Chief of the Defence Staff of India, General Anil Chauhan, while speaking at a panel discussion at Raisina Dialogue 2023 on March 03, said that the biggest lesson India learnt from the Russia-Ukraine crisis is the need to be self-reliant. “The biggest lesson from this conflict is that we need to be self-reliant. We’ve just taken some baby steps actually, for past 2-3 yrs. A large number of initiatives taken by government and I think for these initiatives to succeed, the driving force would be the Services themselves.”