Warfare

Upgraded BrahMos with 500-kilometre range ready; India becomes only country to integrate long-range missiles into fighter jets

The upgraded version of the homegrown BrahMos missile with an enhanced range of up to 500 km is ready, the CEO of BrahMos Aerospace, Sudhir Kumar Mishra, has said

Sundar Pichai accused of meeting Pentagon officials over an AI drone system

Google had decided not to renew the project with the US Defence Department after it expires in 2019.

Mohan Bhagwat's idea of combat is primal: Modern warfare is about technology, not bloodshed and martyrs

The next modern war between two major nations will be as different from the Iraq war of 2003 as the Iraq war was from the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

Bipin Rawat warns of two-front war with China and Pakistan: India must be vigilant and upgrade its defences at the earliest

Delivering the keynote address at a seminar on Future Contours and Trends in Warfare, at New Delhi on 6 September, army chief General Bipin Rawat categorically stated that despite nuclear deterrence, the possibility of a war on two fronts cannot be ruled out.

Days after Modi-Xi meeting, Army chief says China is encroaching territory: Bipin Rawat warns of two-front war

India should be prepared for a two-front war, Army chief Bipin Rawat said on Wednesday, adding that the threat of conflict was real on both western and northern borders, and deterrence in form of nuclear bombs or military power may not actually stop it.

Information Dominance Assumes Significance In Warfare

ICT has become the DNA of modern day warfare, making the development of appropriate technology to ensure information dominance over the adversary a very pertinent issue for India's armed forces.

Lt Gen Bipin Rawat as army chief: Strategic vision, not tactical achievements may have swung decision

Let us hope that Lt. Gen Bipin Rawat has been rewarded by the Modi government for his “strategic” leadership (or its assessment that the new chief will provide such a leadership) attributes, not necessarily for his “tactical” achievements in Kashmir, the China-borders and dealing with counterinsurgencies

Yahoo security breach shows how hackers are using data for information warfare

The 2013 hack affecting a billion Yahoo users shows how seemingly innocuous bits of data gleaned from cyber attacks can be exploited for espionage and information warfare, as well as for profit.

Nagrota attack: Let’s make mobile commando units the arrowhead of army ops

The suicide attacks at Nagrota and at Samba on Tuesday morning highlighted the urgency of reorienting war tactics radically

'Machines can't make life & death decisions': Nobel laureate Jody Williams on new-age weapons

Jody Williams speaks of why some countries object to these weapons, her expectations from the meetings and why LAWS could change the way wars are fought.