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HQ IDS was to be merged with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on establishment but before then Defence Minister George Fernandes could do so the deep-state falsely implicated him in the ‘Coffingate’ knowing he would step down. By Prakash Katoch, When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the establishment of a CDS, it was to usher in true military jointness. But we have a ‘monkey’ as the bureaucracy that revels in the cat-fights amongst the three services. This monkey slyly inserted a line in the CCS note for establishing HQ Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) that read: “As and when the CDS...
