Professional application of ideas in achieving operational objectives

M S Nazki

‘Yoon Milaake Nazar, Karke Jaadugari, Deke Dard-E-Jigar, Aage Peechhe Dolkar, Soldier Soldier, Meetthi Baatein Bolkar, Dil Tu Chura Le Gaya’………..Any answers! We have them in the script! Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake and our Generals know that where the enemy is bound to make a wrong move! They have tried it many times but lost it out several times! Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. But our officers and men have the strength to do the impossible!-Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Our potent enemies believe in this philosophy!-Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. This is what our officers and men preach!-On the opposite side the officers and the men preach the doctrine of hatred and their clarion call is, listen to us because we are the books and we are the preachers of the books so you take the dictations!-Mind you it is still the Imagination that governs the world. Because if you want a thing done well, do it yourself!-There is a type of warfare in which the entire pattern is made up of a collection of lesser actions, but these lesser or individual actions are not sequentially interdependent.

Each individual one is no more than a single statistic, an isolated plus or minus, in arriving at the final result.”- ‘The war is a continuation of policy’ idea is the basis of a great deal of coordinated planning, with the foreign offices and the military departments putting their collective heads together at frequent and regular intervals.’-Shippers and logistics service providers impose multiple requirements on their transportation carriers regardless of the product shipped. These include low and predictable price; short and consistent travel times; high departure and arrival frequency; high equipment availability; accurate and damage-free delivery; and ease of doing business with the carriers. No”-The strategist should take up specific situations only after the requirement for provision of the spectrum of concepts has been met, and then only for one of two reasons.

The first is for the derivation of logistic and material needs.-The ultimate determinant in war is the man on the scene with the gun. This man is the final power in war. He is control. He determines who wins.-The incomplete vocabulary of strategy as an intellectual discipline limits the communication of the central concept of indirectness.

This concept, as it now stands, is formless!-If any two theories of strategy are not compatible, then neither of them is a valid general theory. Both of them have, somewhere in their structure, a limiting weakness; and these limitations should be uncovered and identified in order to forestall attempts to apply the theory in situations where it will not work, in situations where the underlying assumptions do not fit the realities of whatever actual situation may be at hand.-As we have noted before, it may well be necessary to defeat the enemy army. It may even be necessary to defeat it to the last remnant. But if we always saddle ourselves with the self-imposed restriction that we must, no matter what, defeat the enemy army in combat, then we have indeed denied to ourselves consideration of a vast span of actions that might more readily and easily achieve the needed measure of control.‘A soldier always sings to himself, ‘Zindagi Pyaar Ka Geet Hai, Ise Har Dil Ko Gana Parega’ – We cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves.Lt Gen ManojKumarKatiyar, PVSM, AVSM visited #PantherDivision. Key Operational, Logistics and Administrative aspects were deliberated upon with field commanders. ArmyCommander complimented all ranks for innovative & professional application of ideas in achieving operational objectives on Western Front.-Western Command (India)-Western Command is a Command-level formation of the Indian Army. It was formed in 1920. It was disbanded following its demotion to an independent district and eventual merge with Northern Command to form the North-western Army. It was re-raised in 1947 following the transfer of Northern Command HQ to Pakistan. Until 1972, it was responsible for India’s border with Pakistan in the North and West and the Chinese border in the North. The Command HQ is located at Chandimandir, Haryana, about 5 km east of Chandigarh.-Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar is the GOC-in-C: he took over on 1 July 2023.-Pre-Independence:The Presidency armies were abolished with effect from 1 April 1895 when the three Presidency armies of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras became the Indian Army. The Indian Army was divided into four Commands: Bengal Command, Bombay Command, Madras Command and Punjab Command, each under a lieutenant general.Between 1904 and 1908, the Bombay Command was renamed as the Western Command. In 1908, the four commands were merged into two Armies: Northern Army and Southern Army as recommended by then Commander-in-Chief, Indian Army Lord Kitchener. This system persisted until 1920 when the arrangement reverted to four commands again: Eastern Command, Northern Command, Southern Command and Western Command.In 1937, Western Command was downgraded to become the Western Independent District commanded by a major general. In April 1942, the Western Independent District was absorbed in the Northern Command which itself was re-designated as North Western Army.-Re-raisingAfter the partition of India, the erstwhile command HQ, Northern Command, went to Pakistan and was renamed as GHQ, Pakistan. The communal violence of partition necessitated the raising of a new command headquarters to relieve Army Headquarters of the day-to day overseeing of operations of the two independent areas in north India.This command, initially named Delhi and East Punjab Command, was raised in Delhi on 14 September 1947 with Lt Gen Sir Dudley Russell as its commander. It was responsible for administering the Delhi Independent Area and the East Punjab Independent Area.On 26 October 1947, following the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India, Western Command was put in charge of all Indian Army operations to secure the area for India.Initially a division sized force Jammu and Kashmir Division was raised on 5 November 1947 under Maj Gen Kulwant Singh for overseeing operations in Jammu and Kashmir. This was later split into two parts Jammu Division (under Maj Gen Atma Singh) and Srinagar Division (under Maj Gen K.S. Thimayya) to oversee operations in Jammu and Kashmir respectively.The II Corps (Ambala), IX Corps (Yol), XI Corps (Jalandhar) and 40th Artillery Division (Ambala) are control operational units in Western Command.-StructureCommand’s Area Of Responsibility (AOR) covers the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and parts of Jammu.-The Western Command has been assigned operational units:- II Corps, IX Corps, XI Corps and 40th Artillery Division. The command in total has the following units under its belt:- 6 infantry divisions, 1 armoured division, 1 artillery division, 1 Reorganised Army Plains Infantry Division (RAPID), 3 armoured brigades, 1 mechanized brigade, 1 Air-defence brigade, and 1 engineering brigade.