Wit Wisdom and Whoop

  The country on 8th December 2021 as the day progressed heard the horrifying news of a air crash on which the first and serving Chief of Defence Staff, a four star General Bipin Rawat and his Wife and other senior colleagues had died. In any country the death in an accident such as this of such a high ranking military officer would raise questions and hopefully the investigations would find the reasons for this tragedy. Senior political leaders from the Government and others have expressed their condolences but the extra anguish from the PMO was obvious. This was not an ordinary death and while every unexpected death hurts, life still moves on. But from the comments, looks of the powers that be indicated special challenges this would pose to whatever the Government, the Defence services had planned. However much plans may be committed to paper, a substantial thought process, planning, vision, ideas, etc that would have involved the CDS, PMO, RM, NSA would be lost and expecting t...