Armed forces battling shortage of officers
12-Mar-2019
by Mohinder Pal Singh
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There are no surplus or spare officers in any unit. Whenever there is a war, we have see only two types of knee-jerk reactions in making up for deficiency of officers. One, commisioning before the completion of training; and two, emergency commision, which means a full-scale drive to select additional officers and put them through training.