HIGH ALTITUDE WARFARE SCHOOL

HIGH ALTITUDE WARFARE SCHOOL

The High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) is a training and research establishment of the Indian Army. It trains Indian Army personnel in high altitude mountain warfare and develops ideas and techniques for fighting in such difficult terrain. It is the one of the best mountain warfare training schools in the world. The school was established in December 1948. During the winter of 1949-50, the school was redesignated as a Command Establishment and renamed as the Winter Warfare School. On April 8, 1962, it was upgraded to a Category A Training Establishment and adopted its current name. Its blue colour emblem has a pick axe and a rifle crossed in front of a snow clad mountain.