India's legacy challenges of unsettled borders will continue to engage us: Gen Pande
Army Staff Gen Manoj Pande on Saturday said that India's «legacy challenges» of unsettled borders will continue to engage the nation and stressed that the ability to correctly assess future threats remains pivotal to the country's strategic planning and preparedness. The top general was delivering a keynote address at the Indian Institute of Management Nagpur, said a release shared by the defence PRO.
Increasing weaponisation of space poses significant challenges to the security of space assets, he said.
Highlighting the challenges arising out of the cyber domain, he cited the CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) annual report of 2022 and said that there were nearly 14 lakh cases of website intrusion, malware propagation, malicious code, phishing, distributed denial of service attacks, ransomware attacks and data breach attempts in one year.
Technological advances in the electromagnetic spectrum could impact military operations, intelligence gathering and civilian infrastructure reliant on electromagnetic waves, he said.
«Information domain too is becoming increasingly complex with 'narrative shaping' and 'cognitive dominance' as an integral part of conflict prosecution,» said Gen Pande.
He also talked about «grey zone» pursuits by India's adversaries.
«We already are witness to manifestations of disinformation campaigns, cyberattacks, selective historical referencing, cartographic manipulation, leveraging politico-economic heft and increasing military footprints in our neighbourhood, and fanning religious radicalization as part of proxy war pursuits,» said the Chief of Army Staff.
