Air and Maritime joint commands to come up by May: report

India is set to begin a formal roll-out of its long-awaited theaterisation plan to best utilise its military’s resources. The Hindustan Times has reported that the Air Defence Command and the Maritime Theatre Command are set to be launched by May.

The Air Defence Command, which will come up in Prayagraj, will be the first to be set up in April. It will control the air defence resources of all the three services. The Maritime Theatre Command, to be headquartered in Karwar on the west coast, will come up the following month and be responsible for securing India from seaborne threats and will have army and air force elements under it.

The commands are being set up in the backdrop of border tensions with China on the Line of Actual Control and Pakistani hostility along the Line of Control, and at a time when India is demonstrating a muscular stance in the Indo-Pacific region.