India created the post of chief of defense staff in 2019 to achieve what its military had long lacked: genuine jointness among the Army, Navy and Air Force.
The CDS was as the principal military adviser to the government, improve interoperability among the services and push through long-delayed reforms such as integrated theater commands.
Yet less than a decade later, the institution is being weakened by the very government that created it.
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