{"id":455371,"date":"2021-12-10T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455371"},"modified":"2021-12-10T09:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T04:23:33","slug":"brigadier-killed-in-iaf-chopper-crash-was-set-for-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/brigadier-killed-in-iaf-chopper-crash-was-set-for-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Brigadier killed in IAF chopper crash was set for promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the armed forces personnel killed in the chopper crash near Coonoor was Brigadier Lakhwinder Singh Lidder, a decorated soldier who worked extensively on tri-services reforms as the defence assistant to CDS General Bipin Rawat.<\/p>\n<p>A second-generation Army officer, Brig Lidder was set to be promoted as Major General soon and was preparing for his next posting after serving as a key member in Gen Rawat&#8217;s team for more than a year. <\/p>\n<p>Brig Lidder served extensively in counter-terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir and commanded a brigade along India&#8217;s borders with China. <\/p>\n<p>As the defence assistant to Gen Rawat, Brig Lidder played an important role in planning India&#8217;s higher defence reforms under which an ambitious roadmap has been drawn to roll out tri-services theatre commands to ensure greater coordination among the Army,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the armed forces personnel killed in the chopper crash near Coonoor was Brigadier Lakhwinder Singh Lidder, a decorated soldier who worked extensively on tri-services reforms as the defence assistant to CDS General Bipin Rawat. A second-generation Army officer, Brig Lidder was set to be promoted as Major General soon and was preparing for his next posting after serving as a key member in Gen Rawat&#8217;s team for more than a year. Brig Lidder served extensively in counter-terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir and commanded a brigade along India&#8217;s borders with China. As the defence assistant to Gen Rawat, Brig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}