India leads the New Age Warfare

By R Anil Kumar

• India is at the forefront of new-age warfare, particularly in the realm of drone technology and hybrid warfare, according to reports. This shift involves using swarms of inexpensive, expendable drones for reconnaissance and strike missions, rather than relying solely on expensive, high-risk platforms. India is also developing capabilities to combat hybrid threats, which involve military and non-military elements like cyber warfare 

• India’s Strategic Superiority in Conventional Warfare gives us an edge over Pakistan

• World witnessing India as a clear leader of new age warfare as it thwarts Pakistan’s Nuclear Blackmail

New Delhi. The four-day military clash between India and Pakistan helped New Delhi establish its strategic superiority in conventional warfare over so called, Nuclear Pakistan.

When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his national address on the occasion of Buddha Poornima, made it clear to Islamabad that New Delhi will not tolerate any “Nuclear Blackmail”, it was based on India’s confidence of strategic advantage vis a vis Pakistan’s capability in the new hi-tech warfare era.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion was clear. India will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts breeding under the cover of this nuclear blackmail.

The assertion was based on Bharat’s own penetrative ability and Pakistan’s inability to repulse India’s counter offensive as evident in the heavy losses inflicted by the Indian armed forces on Pakistan’s strategic locations including key air bases.

When Prime Minister Modi said that Operation Sindoor has added a new dimension in our response to state sponsored terrorism from across the border, there was a reason for it.

India had displayed its capabilities in the deserts and mountains and also proved its superiority in New Age Warfare. “During this operation the credibility of our Made in India weapons were also proven. Today the world is witnessing that in 21^st century warfare the time has come for Made in India defence equipment”, said PM Modi.

New York Times in its report says that India not only penetrated Pakistan deep but thwarted their nefarious attempts to cross Indian borders by effectively neutralizing Pakistan’s air power using new era state-of-the-art air defence ecosystem, referring to Akashteer and S-400.

Alongside the war in the sky, India had to face the misinformation propaganda of Pakistan as the two sides parallelly fought an information war. When India started showing evidences of the strike, the world was forced to believe the Indian gains in the new age warfare.

The world also saw, how important it is for a nation to detect an enemy drone or missile using indigenous navigation systems and deploying interceptors from various locations effectively to drown the enemy projectiles.

Further in order to achieve edge over the enemy, the most important ability of a nation is to penetrate the enemy’s air defence and inflict heavy losses to their strategic locations deploying radar evading, low height and agile aerial vectors that are precise and have the ability to destroy the air bases, military installations and intended targets with accuracy. India could precisely do this on the intervening night of 9th & 10th May and the world had to believe it once the evidences were shared.

At Bholari air base, located less than 100 miles from the Pakistani port city of Karachi, Indian missiles struck an aircraft hangar with a precision strike. The visuals showed clear damage to what looks like a hangar. Another big strike was at the Nur Khan air base on the same night, that is within few kilometers of both Pakistani Army’s headquarters and the office of their Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Nur Khan airbase is also at a short distance from the unit that oversees and protects Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.

It was perhaps the most sensitive military target that India struck on that night.

Once this military feat was achieved, Indian leadership had a reason to come up with “No Blackmail” dimension in its nuclear doctrine.

“We will not tolerate nuclear blackmail. We have a state-of-the-art air defence system to protect us from enemy as well as proven destructive lethal power”, asserted PM Modi.

Pakistan had to issue a notice for Rahim Yar Khan airbase saying that the runway was not operational. It was an admission to the Indian claim that it had particularly targeted the runways and other facilities at some of Pakistan’s key air bases. Satellite images showed the damage. At Sargodha air base, in Punjab Province in Pakistan, the Indian military said it had used precision weapons to strike two sections of the runway.

On the other hand, Pakistan’s military listed two dozen Indian military installations and bases at which it inflicted losses that were never backed by evidences. Even satellite images available in open source are not corroborating the Pakistani claim.

PM Narendra Modi himself went to Adampur base to debunk the claim of damage there.

He also conveyed a strong message about Pakistan’s misinformation propaganda to the global defence experts and media across the world.

This four-day conflict was the “most expansive fighting” in half a century between two nuclear-armed countries.

In the new age warfare both countries used hundreds of drones and missiles to test each other’s air defences and deliver hits on enemy’s military facilities, with the skies lighting up night after night along the vast boundary dividing both the nations and deep inside their territories.

India caused heavy damage to Pakistan in the first three days itself, beyond Pakistan’s imagination.

PM Modi through his address made it clear to the global fraternity that “If a dialogue will happen with Pakistan, it will only happen on terrorism and PoK” while explaining the sequence of events leading upto the ceasefire agreement attributing India’s long-standing commitment to peace.

“That’s why after India’s aggressive action, Pakistan started looking for ways to escape. Pakistan was pleading to the world to ease tensions. And after suffering heavy losses, Pakistan’s army contacted our DGMO on the afternoon of 10th May. By then we had destroyed the infrastructure of terrorism on a large scale. The terrorists were eliminated.

We had destroyed the terror camps established in the heart of Pakistan. Therefore, when Pakistan appealed and said that it will not indulge in any sort of terror activities or military audacity further, India considered it,” said PM Modi.

“The path of peace also goes through power. Humanity should move towards peace and prosperity.

Every Indian should be able to live in peace, and can fulfil the dream of Viksit Bharat (Developed India).

For this, it is very necessary for India to be powerful. And it is also necessary to use this power when required. And in the last few days, India has done just that”.

Prime Minster Modi made it clear to the critiques around the world, the long-standing Indian position that terror and talk cannot go together.

Thus, the four-day conflict, between the two neighbours has clearly given a strategic advantage to India with life now coming back to normalcy at the borders.

After the conflict in which Indian armed forces proved ourself-defence and counter offensive capabilities we are now “more confident” about our abilities, Pakistan’s limitations and given our edge in conventional warfare, we will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail in the future too.

There are learning lessons for the world also from this 4-day Indo Pak conflict. The rise of India as a force after successfully integrating its “space know how”, “electronics” and “computing expertise using AI” to meet its defence needs in the form of an ultra-modern air defence system is for everyone to see.

India having its indigenous navigation systems, air defence ability to intercept enemy object through both hard and soft skill techniques and to have a deeper and precise penetration ability to strike strategic locations inside the enemy territory is getting reckoned with, the world over.

From detecting a radar picture of enemy object in the sky, or taking a strategic position to shoot it down from land, sea and air was demonstrated using AI cloud-based state of the art integrated air command and control systems.

Disinformation campaign of Pakistan inherently got punctured once evidences of India’s capabilities were made public for the world to see. Atmanirbhar Bharat and its strategic advantage in the conventional defence is thus making waves across the globe.

— (With inputs from Press Information Bureau)