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Indian order of battle during the
2020–2021 China–India skirmishes :
Political leadership
Indian Armed Forces
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS):
Indian Army
Chief of the Army Staff (COAS): Gen.
Manoj Mukund Naravane
Northern Command (Lt-Gen.
Yogesh Kumar Joshi , GOC-in-C)
XIV Corps (Fire and Fury Corps) (Lt-Gen.
Harinder Singh to 13 October 2020; Lt-Gen. P.G.K. Menon from 13 October 2020, GOC)
[1]
3rd Infantry (Trishul) Division (Maj-Gen. Abhijit Bapat, GOC)
[2]
81 Infantry Brigade
[3]
[4]
114 Infantry Brigade (Patrolling Point 15)
[3]
[7]
70 Infantry Brigade (Eastern Ladakh)
[8]
Elements of
I Corps (Strike Corps) transferred from South-Western Command
[9]
Individual soldiers and larger elements of the following regiments under Northern Command stationed in Ladakh in 2020–2021 (mentioned for service during Operation Snow Leopard):
[6]
Western Command (Lt-Gen.
Ravendra Pal Singh , GOC-in-C)
9 Corps (reserve brigades deployed) (Lt-Gen. Upendra Dwivedi to 26 March 2021; Lt-Gen. P.N. Ananthanarayanan from March 2021, GOC)
[7]
[10]
[11]
Eastern Command (Lt-Gen.
Anil Chauhan to 31 May 2021; Lt-Gen.
Manoj Pande from 1 June 2021)
[12]
[13]
IV Corps (training brigades deployed) (Lt-Gen. Shantanu Dayal to 26 January 2021; Lt-Gen. Ravin Khosla from January 2021, GOC)
[7]
[14]
XXXIII Corps (training brigades deployed) (Lt-Gen.
Nav Kumar Khanduri to 13 September 2020; Lt-Gen. A.K. Singh from 14 September 2020, GOC)
[7]
[15]
[16]
Indian Navy
Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS): Adm.
Karambir Singh
Western Naval Command (VAdm.
Ajit Kumar P to 28 February 2021, FOC-in-C)
[17]
Indian Air Force
Chief of the Air Staff (CAS): ACM
R. K. S. Bhadauria to 30 September 2021; ACM
Vivek Ram Chaudhari from 30 September 2021
[20]
Western Air Command (AM
Balakrishnan Suresh to 31 July 2020;
[21] AM Vivek Ram Chaudhari to 30 June 2021;
[22] AM
Balabhadra Radha Krishna from 1 July 2021;
[23] AM
Amit Dev from 1 October 2021
[24]
AOC Jammu & Kashmir (AVM P. M. Sinha)
[25]
AOC Leh (ACmde Subroto Kundu)
[26]
Indo-Tibetan Border Police
DG
Surjeet Singh Deswal
North-West Frontier HQ (IG Deepam Seth)
[27]
Leh Sector (DIG)
[28]
Leh (SSP Sargun Shukla)
[26]
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