Overview

• Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan will open the seminar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will deliver the final-day plenary, with the CDS urging a unified, swift and decisive response to future conflicts.
• Curated by HQ Integrated Defence Staff and the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies with Army Training Command, the two-day event runs August 26–27 at the Army War College in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh.
• Sessions are led by serving officers sharing first-hand operational insights, with discussions spanning information warfare, grey-zone threats, integrated operations and future combat technologies.
• Top leadership from the Army, Navy and Air Force is expected alongside defence industry figures, experts and foreign defence attaches.
• Three joint doctrines on multi-domain operations, Special Forces operations, and airborne and heliborne operations are slated for release alongside the Technology Perspective & Capability Roadmap.