RUMINATIONS ON REINTEGRATION OF MECHANISED FORCES “ The mechanised forces, with their inherent potential to shift the battlefield centre of gravity by their very presence, are the decisive arm in land battle, from the high altitude plateaus down to the plains, deserts, and the littoral regions. ” – Col RS Sidhu Backdrop The Directorate General Mechanised Forces (DGMF) was established in 1986 by amalgamating the Directorate of Armoured Corps and the Mechanised Infantry Regiment, newly raised in 1979, after detaching the latter from the Directorate General of Infantry. Incidentally, the decision of 1979 to amalgamate the Mechanised Infantry battalions into a new Regiment was vehemently opposed by both the Corps of Infantry and the Armoured Corps . This opposition led to several attempts to disband the Regiment in the first two decades of its existence. Reversion of battalions to erstwhile parent regiments, reassigning ICVs to ASC transport battalions with perm...