Harsha Kakar The announcement of a CDS by the Government was a welcome step after over seventy years of inaction. It was the distrust between the polity and the armed forces at the time of independence and incidents in Pakistan of the army taking over the country, which compelled the first Indian Government to change the system of higher defence management, recommended by Lord Ismay at the time of independence,and make three services independent of each other, pushing them away … Continue reading Challenges before CDS