New Delhi: Indian Army Chief General M M Naravane on Thursday said that India has already witnessed the trailers of future conflicts.
He said India faces “unique, substantial and multi-domain challenges” and “disputed borders with nuclear neighbours”, The Indian Express reported.
“We are already witnessing trailers of future conflicts. They are being enacted daily on the information battlefield, in the networks and cyberspace. They are also being played along with our yet unsettled and active borders. It is for us to visualize, the battlefield contours of tomorrow, based on these trailers,” Naravane said at the Pragyan Conclave organised by the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) think tank.
The theme of the event was contours of future wars and countermeasures. Naravane said that the “creation of the Defence Space Agency, Defence Cyber Agency, and the Armed Forces Special Operations Division, are steps to synergise resources and expertise, and build integrated capabilities in these domains.”
He mentioned that restructuring, rebalancing and reorienting of the Indian forces have already been initiated, and added, “We are further consolidating, from our operational experiences to these changes, and this shall remain a work in progress.”
The report quoting the army chief said without naming any country that our “adversaries shall continue with their efforts, to achieve their strategic aims, short of conflict, by use of Grey Zone activities, in the political, military and economic domains, and do so in a collusive manner” and the events “in 2020 have been testimony, to the diversity of security threats in all domains, and this has brought the spotlight towards, non-contact and grey-zone warfare”.
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