Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday that in the era of “gray zones” and hybrid wars, cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns, there are tools to achieve politician’s objectives.
Singh said that ongoing conflicts and current trends emphasize the fact that traditional ideas of war are rewritten. Singh said it at his address at the ceremonial convening of the Staff College defense service (DSSC).
“The ongoing conflicts and current trends emphasize the fact that traditional ideas of the war are rewritten. The emerging technologies affect the character of war with unmanned systems and the arrival of forecasts AI, the era of autonomous war.
DSSC is an institution of the Defense Service of the Ministry of Defense, the Indian government in Wellington, Tamil Nadu. It trains officers of all three Indian armed forces services – Indian armies, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force – selected officers from paramilitary forces and state services and officers from friendly foreign countries to appoint command and employees.
Conflict of Ukraine-Russia
For example, drones, Singh said, appeared in the conflict of Ukraine-Russian, practically as a new arm, if not transformation science. Most of the losses of soldiers and equipment were not attributed to traditional artillery or armor, but drones, he said.
“Cosmic capacities in the low orbit of the Earth, similarly, transform military intelligence, persistent supervision, location, targeting and communication – and thus fight a new high height.
Singh said at his address that the armed forces would increasingly need together in an environment with multiple domains, where cyber, spatial and information wars will be as strong as conventional operations.
“We are at the age of the gray zone and hybrid wars, where cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns and economic wars have become instruments that can prosecute and achieve politician-military targets without a single shot,” he said.
HYbrid War is a mixture of conventional and unconventional methods used against a much stronger opponent to achieve political goals that would not be possible with the traditional war.
India and in this respect are facing a variety of security challenges, he said.
“In our case, we face persistent threats along our northern and western borders. This is further enhanced by the threat of the proxy war and terrorism based on the epicenter of terrorism in our neighborhood,” he added.
We are at the age of the gray zone and hybrid wars, where cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns and economic wars have become instruments that can prosecute and achieve politician-military targets without a single shot.
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