The primary purpose of appointing commander defence forces CDF is to activate a cohesive and multidimensional defence strategy as per changing character of warfare, in which land strategy maintains imminence in Pakistan’s context
In Pakistan the land strategy holds primacy and remains the core of our defence policy due to the perpetual threat from the Hindutva driven India and its Akhand Bharat fallacy as well as more than two decades old war against Khawarij and Indian sponsored and Afghan Taliban abetted terrorism from the west; therefore, land responses play a central role in all security affairs.
With the fast advent of multi domain parallel operations in land, sea, air, space, cyber and information spheres a unified and operational command vested with requisite authority and planning / implementation faculties is quintessential instead of current committee system. Hence the necessity of CDF with the office of Army Chief to act as the pivot around which this synergetic response strategy and its foundations including development strategy are laid.
Beyond general defence, there is a need of synergy and efficiency/ cutting down on parallel functions like logistical, infrastructural, and support requirements, where possible to make the armed forces more effective and optimized.
The appointment of a CDF is therefore a necessity in line with all other modern forces and a step long overdue to meet challenges of contemporary warfare.
While, appointment of a separate commander of strategic forces is not a matter of public debate and preferably should not be bought into public discourse, however, all countries having such capabilities have such structures. Pakistan by taking this step is further strengthening the robustness of its commons and control as well as making development strategy more synergetic and effective.
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