Overview
- The Army Chief called for harnessing unmanned systems and data to shape future operations across multiple domains.
- He urged development of battlefield equalisers to offset adversary advantages and sustain operational edge through adaptation and innovation.
- Officers were told to treat change management as essential and to cultivate creative, critical, systems, cognitive and imaginative thinking.
- Dwivedi highlighted the need to integrate all five generations of warfare and to build force-wide fluency in grey-zone threats.
- As part of organizational reforms, he emphasized empowering JCOs to bridge officer shortages and noted new formations such as the Bhairav Battalion and a Special Operations Forces Brigade.