General’s F grade for women commanding officers

Lack of empathy, a misplaced sense of entitlement, an exaggerated tendency to complain at the drop of a hat—and more. A three-star general’s letter in the name of a “pragmatic performance analysis” is a damning indictment of the leadership of eight women commanding officers who were then a part of corps headquarters.

The five-page letter by corps commander Lt Gen Rajeev Puri to Eastern Army Commander Lt Gen Ram Chander Tiwari lists seven subheads of problematic areas relating to women commanding officers (COs).

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