Defence Services Staff College
Sanskrit: Yuddham Pragya | |
Motto in English | To War with Wisdom |
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Type | Defence Service Training Institute |
Established | 1905Deolali) | (as the Army Staff College,
Commandant | Lieutenant General Virendra Vats, YSM SM VSM[1] |
Location | , |
Mascot | The Owl |
Website | DSSC homepage |
The Defence Services Staff College (DSSC) is a
It trains officers of all three services of the Indian Armed Forces – (Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air Force), selected officers from the Paramilitary forces and the Civil Services and officers from friendly foreign countries for command and staff appointments.
History
One of the oldest military institutions in
The first staff course started in April 1948, months after the move. The first course had 46 officers from the Indian Army and 2 each from the Indian Navy and Indian Air Force. Two officers from this course –
DSSC has been affiliated to
Crest and motto
The Staff College when at Quetta adopted the crest of Staff College, Camberley, which was the 'Wise Owl' with the Latin motto Tam Marte Quam Minerva. In 1964, Owl perched on crossed swords and the motto in Sanskrit Yuddham Pragya was adopted.[3]
Commandant
The commandant of the Defence Services Staff College is the head of the institution. The commandant is an army officer of the rank of lieutenant general.[5]
Organisation
The commandant of the college is assisted by the chief instructors (CI) of the army, naval and air wings, all
Notable alumni
Chiefs of Army Staff
- Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
- P. P. Kumaramangalam
- General Tapishwar Narain Raina
- General Om Prakash Malhotra
- General Arun Shridhar Vaidya
- General K. V. Krishna Rao
- General Krishnaswamy Sundarji
- General Vishwa Nath Sharma
- General Sunith Francis Rodrigues
- General Bipin Chandra Joshi
- General Shankar Roychowdhury
- General Ved Prakash Malik
- General Sundararajan Padmanabhan
- General Nirmal Chander Vij
- General J. J. Singh
- General Deepak Kapoor
- General V. K. Singh
- General Bikram Singh
- General Bipin Rawat
- General Manoj Mukund Naravane
- Admiral Ronald Lynsdale Pereira
- Admiral Oscar Stanley Dawson
- Admiral Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni
- Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat
- Admiral Sushil Kumar
- Admiral Madhvendra Singh
- Admiral Arun Prakash
- Admiral Sureesh Mehta
- Admiral Robin K. Dhowan
- Admiral Sunil Lanba
- Admiral Karambir Singh
Chiefs of Air Staff
- Air Chief Marshal Hrushikesh Moolgavkar
- Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif
- Air Chief Marshal Lakshman Madhav Katre
- Air Chief Marshal Surinder Mehra
- Air Chief Marshal S. K. Kaul
- Air Chief Marshal Satish Sareen
- Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis
- Air Chief Marshal Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy
- Air Chief Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi
- Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik
- Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha
- Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa
Foreign alumni
- Hans-Christoph Ammon, Head of German special forces
- Muhammadu Buhari, President and former military Head of State, Nigeria
- Olusegun Obasanjo, former Nigerian President
- GR – former President of Sri Lanka
- Major General Matheus Alueendo 7th Commander of the Namibian Army
- Admiral Basil Gunasekara, former commander of the Sri Lanka Navy
See also
- Pakistan Command and Staff College
- Indian National Defence University
- Military Academies in India
- Sainik school
References
- ^ "Commandant".
- ^ "DSSC History". DSSC.
- ^ a b "DEFENCE SERVICES STAFF COLLEGE TURNS GOLDEN" (PDF). archive.pib.gov.in. 16 April 1998.
- ^ "DSSC, Wellington – TIMELINE" (PDF). DSSC. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Organization". www.dssc.gov.in.