India, Sept. 17 -- The need to enhance jointness and integration among the three services came into sharp focus on the concluding day of the Combined Commanders' Conference (CCC) 2025 in Kolkata during a session chaired by chief of defence staff general Anil Chauhan, against the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi instructing the defence ministry to take swift and concrete measures to bolster greater jointness in the military to meet challenges of the future battlefield.

The discussion touched upon a raft of key aspects, including fostering interoperability in the armed forces, streamlining decision-making, and reforming institutional structures in the space, cyber, information, and special operations domains, the defence ministry s...