About the Speaker

General Anil Chauhan is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasala. He was commissioned into the Sixth Battalion, the Eleventh Gorkha Rifles in Jun 1981, from the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. He has vast experience in operations across a wide spectrum of conflict and terrain
profiles. He commanded an Infantry Battalion, along the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir, a Mountain Brigade in Manipur, an Infantry Division in the Kashmir Valley and a Corps in the North East. He was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command from 01 September 2019 to 31 May 2021.

After his retirement from active military service, the General served as a Military Advisor to the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) from 20 October 2021 to 29 September 2022. A graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, the Army War College and the National Defence College, the
General has tenanted important staff and instructional assignments which include an instructional tenure at HQ IMTRAT, Bhutan, Military Observer on a UN Mission to Angola, General Staff Officer 1 (Operations) of the Mountain Division, Director, Perspective & Planning (TAS) at Army HQ, Chief of Staff, HQ 15 Corps and Director General of Discipline Ceremonial & Welfare.

Academically inclined, the General has authored two books, namely, ‘Aftermath of a Nuclear Attack’, and ‘History of 11 Gorkha Rifles Regimental Centre’, and has also supervised the writing of the history of 19 Infantry Division. Currently, he is working on a book on the Military Geography of India’s Northern Borders. He was awarded an M. Phil degree in Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras in 2012. The General officer assumed the appointment of the Chief of Defence Staff on 30 Sep 2022.