Decklander
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Pivot corps were formed under Sunderji Doctrine of RAPIDs, Reorganised Army Plain Infantary Divisions. It is a very old concept. After 26/11, this was found wanting as GOI wanted Indian armed forces to go into attack and IA asked for three weeks to do so. This was in works from the time when Parliament attack took place, that time too Atalji wanted to dismember Pakistan for the backstabbing which they did in Kargil. But long mobilisation time for our strike corps plus short mobilisation time for PA, stopped it in its tracks. As I stated that PA has offensive defensive deployment with very short distance for its reserves to move to their battle locations. They have very few reserves, IA decided to take advantage of it and also go into offensive defensive deployment like PA. But that needs reorganising the whole infrastruture and logistics as it involves complete change of battle doctrine. That is what IA/IAF/IN are now doing.This is where the confusion lies. The majority of earlier articles and reports on CSD i.e. Pre 2010, claim that the strike corps would be disintegrated into the IBGs. Note that until then there was no concept of pivot corps.
Only after the introduction of the pivot corps, and subsequent denial of existence of CSD itself, did reports of IBGs being formed from pivot corps emerge.
This clearly outlines that a change in doctrine was effected midway. The final implementation is as per Decklander, but the intial plans werent this.
The day GOI presses go button, IN will be first off followed by IAF and IA.