Making a push for self-reliance, Army Chief General Manoj Pande stated that unprecedented adjustments are happening within the geopolitical panorama and the nation’s defence should hold evolving to maintain up with the altering battle area. At NDTV’s maiden Defence Summit, General Pande stated that non-state actors are “increasingly gaining access” to trendy navy applied sciences.

This pattern, he defined, has led to an increase in risk-taking habits and a decrease threshold for the initiation of armed conflicts.

“The fallout is an increased propensity in risk-taking behavior and low threshold for initiation of armed conflicts,” General Pande said, acknowledging the challenges posed by the altering dynamics in trendy warfare.

“Amidst all of above, the legacy challenges of unsettled borders continue. Newer threats in the conflict spectrum have added to the complexities,” he stated.

The Army chief stated that “grey zone actions and aggression by our adversaries is manifesting across multiple domains including the military i.e. on land, air and maritime space”.

Consequent to all these developments, the battle area has turn out to be extra “complex, contested and lethal and shall remain so in the future”, General Pande stated.

He highlighted how warfare has diversified into new domains, together with cyber, electromagnetic spectrum, info, and area. General Pande stated that the Indian Army is engaged on adapting to keep up a aggressive edge as battlegrounds bear a paradigm shift in trendy warfare.

“Amidst this complicated canvas that I just described, our nation continues to rise. As a nation, we have envisioned, and taken up the resolve to emerge as a developed nation when we celebrate our centenary milestone,” he stated.

India has set the imaginative and prescient of turning into a developed a nation by 2047 when it completes 100 years since independence.

“The aspirations of rising India shall span across expanding strategic horizons. The foremost implications for us therefore is to ensure that the nation’s security is not impacted in any way so that the progress continues unabated,” General Pande stated.

“We are working on 45 niche technologies and 120 indigenous projects which have implications for the military. The Indian Army’s vision is to transform into a modern, agile, adaptive, technology enabled, future-ready force capable to deter and win wars in a multi-domain operational environment to protect our national interest,” he stated.