The Armoured General: Why India’s New Army Chief Signals More Than A Change In Rank
A TANK COMMANDER AT THE TOP The year was 1997, the last time an officer from the Indian Army’s Armoured Corps stood at the apex of the service. General Shankar Roy Chowdhury had just retired. The world was a different place with no drones, no precision-guided munitions, no cyber warfare doctrine. 29 years later, on…