A few months ago, I had written an article advocating reform of the organisational structure responsible for training in the Indian Navy titled “Reconstituting the Education Branch” . Quite predictably, the Education Branch has seen this as the declaration of a turf war and has tried to justify the reasons for it’s existence thereby completely missing the point that training in the Indian Navy is actually conducted by the different professional branches ( Executive, Engineering, Electrical, Logistics, Submarine, Aviation, etc.) and not by the Education Branch. This is achieved through instructors from respective professional branches being appointed to various institutes, establishments, colleges and training schools like the Naval Institute of Aeronautical Technology, INS Valsura, INS Shivaji, INS Dronacharya, Signal School, ND School, ASW School, etc., for durations usually ranging from two...