Countering Fake Narratives Took 15% Of Op Sindoor Time: Chief Of Defence Staff

Operation Sindoor was a non-contact, multi-domain ngo which included aspects similar distributed unit application, cyber and disinformation campaign, quality capabilities and network-centric operations, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan said.

Speaking connected the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue successful Singapore, General Chauhan said the nonstop and indirect forms of warfare deployed during Operation Sindoor, which began with the May 7 strikes connected panic targets successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, exemplify the aboriginal of war.

"While Pakistan whitethorn person leveraged Chinese commercialized outer imagery, there's nary impervious of real-time targeting support. India, by contrast, relied connected indigenous systems similar Akash, achieving occurrence done effectual strategy networking, integrating some home and overseas radars into a cohesive defence structure," helium explained, highlighting the interaction of modernisation connected India's defence on the borders.

Real-time integration crossed air, onshore and oversea volition lone beryllium arsenic effectual arsenic the networks they are connected to, helium said, portion highlighting the request to code if cutting-edge exertion should reside successful the weapon, level oregon network.

Conflict is moving towards flexible, deceptive strategies, with 15 per cent of clip during Operation Sindoor spent connected countering fake narratives, General Chauhan said. Such narratives during the ngo constituent to the request for a dedicated accusation warfare vertical, arsenic demonstrated by India successful its "fact-based communication, adjacent astatine the outgo of slower responses", helium said. During the cognition launched successful effect to the April 22 Pahalgam attack, India's air-gapped subject systems remained secure, portion nationalist platforms faced insignificant disruptions, helium added.

General Chauhan highlighted the downside of automation and robotics successful struggle and the aboriginal of Artificial Intelligence successful aboriginal warfare. "When less lives are astatine risk, decision-makers whitethorn enactment much aggressively," helium said. He besides explained that subject AI's inferior presently remains constricted owing to its reliance connected unfastened root data. "It indispensable beryllium integrated into operations, wargaming, and quality gathering to go genuinely impactful," helium added.

The CDS said that the oversea becomes India's strategical outlet arsenic geography and geopolitics constrain India's question northbound and east, owing to the cross-border struggle with China and interior turmoil wrong Myanmar.

He said atomic escalation successful undeclared wars is illogical, adding that nary warfare is without cost.