Overview
- India’s top brass in Bengaluru, speaking Thursday at the two-day Ran Samvad, cast multi-domain warfare as a present necessity and said the forces are moving from doctrine to field-ready networks and shared data.
- Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit said more than 90% of the work to set up theatre commands is complete, describing a reorganization that will place tri-service formations under single operational leaders as early as next month.
- Dixit argued that true self-reliance means control of software, encryption, data standards and upgrade cycles, not just building hardware in India, because loss of control can cripple forces at critical moments.
- Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi called Operation Sindoor a defining proof of real-time integration and said it spurred new information-war institutions, including a Psychological Defence Division and an information warfare organisation, after 15% of the campaign effort went to countering disinformation and gaps surfaced in friend-or-foe identification and jamming.
- Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi said it is too early to draw firm lessons from the US–Israel–Iran fighting, though the services are monitoring it around the clock to study what works and what fails across domains.