The current and future warfare is no longer confined to the battlefields of land, sea, and air. It is evolving into a multi-domain contest, where power is projected and contested simultaneously across physical, digital, and psychological spaces. Acknowledging this fact, former Indian Army chief Gen J.J. Singh (retd) recently claimed that the Indian armed forces are preparing to "fight and win the next war."
Interacting with PTI Videos on the sidelines of an event, he was asked how the Indian Army should prepare itself for future warfare, given the backdrop of the current volatile geopolitical situation.
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"I can certainly say that the Indian Army is preparing for the next war... And that war is probably going to start from the space," he said, adding, "We have to get our space architecture in place, which the country is in the process of doing."
The armed forces are preparing to fight and win the next war, he said, and added that it will be a multi-domain warfare which would involve land, air, sea, space, cyberspace and also the cognition domain.
"So we are preparing for that," Gen Singh said, according to news agency PTI.
The former Army chief was the chief guest at the launch of a book, 'Navigating the Geopolitical Churning: India's Defence and Security Challenge', which is a compilation of articles contributed by multiple defence and strategic affairs experts.