COLLEGE OF DEFENCE MANAGEMENT
COLLEGE OF DEFENCE MANAGEMENT College of Defence Management (CDM) is a premier tri-service institution imparting management training to officers of the Defence Services. The CDM is entrusted with the responsibility of instilling contemporary management thoughts, concepts and practices in the senior leadership of the three Services. The need to set up a college specializing in imparting scientific management training was felt sometime after the Indo-Pak war of 1965. The complexities of modern combat, the high lethality and velocity of battle, large size of the Indian Armed Forces, their deployment in far flung areas, high cost of equipment, limited resources, socio-economic changes; all necessitated military commanders to be exposed to modern management concepts and techniques to enable them to operate in an effective and optimal manner. This felt need of Services gave birth to the Institute of Defence Management - IDM, at Secunderabad in December 1970. Brigadier