Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), General Manoj Pande on Saturday said technology is driving geopolitics like never before and emerging as a new strategic arena of geopolitical competition.
The Chanakya Defence Dialogue 2023, a two-day groundbreaking event steered by the Indian Army in collaboration with the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), concluded on Saturday with takeaways on security challenges in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
The Vice President, while addressing the Chanakya Defence Dialogue-2023 at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi, said that there is a need to seek peace at all costs - through ideation, advocacy, outreach, persuasion and dialogue - as also through strength.
"To give a fillip to our defence cooperation outreach, we are establishing Defence Wings at new locations across the world. Our national resolve to achieve self-reliance in defence hardware is also being enabled by a resurgent Indian defence Industry," he added.
He said, "Self-reliance is one of the key lessons in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and we have done well there. The lesson from the Russia-Ukraine conflict is that land will continue to be a key domain of warfare where you have contested borders, as in our case. The victory markers will hav
Seeking to start a forum for discussion on important security matters, the Indian Army is planning to start a dialogue series named the Chanakya Defence Dialogue.