Team Blitz India
Chief of the Army Staff, General Manoj Pande, has said that the Indian Army is committed to holistic transformation, ensuring a modern, agile, adaptive, technologyenabled and self-reliant future ready force.
Delivering the key note address at the 4th General Sundarji Memorial Lecture in New Delhi on April 30, Gen. Pande highlighted Gen. K Sundarji’s vision in the fields of digitisation of the battlefield, information warfare, technology infusion, conventional strategies and force structure, reflected in his book ‘Vision 2100’.
The lecture remembered the dynamic and visionary Gen. Sundarji, the 13th Chief of the Army Staff, who is also fondly called as the ‘Father of the Mechanised Infantry Regiment’. He was an accomplished soldier and a visionary known for his deep insights, strategic foresights into future warfare and security paradigms.
“The Indian Army is alive to the imperative of transformation, and it is with a progressive outlook, that we intend, to not only change, but to change at a good pace too. The holistic transformation of the Indian Army, that we put into effect two years ago, is part of our efforts to give shape to a modern, agile, adaptive, technology enabled and self-reliant future ready force”, he said.
“When we talk about digitisation of the battlefield, we are witness to a manifold increase in the lethality and accuracy of kinetic instruments and increased proliferation of technologies such as – Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Robotics, 3D printing and Nano-technology. Disruptive and dual use technologies and their proliferation at unprecedented scale – are transforming the character of modern wars,” said the Army Chief.
According to Gen Pande, “Warfare has transcended into new domains, such as Space, Cyber, Electromagnetic Spectrum and Information. Consequent to these developments, conventional force ratios, which were the measure of military strength and superiority in the past, stand blunted today.”
