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Indian Army Ensign India has the third largest army in the world after China and the United States.

Motto of Indian Army The safety, honour and welfare of your country.

Indian Army Day marks a day to salute the valiant soldiers who sacrificed their lives to protect our country and the people living in it. The day is celebrated on January 15th every year. On this day in 1948, Lieutenant General K. M. Cariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief.

Indian Army has 6 Operational Commands. In addition to the Operational Commands Indian Army also has a Training Command located at Shimla. These commands are directly affiliated to the Army HQ in New Delhi. Each command is headed by General Officer Commanding-in-Chief with the rank of Lieutenant General. Headquarters, Indian Army, New Delhi

 The army has following commands-:

The Western Army Command (Headquarters at Chandigarh). The Eastern Army Command (Head quarters at Kolkata). The Southern Army Command (Headquarters at Pune). The Northern Army Command (Headquarters at Udhampur). The central Army Command (Headquarters at Lucknow).

The South western Army command (Headquarters at Jaipur). Army Training Command (Headquarters at Shimla).

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1.Sam Manekshaw (Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw)-: also known as Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was an Indian military leader who was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.

TILL NOW THERE WERE TWO FIELD MARSHAL MADE.

On 27 June 2008, Field Marshal Sam Bahadur died in Military Hospital in Wellington, Tamil Nadu.

2.Gen. K.M. Cariappa (Kodandera Madappa Cariappa Gen. K.M. Cariappa was appointed to this rank in1986, more than thirty years after his retirement from the Indian Army. He was a member of the Army Sub Committee of the Forces Reconstitution Committee, which divided the British Indian Army into the Indian and Pakistani Armies after the Partition of India in 1947. Led the Indian forces in Kashmir during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 On 15 May 1993, Field Marshal Cariappa died in Bangalore.

General Bikram Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC is the current Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army (CoAS). Previously the head of the Eastern Command, he became the 27th CoAS succeeding General V. K. Singh, who retired on 31 May 2012. He is second Sikh to be CoAS, the first having been General J. J. Singh.

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First Kashmir War (1947) Inclusion of Hyderabad (1948) Medical assistance during Korean War (19501953) Liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu (1961) Sino-Indian War (1962) Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Sino Conflict of 1967 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Siachen conflict (1984) Counter-insurgency activities Kargil conflict (1999) United Nations peacekeeping missions