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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
General Bikram Singh took over as the chief of army staff (COAS) on May 31 under extraordinary circumstances. His predecessor, General V.K. Singh took exceedingly much from the army as its chief than he gave back to it. He publicly pitted the army against the government and took the latter to court on the issue of his age for which he alone was responsible. More than blaming a few senior officers for wrongdoings, he floated the impression that most of the officer class had gone to the pits. Towards the fag end of his tenure, he informed the nation that the army lagged behind in terms of modernisation, something he should have done at the beginning of his innings. He gave so many insinuating media interviews that he sounded like a stuck record. While certainly an upright officer, he used the institution to exhaustion. So much so, that it would be long before the army recovers enough to look normal.
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