‘Military in future will need info-tech-scholar warriors’

 

 

 

ASSERTING that Operation Sindoor “still continues”, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Friday said the country’s military preparedness must remain at a “very high” level, round-the-clock and throughout the year. In his keynote address at a defence seminar hosted at Subroto Park here, he also said the military in future will also need “information warriors, technology warriors and scholar warriors.” And, in an emerging landscape of warfare, a future soldier will need to be a mix of all three “info, tech and scholar warriors,” the CDS said. The seminar on ‘Aerospace Power: Preserving India’s Sovereignty and Furthering National Interests’ was held under the aegis of the ‘No.4 Warfare and Aerospace Strategy Programme’.

 

The CDS said there are no runners-up in a war, and any military must be constantly alert and maintain a high degree of operational preparedness. “An example is Operation Sindoor, which still continues. Our preparedness level has to be very high, 24x7, 365 days (a year),” Gen Chauhan said. The CDS also emphasised the importance of learning about both ‘Shastra’ (warfare) and ‘Shaastra’ (knowledge system). Gen Chauhan defined a scholar warrior as a military professional who combines intellectual depth and combat skills, who possesses strong academic knowledge and practical military expertise that enable him to analyse complex situations and address “diverse challenges to meet military aims and objectives”.