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class="infobox-data"><i>To War with Wisdom</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_security" title="National security">Defence Service</a> Training Institute</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Established</th><td class="infobox-data">August 1947<span class="noprint">; 77 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">August 1947</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Commandant_of_the_Defence_Services_Staff_College" title="Commandant of the Defence Services Staff College">Commandant</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_general_(India)" title="Lieutenant general (India)">Lieutenant General</a> <a href="/wiki/Virendra_Vats" title="Virendra Vats">Virendra Vats</a>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Yudh_Seva_Medal" title="Yudh Seva Medal">YSM</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Sena_Medal" title="Sena Medal">SM</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Vishisht_Seva_Medal" title="Vishisht Seva Medal">VSM</a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div style="display:inline" class="locality"><a href="/wiki/Wellington_Cantonment" title="Wellington Cantonment">Wellington Cantonment</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nilgiris_district" title="Nilgiris district">Nilgiris district</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a></div>, <div style="display:inline" class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a></div><br /><span 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.infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:250px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:India_Tamil_Nadu_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Defence Services Staff College is located in Tamil Nadu"><img alt="Defence Services Staff College is located in Tamil Nadu" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/India_Tamil_Nadu_location_map.svg/250px-India_Tamil_Nadu_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="310" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/India_Tamil_Nadu_location_map.svg/375px-India_Tamil_Nadu_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, 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Nadu</span></div></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238443738" /><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:250px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:250px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:250px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:India_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Defence Services Staff College is located in India"><img alt="Defence Services Staff College is located in India" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/India_location_map.svg/250px-India_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/India_location_map.svg/375px-India_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/India_location_map.svg/500px-India_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1615" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:80.42%;left:30.599%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Defence Services Staff College"><img alt="Defence Services Staff College" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Defence Services Staff College (India)</div><span class="switcher-label" style="display:none">Show map of India</span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>The Defence Services Staff College</b> (<b>DSSC</b>) is a <a href="/wiki/Defense_(military)" class="mw-redirect" title="Defense (military)">defence service</a> training institution of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(India)" title="Ministry of Defence (India)">Ministry of Defence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a>. </p><p>It trains officers of all three services of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Armed_Forces" title="Indian Armed Forces">Indian Armed Forces</a> – (<a href="/wiki/Indian_Army" title="Indian Army">Indian Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indian_Navy" title="Indian Navy">Indian Navy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indian_Air_Force" title="Indian Air Force">Indian Air Force</a>), selected officers from the <a href="/wiki/Paramilitary_forces_of_India" title="Paramilitary forces of India">Paramilitary forces</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Services_of_India" title="Civil Services of India">Civil Services</a> and officers from friendly foreign countries for command and staff appointments. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defence_Services_Staff_College&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Defence Services Staff College, one of India's oldest military institutions, was established following the <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Partition of British India">Partition of British India</a> in August 1947. During the partition, Pakistan inherited the <a href="/wiki/Staff_College,_Quetta" class="mw-redirect" title="Staff College, Quetta">Staff College, Quetta</a>, originally founded in 1905 at <a href="/wiki/Deolali" title="Deolali">Deolali</a> before relocating to <a href="/wiki/Quetta" title="Quetta">Quetta</a> in 1907. </p><p>The Indian elements of the Staff College, Quetta led by the senior-most Indian Army instructor <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(India)" title="Colonel (India)">Colonel</a> S. D. Verma moved to India. Verma was promoted <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_(India)" title="Brigadier (India)">brigadier</a> and appointed as the first commandant and chose <a href="/wiki/Wellington_Cantonment" title="Wellington Cantonment">Wellington Cantonment</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Nilgiris_District" class="mw-redirect" title="The Nilgiris District">The Nilgiris District</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a> as the location of the Staff College in India.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 – <a href="/wiki/Major_(rank)" title="Major (rank)">Major</a> <a href="/wiki/Tapishwar_Narain_Raina" title="Tapishwar Narain Raina">Tapishwar Narain Raina</a> and <a href="/wiki/Squadron_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Squadron Leader">Squadron Leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Hrushikesh_Moolgavkar" title="Hrushikesh Moolgavkar">Hrushikesh Moolgavkar</a> went on to head their services as the Chiefs. The air wing was established in 1949 and the Naval Wing in 1950 and the college was rechristened <i>Defence Services Staff College</i>. The college threw open its gates to officers from friendly foreign countries from the fifth course and to <a href="/wiki/Civil_Services_of_India" title="Civil Services of India">civil servants</a> from the sixth course.<sup id="cite_ref-PIB_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PIB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>DSSC has been affiliated to <a href="/wiki/Madras_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Madras University">Madras University</a> for the award of <a href="/wiki/M.Sc." class="mw-redirect" title="M.Sc.">M.Sc.</a> degree in 'Defence and Strategic Studies' and recognized as a research centre for <a href="/wiki/MPhil" class="mw-redirect" title="MPhil">MPhil</a> and <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a> degrees since 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-TIMELINE_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TIMELINE-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Crest_and_motto">Crest and motto</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defence_Services_Staff_College&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Crest and motto"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_of_India_-_1998_-_Colnect_161855_-_Defence_Services_Staff_College.