In a bold and strategic statement, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan dismissed the importance of casualty figures, emphasizing India’s overwhelming victory in Operation Sindoor. Speaking in Pune, he compared India’s dominance to a Test match won by an innings defeat, saying, “There’s no need to count wickets when the victory is absolute.”
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00:00So, but this is what I said, you know, in Operation Sindhur also, war and politics was happening as a parallel kind of phenomenon, and it was being exercised also through communication, which I made a mention initially, both direct and indirect communication.
00:26So, second important conclusion that I draw from the statement, which has initially said that war is a continuation of policy by other means, is that war is a rational decision.
00:38That means, and I also spoke about reason when I said what government takes the rational decision about war, and this takes the decision when it is exhausted all its other instruments of power.
00:48So, but then the important question comes in, you know, this whole start point of this particular war was this Behelgan terror attack.
00:56So, is terrorism a rational act of warfare?
01:00I don't think that's a rational act because terrorism has no defined logic.
01:06It has no political military end state.
01:09Terrorism means, and then end it itself, terrorism or terrorism is a form of warfare that defines rationality.
01:16This is because the terrorist doesn't have anything to lose.
01:19He's a non-state actor.
01:20So, he doesn't have a state.
01:21So, if he doesn't have a state, he's not worried about territory, people or the ideology, which form the three important constituents of a state.
01:29So, this is, terrorism is absolutely irrational if it is happening in a standalone mode.
01:34But what happens when, you know, there's about state-sponsored terrorism?
01:39Is this rational?
01:40I think that, you know, this seems to be a rational decision when state is employing terrorism as an instrument to achieve political objectives.
01:49And, say like, so it's a reasoned kind of a decision the state takes.
01:55And so, as our adversary is concerned, he's taken the decision that to bleed India by a thousand cuts.
02:01And when I say that this has been a state policy, this I'm not saying.
02:05If you go and look at the literature on issues, you'll find Peter Char, Christian Fair, who have cited the former director of ISI,
02:15explicating this particular strategy as to how they will bleed India by a thousand cuts.
02:19And this particular doctrine is found in various studies in Pakistan Staff College, Quetta, etc.
02:24So, this is a normal talk which happens in Pakistan.
02:27And, of course, officially we know in 1965 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto declared a thousand-year war against India.
02:34When he addressed the United Nations Security Council.
02:37And probably Ziaul Haq gave form to this particular doctrine of a thousand-year war.
02:42And someone added a thousand cuts into it.
02:46And similar kind of venom was spewed by General Asim Munir against India and Hindus,
02:52just a few days or weeks before what happened in Pahalgam.
02:57So, since this is a recent decision, it can be also, I believe, retracted.
03:05Because now Pakistan is faced with a different kind of a prospect that he faces military action in case we find terror happening against us.
03:13And also, we said that we'll have water as well as, you know, this thing will not float together.
03:20So, we have kind of raised the bar.
03:24We have connected terror to water.
03:26And we have drawn out the new lines for military operations against terror.
03:34Sometimes I feel this particular policy also got exventuated after Pakistan acquired nuclear weapons.
03:41And they tried to exploit this stability-unstability paradox that nuclear weapons will provide stability,
03:48strategy stability between the two nations.
03:50And below that, this terrorism can contain.
03:54But, of course, what India has done now is between – there are now two red lines.
03:58Between these two red lines, it's opened up the space for conventional operations.
04:02So, that's a major change which has happened after Hindu.
04:05Let me talk about rationality once again in the context of Operation Bunyan al-Marsus.
04:12And which I said, you know, I've said once or twice earlier that in this whole business of war, warfare or use of force,
04:21the military people are the ones who are most rational because we understand that, you know, war and warfare is very, very unpredictable.
04:29And we also probably understand the consequences of war.
04:34So, that I think is important.
04:36So, although lost by Pakistan on 10th of May at about 1 a.m., its aim was to get down India to its knees in 48 hours.
04:45Multiple attacks were lost.
04:47And in some manner, they have escalated this conflict which we had actually hit only terrorist targets but also into the military domain.
04:57From their perspective, it would have been rational in the sense they would have said that you use military means to hit these targets.
05:04But it was also rational on their part, operation with the thought they'll continue for 48 hours, folded up in about eight hours on 10th.
05:12Then they picked up the telephone and said they wanted to talk.
05:15And I think that the rationale behind this coming, the realization coming in, stand from two facts.
05:22That one is they must have assumed that if they continued this mode, they're likely to lose much more.
