The Mixed Commanders Convention (CCC) will meet in Bhopal from March 30 to April 1 and focus on ways, selection of {hardware} tools, and the way forward for warfare, officers accustomed to the matter stated. The assembly is important as a result of it’s taking place towards the backdrop of the continued battle in Ukraine and the navy stand-off in East Ladakh.
The officers added that the three-day premier navy brainstorming occasion will see Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the commander in chiefs of all three providers on the third day, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh additionally taking part within the occasion.
The final CCC was held in Kevadia in Gujarat in March 2021. This version of CCC was scheduled to happen in Karwar in Karnataka in early March however the venue was subsequently shifted to Bhopal.
Whereas the navy commanders will focus on points comparable to bettering the novel Agnipath-Agniveer scheme, the subject of future wars would be the central theme of the convention with the year-long Ukraine battle revealing the significance of stand-off weapons comparable to missiles, long-range artillery and rockets, and armed drones in a protracted drawn out battle. Regardless of Russia commanding an enormous navy superiority over Ukraine, the latter has been in a position to push again a former superpower with the usage of shoulder-fired anti-tank guided missiles, multi-barrel rocket launchers and long-range artillery.
That armed drones are the way in which to battle future wars has grow to be amply clear from conflicts in Azerbaijan-Armenia and Russia-Ukraine battle with Azerbaijan utilizing Turkish drones towards Armenian armour and Russia utilizing Iranian-armed drones towards Ukrainian armour and troops. Whereas India’s key adversaries within the north and west have Chinese language armed drone Wing Loong II of their arsenal, the nation continues to be to catch up in armed drone expertise as its navy makes use of drones basically for reconnaissance and surveillance functions.
One other possible matter of debate is the use and influence of social media as a part of data warfare towards an adversary. In the present day, a complicated adversary makes use of social media to unfold disinformation towards its enemy aside from utilizing these expertise platforms to unfold disaffection, radicalization, and chaos within the opposition camp. Info warfare is a key software of the Chinese language PLA and together with cyber-attacks has been a part of the hybrid warfare being practiced by Beijing prior to now decade. Social media is just not solely a software to know the enemy but additionally to create confusion via sympathizers inside the opposition camp. The Pakistani navy and deep state are effectively versed with the method to unfold a false narrative within the enemy camp and have examined this repeatedly in India via their agent provocateurs, analysts stated.
The navy commanders are additionally anticipated to take inventory of the state of affairs on the borders as effectively within the Indo-Pacific with India having to guard practically 7500 km of shoreline aside from island territories.