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Stamp_of_India_-_1998_-_Colnect_161855_-_Defence_Services_Staff_College.jpeg/200px-Stamp_of_India_-_1998_-_Colnect_161855_-_Defence_Services_Staff_College.jpeg" decoding="async" width="200" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Stamp_of_India_-_1998_-_Colnect_161855_-_Defence_Services_Staff_College.jpeg 1.5x" data-file-width="222" data-file-height="251" /></a><figcaption>1998 postage stamp on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the college</figcaption></figure> <p>The Staff College when at Quetta adopted the crest of <a href="/wiki/Staff_College,_Camberley" title="Staff College, Camberley">Staff College, Camberley</a>, which was the 'Wise Owl' with the <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> motto <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Tam Marte Quam Minerva</i></span>. In 1964, Owl perched on crossed swords and the motto in <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa">Yuddham Pragya</i></span> was adopted.<sup id="cite_ref-PIB_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PIB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commandant">Commandant</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defence_Services_Staff_College&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Commandant"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Commandant_of_the_Defence_Services_Staff_College" title="Commandant of the Defence Services Staff College">Commandant of the Defence Services Staff College</a></div> <p>The commandant of the Defence Services Staff College is the head of the institution. The commandant is an army officer of the rank of <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_general" title="Lieutenant general">lieutenant general</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Organization_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Organization-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organisation">Organisation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defence_Services_Staff_College&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Organisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The commandant of the college is assisted by the chief instructors (CI) of the army, naval and air wings, all <a href="/wiki/Two-star_rank" class="mw-redirect" title="Two-star rank">two-star</a> appointments. The CIs are drawn from the respective services. The Incharge of the administrative wing (also a two-star appointment), and the brigadier general staff (BGS) also report into the commandant.<sup id="cite_ref-Organization_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Organization-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_alumni">Notable alumni</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defence_Services_Staff_College&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notable alumni"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Category:Defence_Services_Staff_College_alumni" title="Category:Defence Services Staff College alumni">Category:Defence Services Staff College alumni</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chiefs_of_Army_Staff">Chiefs of Army Staff</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defence_Services_Staff_College&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Chiefs of Army Staff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Field_Marshal_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Field Marshal (India)">Field Marshal</a> <a href="/wiki/Sam_Manekshaw" title="Sam Manekshaw">Sam Manekshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_(India)" title="General (India)">General</a> <a href="/wiki/P._P._Kumaramangalam" class="mw-redirect" title="P. P. Kumaramangalam">P. P. Kumaramangalam</a></li> <li>General Tapishwar Narain Raina</li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Om_Prakash_Malhotra" title="Om Prakash Malhotra">Om Prakash Malhotra</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Arun_Shridhar_Vaidya" title="Arun Shridhar Vaidya">Arun Shridhar Vaidya</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/K._V._Krishna_Rao" title="K. V. Krishna Rao">K. V. Krishna Rao</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Krishnaswamy_Sundarji" title="Krishnaswamy Sundarji">Krishnaswamy Sundarji</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Nath_Sharma" title="Vishwa Nath Sharma">Vishwa Nath Sharma</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Sunith_Francis_Rodrigues" title="Sunith Francis Rodrigues">Sunith Francis Rodrigues</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Bipin_Chandra_Joshi" title="Bipin Chandra Joshi">Bipin Chandra Joshi</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Shankar_Roychowdhury" title="Shankar Roychowdhury">Shankar Roychowdhury</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Ved_Prakash_Malik" title="Ved Prakash Malik">Ved Prakash Malik</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Sundararajan_Padmanabhan" title="Sundararajan Padmanabhan">Sundararajan Padmanabhan</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Nirmal_Chander_Vij" title="Nirmal Chander Vij">Nirmal Chander Vij</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Joginder_Jaswant_Singh" title="Joginder Jaswant Singh">J. J. Singh</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Deepak_Kapoor" title="Deepak Kapoor">Deepak Kapoor</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/V._K._Singh" title="V. K. Singh">V. K. Singh</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Bikram_Singh_(general)" title="Bikram Singh (general)">Bikram Singh</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Bipin_Rawat" title="Bipin Rawat">Bipin Rawat</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Manoj_Mukund_Naravane" title="Manoj Mukund Naravane">Manoj Mukund Naravane</a></li> <li>General <a href="/wiki/Manoj_Pande" title="Manoj Pande">Manoj Pande</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chiefs_of_Naval_Staff">Chiefs of Naval Staff</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Defence_Services_Staff_College&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Chiefs of Naval Staff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Admiral_(India)" title="Admiral (India)">Admiral</a> <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Lynsdale_Pereira" title="Ronald Lynsdale Pereira">Ronald Lynsdale Pereira</a></li> <li>Admiral <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Stanley_Dawson" title="Oscar Stanley Dawson">Oscar Stanley Dawson</a></li> <li>Admiral <a href="/wiki/Jayant_Ganpat_Nadkarni" title="Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni">Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni</a></li> <li>Admiral <a href="/wiki/Vishnu_Bhagwat" title="Vishnu Bhagwat">Vishnu Bhagwat</a></li> <li>Admiral <a href="/wiki/Sushil_Kumar_(admiral)" title="Sushil Kumar (admiral)">Sushil Kumar</a></li> <li>Admiral <a href="/wiki/Madhvendra_Singh" title="Madhvendra Singh">Madhvendra Singh</a></li> <li>Admiral <a href="/wiki/Arun_Prakash" title="Arun Prakash">Arun Prakash</a></li> <li>Admiral <a href="/wiki/Sureesh_Mehta" title="Sureesh Mehta">Sureesh Mehta</a></li> <li>Admiral <a href="/wiki/Robin_K._Dhowan" title="Robin K. Dhowan">Robin K. 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