nature at that time, which wasn’t the case during Operation Sindoor. “They would have had a significant…
NEW DELHI: A little over four months after India conducted deep precision strikes against Pakistan under Operation Sindoor, the govt has approved General Anil Chauhan’s extension of service as the Chief of Defence Staff and secretary of the Department of Military Affairs till May 30 next year when he turns 65. Gen Chauhan, who was…
RANCHI: Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Thursday said Operation Sindoor heralded a “new kind of warfare” driven by technology, in which India decisively beat Pakistan in every escalation, reports Sanjay Sahay.Interacting with schoolchildren in Jharkhand on the theme ‘Operation Sindoor: Bacchon Se Samvad (dialogue with children)’ in Ranchi, Gen Chauhan said…
