This is an era of exponential growth especially in technologies. Air Forces are the most technology intensive fighting arms. An ideal Air Force would constantly embrace and adopt new technologies to retain it’s cutting edge and all dominant status in battle space. Failure to do so may spell it’s doom when faced with more current Air Force. Along with new technology there is a need to reorganise many aspects in the organisation. These include, but are not limited to, command and control setup, inter-service integration, HR function, organisational culture and attitude etc etc. This study focuses on the reorganisation already due and suggests ideas for the future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A K Tiwary
Air Vice Marshal A.K. Tiwary, VSM was commissioned in the Indian Air Force (IAF) as a fighter pilot. He served as a ground based Forward Air Controller During the 1971 Indo-Pak conflict. His flying hours, over 4100, are mostly on Russian fighters and include about 2000 hours of instructional flying. He commanded a MiG-29 Squadron in late 1980s. His command and staff appointments like Chief Operations Officer at a major Wing, operational planning at command level, Director Concept Studies at Air Headquarters, Command of a major flying base, head of the Training Team (Air) at Defence Services Staff College and Senior Directing Staff (Air) at National Defence College, have conferred a rich practical experience. The air staff course at Defence Services Staff College Wellington (TN), instructional tenure at the College of Air Warfare Secunderabad, National Defence College New Delhi and Air War Course at the Air University, Maxwell Airbase, Montgomery (USA), all inducted and accelerated his interest in air war studies. He has published many articles in military journals in India and authored two books titled, Attrition in air Warfare and Air Power and Counter Insurgency. Presently he is serving as Air Defence Commander at the prestigious HQ Western Air Command of the IAF. He was awarded the Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee Chair by the United Service Institution of India, for the year, 2004-2005, to carry out research on Aerospace Defence: A Holistic Appraisal.
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