NEW DELHI: India lost its first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)—General Bipin Rawat— to an air crash today. The helicopter carrying the General, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 12 others to the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington crashed minutes before it was to touch down. Twelve others on board lost their lives as well. Group Captain Varun Singh has been hospitalised. StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale remembers Gen. Rawat, India’s longest serving four-star general.
