Indian Military theatre command push: Shishir Gupta explains

Point Blank takes a hard look at India’s unfinished theatre command overhaul, from General Bipin Rawat’s original vision to General Anil Chauhan’s report and now General R. Subramani’s mandate to actually deliver. Shishir Gupta lays out why merging three service “fiefdoms” into China, Pakistan and Maritime theatres is so complex, how rank and hierarchy politics shape the CDS’s clout, and why real jointness and Atmanirbhar Bharat will only come when the services and bureaucracy finally shed their colonial mindset and let private industry into the core of India’s defence build‑up.