05:28So, hence they picked up the telephone.
05:30And second thing, since they had stuck us at multiple fronts, they still did not have the benefit of understanding what they had stuck.
05:37So, they must have thought they must have stuck.
05:40And hence, it's time to talk now.
05:42And if they don't, they'll tend to lose both.
05:44So, these were the two factors which would have made them to take.
05:47But it's only after, say, one or two days, they would have realized that all their kind of attacks which they had not against us had not fortified.
05:56And they had all kind of failed.
05:58And so, I think this is what had happened.
06:01Second thing is, in and armed forces also demonstrated a lot of rationality.
06:09We had informed Pakistan on the day we had done these surgical strikes on 7th.
06:15We had done it till from 1, 1, 0, 5, that's 5, at about 1 o'clock to about 1.30.
06:22And after five minutes later, we had picked up the Director General of Military Operations to say that we have done this.
06:28And we have hit only terror targets.
06:31Military establishments have been out of the purview of the strikes.
06:34And we have ensured that there are no collateral damage, especially civilians.
06:38And we need to talk to each other.
06:40So, that was, I think, a rational decision.
06:42And subsequently, when there was a rhetoric from Pakistan, we also said that in case Pakistan hits us,
06:51his military establishments, we are going to hit them back, we'll hit them harder.
06:55And if they stop, we are going to stop.
06:57So, when Pakistan did ask for talks and de-escalation, we also, at some point of time, not immediately,
07:04at some point of time, I would say, did accept what they were saying.
07:08So, this is what I thought was the political part of war.
07:14And now I'll talk about the combat part of war.
07:18That's the second part, which I said, it had four constituents.
07:21That's the combatant, Yoda, the battlefield, combat zone, where the fight takes place.
07:27It talks about technology.
07:28And fourth is about tactics.
07:30So, these are the four things, I think, important part of warfare.
07:34So, combatants, actually, today, earlier, we all thought people in uniform, organized military forces are part of combat.
07:43But today, we have paramilitary forces, mercenaries, contractors, terrorists, Jihadis, private companies with technology.
07:52So, we had heard about long back about Wagner Group, similarly, Blackwater Groups.
07:58A lot of security companies provide armed security, mission support, and risk management services, not only to corporate houses, but also governments.
08:06So, it's not that combatants are only uniformed people paid for by the government.
08:12It's different.
08:13And today, combatants may also include citizens, neutral citizens, or nations, or netizens, rather.
08:19And they can take part, independently or otherwise, based on their support to any ideology in cyber warfare, psychological operations, media outreach, et cetera.
08:29So, the concept of this war will be only conducted by combatants, which are paid for the government, is getting diluted slowly.
08:38There are other players who are coming into fray.
08:41And second thing is this combat zone.
08:44This has expanded phenomenally.
08:46So, what we see that not only we have land, air, traditional domains, and maritime, but we also now have space, cyber, electromagnetic domain.
08:57A lot of activities took place, actually, between both of us were four days on the electromagnetic domain.
09:03Activities also took place in cyber domain.
09:06We also had a lot of activities in the domain of perception management, information war, or maybe you can call it cognitive warfare,
09:13in which the mindscape shaping the mind of the people is more important than the landscape, what happens on land, et cetera.
09:22We also saw the expansion of battlespace on the traditional domains.
09:26So, initially, you could see war and warfare, contact warfare, you know, within five or ten kilometers.
09:33Today, we expanded that battlespace phenomenally.
09:35Then we see the whole length and breadth of Pakistan.
09:38It could be under coverage of India's weapon systems, not for any other engine, but very, very deliberate precision strikes.
09:45Some strikes could be as narrow as two meters or three meters square, at ranges greater than, say, 300 kilometers.
09:52That's what has been demonstrated.
09:54So, what I said, combat, combatants, combat zone, these are the kind of changes which are taking place in the future.
10:01And I'll dwell upon now the most important part on technology, which I think is becoming very, very important.
10:09And the warfare today is at the cusp of, if I could say, a third revolution in military affairs.
10:16The first revolution in military affairs was something to do with manure warfare, which came about because of advances in ground mobility and air mobility.
10:24You could transport people faster.
10:27It also was there because of long ranges.
10:30The second revolution in military affairs was net-centric warfare, in which battlefield transparency, situational awareness, this became important.
10:40Information dominance became important.
10:43That came about by the U.S. armed forces because of advances in communication technology and computer technology and ICT.
10:51And today, we are at the cusp of third revolution in military affairs, which have termed as convergence warfare, because what we are seeing is not one technology,
11:03but there are a number of technologies which are affecting warfare presently and they'll happen in future.
