The South Western Command of the

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was established on 15 April 2005 and became fully operational on 15 August 2005.Renaldi and Rikhye 2011, 21 It was established in response to the emerging threats and opportunities on the Western Indo-Pak border, and is headquartered at

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. The command's operational unit,

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, transferred from Western Command and from an Artillery Division.

Structure

Currently, the Western Command has been assigned operational units under:-

and 42nd Artillery Division. The command in total has following units under its belt :- 3

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(1 for Mountain warfare), 1

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, 1

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division, 2 Reorganised Army Plains Infantry Division (RAPID), 1

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, 1 Air-defence brigade, and 1 engineering brigade. In 2021, except the 33 Armoured Division all the units of I Corps was transferred to Northern Command to focus on the Sino-Indian border at Ladakh.

List of Commanders

Notes

References

*Richard A. Renaldi and Ravi Rikhe, 'Indian Army Order of Battle,' Orbat.com for Tiger Lily Books: A division of General Data LLC, , 2011. Commands of the Indian Army Military units and formations established in 2005 2005 establishments in Rajasthan Long stubs with short prose {{India-mil-stub