{"id":318396,"date":"2019-12-30T12:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318396"},"modified":"2019-12-30T12:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T12:05:25","slug":"general-bipin-rawat-named-indias-first-chief-of-defence-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/general-bipin-rawat-named-indias-first-chief-of-defence-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"General Bipin Rawat named India&#8217;s first Chief of Defence Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318222 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat.jpg 673w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat-553x420.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>Outgoing Army chief General Bipin Rawat has been named as India&#8217;s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">General Rawat was named CDS, a day before he was to retire as the Chief of Army Staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Chief of Defence Staff will serve as the Principal Military Adviser to the Defence Minister on all matters concerning the tri-services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The CDS would create synergy in operations and finances for all three-armed forces. General Rawat is the first officer to hold the post of the CDS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The recommendation to appoint a Chief of Defence Staff was first made by a high-level committee that examined the military&#8217;s performance during the 1999 Kargil conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Army chief General Bipin Rawat has been named as India&#8217;s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). General Rawat was named CDS, a day before he was to retire as the Chief of Army Staff. A Chief of Defence Staff will serve as the Principal Military Adviser to the Defence Minister on all matters concerning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[664,11748],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318398,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318396\/revisions\/318398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}