CDS Chauhan said the tri-services will tackle all challenges together!
On Friday, 30 September 2022, General Anil Chauhan took charge as India's new Chief of Defense Staff, said the tri-services will tackle all the challenges and difficulties together.
CDS General Anil Chauhan, a former Eastern Army Commander, took charge as the country's senior-most military commander over nine months after the first Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat, died in a chopper crash in Tamil Nadu.
"I will try to fulfil the expectations of the three services with all my efforts. We will tackle all challenges and difficulties together," said General Chauhan, who has been tasked with a mandate to implement the ambitious theorization plan that seeks to ensure tri-service synergy and prepare the military for future security challenges.
As per the theorization plan, each of the theatre commands will have units of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, and all of them will work as a single entity looking after security challenges in a specified geographical territory under an operational commander.
CDS Chauhan had retired from service on May 31 of last year, where he was serving as the Eastern Army Commander. After his retirement, he served as the military adviser to the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), headed by National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval.
Before assuming charge of the CDS, General Chauhan paid tributes to India's fallen soldiers at the National War Memorial in the India Gate complex.
He was also accorded a tri-service guard of honor on the lawns of the South Block in the Raisina Hills.
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