11:09All of these are heralding a new change in warfare, which is bringing about a change which is disruptive and nonlinear.
11:17And it's actually occurring at a pace which is unprecedented.
11:21And these technologies range from sensor, advanced materials, propulsion, hypersonics, artificial intelligence, big data, advances in cyberspace, all of them.
11:32But what happens is generally we take all these advances in technology and consider them as one fact.
11:38What I will do is I'll try and identify four trends in these technologies to see where warfare is progressing further.
11:46So the first trend which I talk about is sensor technologies.
11:50And this is ushering in a new level of battlefield transparency and situational awareness in the field of warfare.
11:59You see, we have natural and man-made sensors. It's a competition between these two, if you have to say.
12:07So we are about eight billion people on this earth.
12:10So we have 16 billion eyes, actually, sensors. We are seeing each other.
12:15Today we may be having more than eight billion artificial ISR sensors operating.
12:20All of us having a mobile field, a mobile phone, which has got a camera, you've got a laptop, iPad, etc., which has got a sensor.
12:27There's a large number of cameras over here. There are sensors of this room, which are capturing those images.
12:33You go outside on this road, there are a number of sensors over here.
12:37There are sensors deployed in air. There are sensors deployed in space. There are sensors deployed under sea. There are sensors deployed them.
12:43So it's not only the range of sensors, but the deployment of sensors is much more than what natural way you can do it.
12:51It's also the type of sensor. We only had, say, five sensors, that is touch, hearing, smell, vision, and taste. That's all.
12:59But today the kind of sensors we have is seismic, chemical, biological, optical, SAR, infrared, ELINT, AIS, acoustics, ultrasonic, magnetic, electromagnetic, quantum, atomic, radio frequency.
13:14So we have overtaken nature, actually, in numbers, quality, deployment. What is this going to lead us to? This is going to lead us to absolute transparency.
13:25So today there cannot be anything like surprise in battlefields. It means everything is open.
13:31And the second thing I think today when we talk about if there is no surprise, then the only way you can do it is by deceiving them probably.
13:39We'll have to think of different kind of techniques in warfare.
13:44The second trend, I think, is related to speed, velocity. I call it celerity.
13:51And this segment is driven by advances in hypersonics, whether it is guide or cruise.
13:57We saw that BrahMos missile at 2.8 Mach. You can have today missiles at 10, 7, 8 Mach flying.
14:04We also have fractional orbital systems. Along with this, what's happening is stealth technologies are coming in.
14:12So it becomes very difficult to detect. In any case, you start having drones, which are very, very small, and you can have drones in swarms.
14:20So there are no radar systems, which are actually made to track large aircrafts, moving at a reasonable speed of 1 or 2 Mach.
14:27Then you have one-hand hypersonic weapons, which are following different kinds of trajectories.
14:31And on the other hand, you have drones, which are as small as this.
14:34And there are no radars which can actually track it. And then you can move it in swarms, et cetera.
14:41So what's happening is all this in combination, lower radar signatures, high speeds, and intelligent routing, et cetera,
14:51are making these kinds of threats invisible, inaudible, undetectable, enhanced, untargetable.
14:57We are kind of vulnerable everywhere.
15:00So on one end, we can see the range of this action.
15:05So what you're introducing is kind of non-linearity and ultimate, ultimate form of non-linearity.
15:11You can have a contact battle at one or two kilometers, and then you can have a battle which is being fought at 300 kilometers or 250 kilometers.
15:20So that's the kind of unlinearity. And with impunity, you can do it.
15:23Because it's very difficult for the opposition to actually devise a system to guard against it, or to hit against it,
15:29unless it's synchronized systems in a very, very effective kind of a manner.
15:35So it's, like I said, ultimate non-linearity and expansion of battle space.
15:40So it will also probably, maybe, we'll have to think of large platforms like large ships, tanks, et cetera,
15:48because these become very vulnerable. And your planning and preparation coordination for such kind of a defensive act
15:55will also require a lot of thought in future.
15:59We may have to require a layered kind of a resilient defenses in depth to guard against these kind of effects.
16:05The third important trend which I see is something to do with robotics and automation.
16:11And this includes unmanned systems, automated, autonomous systems, along with, now you have manned and unmanned only.
16:27You'll have one manned aircraft with operating two or three unmanned aircrafts along the list.
16:31One manned tank with two, three unmanned kind of things, operating in a collaborative kind of an environment.
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