State of the Union: Supersession - All have right to ask questions
As the newsbreak flashed across television screens last Saturday evening, December 17, that the Indian Army and the Air Force would have new Chiefs, Lt. Gen. Bipin Rawat and Air Marshal B.S. Lt. Gen. Ike Singha put out a Facebook post entitled “Surgical strike on the Indian Army”, where he critiqued the rationale of the government. Lt. Gen. Panag in a piece concludes with the following advice to the government: “Last but not the least, to partially undo the damage done to the Indian Army, the government should make use of the two eminent, superseded generals either in the proposed higher defence management structure or at any other appropriate level. During a discussion I had with two cerebral military intellectuals — Gen. Raghavan and Air Vice Marshal Kak, the three of us discussed the pros and cons of selecting a service chief on the basis of seniority, as was the norm vis-à-vis an open-ended selection from the C’s-in-C. After weighing the issue with great deliberation, we came to the conclusion that there were more negatives in the latter, as chances of selection based on political, sycophantic and non-professional reasons may become predominant in due course, with professional and character qualities being sacrificed on account of extraneous issues.
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