How Come Iran’s Air Defences Succumbed on 26 Oct 2024? A Brief Analysis
Icon-download It is now history that in the wee hours of the night 25-26 Oct 2024 some 100+ front-line fighter aircrafts comprising of F35 Lightening II (Adir) stealth air superiority fighters, F 15I R’aam ground attack aircrafts and F16I Soufa multirole fighters struck some 20 Iranian military targets. Most conspicuously, Israel claimed that it had […]
Technology Driven Multi Domain Operations (MDO) for Joint Warfighting
Icon-download “It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage, therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.” —Alan Turing Abstract MDO converges effects […]
Multi Domain Operations: Creating Capability Overmatch
Icon-download Abstract Multi-domain operations (MDO) encompass the synchronized employment of land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace capabilities to achieve strategic and operational objectives. It involves a holistic approach to warfare, integrating different domains to create a unified and synergistic effect. MDO emphasizes the interconnectedness of these domains, recognizing that adversaries can operate across multiple environments. […]
Information Dominance: Key Enabler in Multi Domain Operations
Icon-download Abstract Various erstwhile domains which were isolated but contributing to national power have been synergised through Information Domain. This has resulted in a paradigm conceptual shift with emergence of concepts like MDO and its contribution to CNP. The paper attempts a full spectrum understanding of information domain i.e. what all does it encompass, impact […]
Data: The New Munition for Joint Warfare
Icon-download Abstract Sometimes, existing technologies converge, mutate, or get creatively applied on battlefields to create a unique winning concoction. The fusion of big volumes of digital data and its assured transmission through battle networks is a crucial element of the modern battlefield. The side that manages it better, wins. Many emerging military technologies have data […]
Fusion of Niche Technology in BRO Works to Support Joint War Fighting
Icon-download Abstract The geopolitical global landscape is transforming rapidly due to increasing tensions in Eastern Europe and Middle East. Sooner or later it is certainly going to spread eastward to South China Sea thereby activating Indian Ocean as future hotspot for China and United States jostling in the power game. India has to gear up […]
Impact of Niche Technologies on Joint Warfighting
Icon-download Abstract Since times immemorial, technology has permeated warfighting and has shaped the conduct as well as the outcome of wars. This paper aims to bring out some of the niche technologies which could have an impact on joint warfighting. Based on a review of the literature, the paper has adopted a framework of first […]
Chinese Border Settlements Opposite India: What Lies Ahead
Icon-download Chinese Border Settlements (CBS) commonly known as Model Villages/ Xiaokang (moderately prosperous) Villages are the group housing schemes being developed by the Communist Party of China (CPC) for community living all along its border areas specially in the areas of TAR (Tibet Autonomous Region) opposite India. Though the nomenclature in vogue is CBS however, […]
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Enhancing Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaisance (ISR) Capabilities during Peace and Conflict
Icon-download Introduction There is no denying the fact that post COVID world has been taken by the AI storm. Not a single day passes wherein, AI and its associated technologies are not in the news – for positive or negative reasons alike. Be it the traditionalists calling for control over AI and highlighting ethical and […]
Take Aways from PLA’s Pursuit of Jointness in Logistics
Icon-download The knowledge gained on PLA logistics helps to understand the capabilities of our Northern neighbour better and makes feasible an appreciation of the competitive advantage the potential adversary may enjoy in combat. Besides aforesaid, the study of PLA logistics affords a very good opportunity to track the trajectory a military, somewhat comparable to ours […]
