‘Differences over joint structures to be solved’

Chief of defence staff General Anil Chauhan on Wednesday said there may be a certain degree of dissonance among the three services over theaterisation —a long-awaited military reform for the best use of the military's resources to fight future wars — but alternative points of view were being heard without temperatures rising.

- Rahul Singh

The differences, he said, would be resolved.

“T can say with some confidence that we can speak about our differences in a very conducive environment...with openness and patience hear different and alternative points of view without temperatures rising,” Chauhan said on the concluding day of Ran Samwad — a top military conclave held at the Army War College in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh.

Speaking at the first edition of the tri-services conclave, navy chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi said theaterisation was “the ultimate goal”.