Mumbai: India is watching the trailer of future conflicts and its adversaries will continue with efforts to achieve their strategic goals, Army Chief General MM Naravane said on Thursday, referring to the national security challenges posed by China and Pakistan.
In an address at an online seminar, he said India is facing “unique, substantial and multi-domain” security challenges and developments on the northern borders have adequately underscored the need for ready and capable forces.
“We are watching trailers for future conflicts. These are being implemented daily in information battlefields, networks and cyberspace. They are also being played along unsettled and active borders,” he said.
“Now it is up to us to imagine the battlefield of tomorrow based on these trailers. If you look around you will know the reality of today,” he said.
The Army Chief said that the developments on the northern borders have adequately underlined the need for ready and capable forces with an optimum component of footwear on the ground backed by modern technology to uphold the sovereignty and integrity of the country.
“Our adversary will continue its efforts to achieve its strategic goals by using gray zone activities in the political, military and economic spheres of conflict, and to do so in a collusive manner,” he said.
“The events of 2020 have been a testimony to the diversity of security threats across all domains and have drawn attention to non-contact and gray zone warfare. We need to enhance capabilities in both non-contact and contact mode of warfare,” he said, referring to the face-off in eastern Ladakh.
He also said that the process of integration through theatricalisation of the three services under a time-bound plan is already progressing and the Indian Army is fully committed to this transformation.
Gen Naravane said the Army is focusing on restructuring, rebalancing and restructuring its forces and the process has already been initiated.
“We are further consolidating our operational experiences to these changes and this shall remain a work in progress,” he added.
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